Exhausted!

What a week! After traveling cross-country to Florida for work with my baby, working all day with very little sleep, and playing hard at Walt Disney World every night...I'm exhausted! Probably most of you can relate because lots of people do the same thing. But I'm certainly not used to it.

I'm so lucky to be a stay-at-home work-from-home mom. My company, Team Sparkle, travels around several times a year to sell product at running expos. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of fun (especially when I get to dress up as Snow White), but it's tiring.

We survived our trip and got home just in time for the whole house to come down with the flu. It's hard being a sick mom with a sick husband and sick baby. I don't know how you all do it! But we are "enjoying" being at home all together. Have a great weekend!

What Should This Pregnant Runner Wear?

In just a few weeks I will be "running" the Disneyland 1/2 Marathon. I signed up for this race way before I got pregnant. If this was any other race, I would just skip it, but Disney races are so much fun (and also a little expensive), so I just had to do it, even if I will be 28 weeks pregnant.

Now the big question: what to wear? It won't be easy to hide this big belly. Normally I wear my Hot Pink Team Sparkle skirt, but this time my friends and I are dressing up as Disney characters and pairing with a skirt. Carrie is going as Snow White. Kelly will be Tinkerbell. I still haven't decided yet.

Here are a few of my favorite options, along with matching post-race cupcakes:

Minnie Mouse

Photo: Team Sparkle

Photo: B Sweet Catering

Rapunzel

Photo: Team Sparkle

Photo: Cakes from the house of fudge


Cinderella

Photo: Team Sparkle


Photo: CakeCentral.com

Help me out! Which do you like best? Or do you have another idea for me?

How Far Do I Have to Run to Burn Off a Sprinkles Cupcake?

The other day someone told me that she found my blog by researching how far she'd had to run to eat one Sprinkles cupcake. I've wondered this too, but I'm in denial about how many calories are in cupcakes. Being the health-nut that I am, I should probably know this info. So here goes...if you don't read any further, I totally understand.

Last year I posted some nutrition facts for two of my favorite Sprinkles cupcakes (pumpkin and red velvet). Since Red Velvet is one of the most popular flavors, we'll use it in today's example.

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According to livestrong.com, a Sprinkles Red Velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting has 497 calories! (In their defense, Sprinkles cupcakes are pretty big.)


According to healthstatus.com, a 140lb person running at a 7mph pace (8:30 mile) will burn 730 calories an hour. So to burn a 497 calorie cupcake, you would have to run for 40.8 minutes. At a pace of 7mph, that's 4.8 miles.

(Me and my Team Sparkle running buddies)

So in order to enjoy one Sprinkles Red Velvet cupcake, you would have to run 4.8 miles to burn it off. 4.8 miles is a long run. Would it be worth it to you? I'm interested to hear what you think.