Tough Workouts, Beach, & Happy Hour

Hey everyone! How’s your weekend going??

Did you check out those Bamango Muffins from earlier? Seriously, they look incredible, don’t they???

Well, so far, today has been a great day down here in VA Beach! Jay and I decided to start our day off on the right foot by hitting up the fitness center located within our hotel. When I saw that they had one, I really got excited, so this morning, we made our way down to check out what it was all about.

Wow, talk about a “fitness center.” Not exactly a whole lot of variety, but at least they had something, and lucky for us, the place was empty so we were able to have our pick of machines.

Seeing as though we’re on vacation and umm, well, didn’t feel like spending our whole morning in the “gym,” we decided to each do 15-20 minutes on the treadmill and elliptical and call it a day.

I ended up doing 20 mins of intervals on the treadmill, alternating 1 minute @ 8.0mph and 1 minute @ 4.5mph. On the elliptical, I finished up with 15 minutes using the interval program, alternating forward and backward every 4 minutes.

The two of us finished feeling strong!

Actually, that’s a total lie. The both of us agreed that it felt like one of the hardest workouts we’ve attempted in a while. I don’t know what the reason was, but it was t-u-f-f.

Hey, at least we got in there, right?

After our tougher-than-ever workout, we headed down to the free breakfast with only 20 minutes to spare. I re-fueled with some not-so-surprising goodies.

Fresh fruit (seriously, this fruit salad is amazing)

2 slices of wheat toast with peanut butter, jelly, and banana slices

And some coffee. Yes, hot coffee. I debated on drinking it, seeing as though I haven’t had hot coffee probably since April…and let’s not forget to mention the fact that I was still sweating profusely from my face as we were sitting and eating. (Oh I’m sure our fellow breakfast-goers loved us.)

But it was surprisingly really good (especially for hotel coffee), so I ended up downing the whole thing and loving it.

Once we finished breakfast, we headed back up to our room, changed into our suits, and headed out for some beach action.

It was another beautiful day out here…full of sunshine and definitely H-O-T-T HOT!

Usually, I’m not a hat person on the beach, but somehow I ended up stealing this one from my mom…I LOVE it. She even said I can have it, which is awesome, because now I don’t have to feel bad about it “accidentally making its way into my suitcase” at the end of the week.  

This was pretty much the rest of our afternoon…lots of sun, sand, water, and people.

Around 3:00, we all decided we were pretty much “beached out” for the day; we were all feeling a little crispy and the beach was overflowing with people. Definitely no Outer Banks!

So what better way to spend the remaining afternoon hours than by the hotel bar, enjoying Happy Hour, right?

Now, we’re about to head on out for some dinner. Not exactly sure where we’re headed yet, but hopefully it’s somewhere good!

Question for the Evening:

What’s your favorite part of the beach? Sun…sand…ocean…sounds…people watching?

Tagged as: beach, happy hour, vacation, Virginia Beach, workout