Fitbloggin’ 2012 Day 4 – Sunday, the last day
It came to my attention during Fitbloggin’ that the intent was to provide a variety of workout opportunities so that attendees could pick and choose what they wanted to participate in. For some reason I never even considered not doing all of the workouts (well, beforehand I never considered it…at 5:30 a.m. Friday morning I was definitely considering it). I saw the conference as an opportunity to try a bunch of new things, as well as to get some quality excessercising in while on vacation. Luckily, Maggie totally agreed with me on this and she wouldn’t even let me whine much when we had to get up early to head to a work out. I think that those of us that did all six workouts and the 5K should have gotten some sort of medal. Maggie backs me up on this, although Fitbloggin’ didn’t respond to her tweet.
https://twitter.com/maggiemight/status/249530530595495936
In any event we did get up on Sunday morning for the 5K. The pre-dawn view from our hotel room:
And here it is using the fancy panorama creator on my camera:
(click here to see it much larger)
Maggie looks thrilled and I look demented:
All the die-hard 1 mile/5K’rs:
We walked en masse across Light Street to the harbor walk…
and took off after a count down.
I walked the 5K route and used it as a sight-seeing opportunity. I took tons of photos.
I’m not going to lie. My hip was pretty unhappy with all of the weekend’s back to back workouts and lots of walking already. But I felt okay to walk a 5K.
The cool Baltimore morning felt wonderful. In my hoody, I got warm in the sunny spots, but was perfectly comfortable whenever in the shade. Walking at any hour day or night in Florida would definitely not require a jacket at this point. We had fabulous weather for Fitbloggin’.
Soon we turned away from the waterfront and made a u-turn near the half-way point.
We walked past this diner that was cooking bacon and I really wanted to stop and get some bacon to take back to the Hyatt.
I was pretty sure we weren’t going to be having bacon at the Fitbloggin’ final breakfast.
As we turned onto Charles Street to head back towards the hotel I felt like I had stepped into an episode of The Wire.
Or possibly The Corner, which was also a David Simon creation based on his time in Baltimore. Chad and I both read his book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets while in law school. We were assured that the route was safe, but dang, this looked just like The Corner.
The Reebok representative who was leading the 5K looped back past me, checking on all of us walking stragglers to make sure no one was left behind. He ended up coming back to me and we walked the last half mile or so together, talking about our children, of course. It was a beautiful morning walk and I was so glad to get to see some more of Baltimore.
Post 5K breakfast (as predicted, no bacon):
After breakfast I sadly lounged around sighing loudly while Maggie packed. Her flight home was earlier than mine. I didn’t torture her with more pictures, but there was sadness. It was hard to say goodbye to her and let her fly off to the other side of the country.
https://twitter.com/maggiemight/status/249913517375881216
After Maggie left I got all showered and packed up myself. I left my luggage with the concierge and set off on my own to explore just a little more in search of lunch.
Just as I was walking away from the hotel I ran into Cynthia (It All Changes) again and had to get one last photo with her.
Then I walked all over the Federal Hill neighborhood, starting with the harbor walk again. There was some sort of charity walk/run going on.
Lots of dogs.
I used Yelp’s “monacle” feature on the mobile app while walking around and looking at restaurants.
I passed a comics store that made me miss the boys.
About that time my friend Christie O. texted and said she and a couple of ladies were heading to lunch if I wanted to join them, so I hurried back to the hotel and the four of us walked to Pizzeria Uno on the harbor.
(Jessica of Sweat is my Sanity and Thea of It’s Me vs. Me)
(Christie of Average Moms Wear Capes and me)
I ordered the eggplant, spinach, and feta half pizza.
It was delicious.
Thanks to Jessica for this awesome picture of Christie, me, and Thea:
Well that’s it. That’s all the photos I took at Fitbloggin’ 2012. After lunch I returned to the hotel, soon boarded my super shuttle to the airport, and was shortly on my flight back to St. Pete. It was a jam-packed, exhausting, fun weekend.Thanks to the organizers, all the awesome people I met, and my room soul mate Maggie for making it so wonderful. Fitbloggin’ 2013 will be in Portland next June. It’s on the radar.
https://twitter.com/maggiemight/status/249289554467622912
I’ve pretty much taken Monday and Tuesday off of life, other than the necessities like feeding, clothing, and carting my children. Now it’s back to reality.
Cya.
Click here for my post about Fitbloggin’ Day 1 (Thursday)
You look so pretty in those last two pictures at lunch!!
Thank you so much!
Great travel log of Baltimore. You should get a prize from their Chamber of Commerce. Glad you had so much fun. MOM
Finally caught up on these posts. That looks like an awesome conference! Glad you had such a good time and thanks for a great recap of it all!
Thanks Tori! I keep thinking about you and Beth Shaw. I’m so excited for you guys going to August this weekend!!!!
Love the pictures from the 5K! Sounds like a really fun weekend
Caroline I’m gutted I didn’t get to chat to you, every time I looked over you were deep in conversation. Looks like you had a fab time and impressed by your complete set of workouts
Thank you Shauna! I am embarrassed to admit that I was too intimidated to talk to you. I know that’s ridiculous, but you also always seemed to be talking with friends whenever I spied you. I loved your book and was a huge “Two Fit Chicks” fan. You are fabulous. Thank you so much for commenting on my blog! (p.s. I was also too intimidated to talk to Carla, haha) There were so many people there and I regret that I didn’t get to connect with everyone. There’s always next year!
Your pictures of Baltimore make me want to visit. I love jacket weather especially in the fall which means I need to find excuses to travel more to other places so that I can enjoy that kind of weather. Thank you so much for the recaps. I enjoyed them all.
It was beautiful, but I would have liked it to be even cooler. At least it was cool in the evenings, unlike here. I’m so sick of summer!
That is so hilarious that you thought you had to do all the workouts. I am totally with you about getting the most out of the event though. I would have totally been on board with doing as much as possible. How did you hear about the event in the first place.
It is organized by Roni Noone and I have been following her blog for several years (used to be Roni’s Weigh, now it’s called Just Roni). This was the third year for Fitbloggin’, and last year I was so jealous that I was determined to go this year.
I think that is something I would like to do also. i am going to have to look into it. Thanks.