Headed to a ZÜPA NOMA launch at a baseball game in Sonoma - - also featuring Ayesha Curry with her new cookbook! 🙌A pleasure to get to meet Jonny Moseley at the event as well - - AK was like a giddy little school boy meeting his skiing idol! Poolside with FK+TY! Uncle AK, Chase and Reese enjoying Bay Area Summer Days by the pool! Date Night with the Sterling family at Hillstones -- OUR FAVORITE! Pre- CA baby shower selfie that I made AK take with me - - he was VERY enthused by this 😂BBK and I headed for an enriching afternoon with people I love so very much! Diaper Cake in full effect - - THANKS MOM! So creative, always! 💙With some of my favorite people on this planet: Sotes, Robi, Melis, Andi and Razz ❤️And D+Sandrine greatness here! 💙Kels! My younger sister has taught me so much about motherhood - - in AWE, always 💙Kato and I out of the strength room - - ❤️ you Kato! Jer Bear! Such ZEST for life and one of the most positive people that I know - - all day, every day 😘Debtastic+Eileen -- cherished friendship and support year after year 😍Since we were 3 years old...sharing so many special times together - - SO MUCH LOVE ROBI!!! One of the best afternoons of life shared with very special people - - thank you all for making it a day to always be remembered ❤️VIP's in life - - love you all so much 💙One of our last rides in the studio - - with Ritch before we moved 😫 Will make him come to Cbus for some midwest humidity training in the future for sure! 😂Enjoying some Bay Area Swims in the sun - - with ZÜPA NOMA goodness at the end (Use code MBKZUPA for 25% off at drinkzupa.com - - you will love!)And then straight to some Bungalow Munch - -the most tasty granola around - - made by the one and only Jer Bear (use code: MBK at bungalowmunch.com)Poolside with sweet Amelia 💗And Kato and Chase ❣️One of our last gals dinners before taking off - sniff sniff! I know the universe will bring us all back together in the same city again in LIFE! These are my PEOPLE FOREVER 💞Off to Cbus with Reesie, Chase and Kels while AK drove our vino across the country 🍷Grandma DiDi had some outfits for these two when they arrived 😂Movers made it from CA! We settled in... Re-united with Buddy 🐕This is a sight for sore eyes yet Recovery Boots were just as much needed during pregnancy as they are in intense training - - circulating the blood flow and lessening inflammation 🙌 http://www.rpsports.com/mbk-preparing-and-recovering-for-bbkHeaded to our OH couples shower - - forever grateful to our people we have known for decades and decades - - we and our families HEART you all so much! These two have been a part of everything in life since we were toddlers.....SO.MUCH.LOVE. CCTK too - - heart you all and thank you and Robi for coming to Cbus for this special evening! Made sure AK had a beer or two before attending his own 'baby shower' - - ha! We both will hopefully learn how to dress BBK aok!!!!! Great to be close to both sets of parents especially during this time! 💙Heading on a little babymoon to the mindbodygreen event in Tucson, AZ...What a weekend of capturing the importance of YOU.WE.ALL and being surrounded by the most profound health and wellness experts around. A privilege to be part of the weekend and to be asked to speak: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/revitalize/video/performance-and-the-pursuit-of-balance BEST PART too was getting to share the weekend with Hillary, Maiki and Madison! 💙Our traditional BBF 10K swim - - with our baby boys in our bellies for this one! 💙 💙Running made a wee bit more tolerable with the trusty Recore FitSplint belt 🏃🏽 Ample Pilates Ring Exercises to try and keep the pelvis in check during pregnancy 👼MBK chi swims in the bubble pool have been key!Strength too - - 1/2 BOSU is crucial!Trying to keep some balance, stability, activation and core engaged as much as we can! This stair stepper sitch has been helpful in pregnancy for something different and to get the HR up and sweat on! Our favorite North Carolina Team TriFecta so kindly made us these custom items for BBK - - so so so awesome and appreciated! 🙌AK getting the woman cave DIALED! WOMAN CAVE! View from CycleOps Hammer Trainer - - so looking forward to BBK being the best view 🙇🏼 🙏2 X a week OB doc appts started at 34 weeks 🙏NESTING GALORE - - and in hopes we will know what to do as parents! AK, un-phased by my tossing and turning, seems to sleep soundly on MY pregnancy pillow 😉MIAH visits us in OH instead of KONA this year - - !! HEART YOU MIAH! Relishing in as many date nights as possible together before we hopefully add a little tyke to take too in the future!Night on the town with the Kesslers 👍Cochard visits the bus! So great to catch up xo xo!Pumpkin patch galore to celebrate sweet Mae Mae's birthday! We love you Sterling family! So awesome to get to live close to you again like we did since we were 3! xo xo!Bungalow Munch Granola has especially fueled us during this pregnancy -- over greek yogurt, with milk or on it's own. It's made with SO MUCH LOVE and DEVOTION from Jer Bear - - use code MBK at bungalowmunch.comA Cali Avo brought to the midwest for Halloween - - with ZÜPA NOMA in tow - - code: MBKZUPA for 25% off at drinkzupa.com; 2 new flavors too: Pumpkin Sage and Cauliflower Cashew! SWIMMING PREGNANT = LIFE! BBK also enjoys it the most - - it's the less invasive too for sure on the pelvis!The CycleOps Hammer has been crucial these past 9 months. Haven't ridden outside during this time at all and feel like I have simply by being on here - - completely controlled by your iphone too = ideal! https://www.cycleops.com/post/blog-maintaining-bike-fitness-during-pregnancyAnother date night with AK! BUMP PROGRESSION: 24 weeks!26 weeks! 28 weeks! 30 weeks! 32 weeks! 34 weeks! 35 weeks! 37 weeks! 38 weeks!39 weeks! Very much enjoyed being a part of the FittaMamma (@fittamamma) campaign of #pregnantnotpowerless which also strives to help educated women (and people in general) that exercising during pregnancy is a marquee benefit not only for the mother, yet for the baby too 👊Andi so kindly organized these notes from my CA gals to hang in the hospital room here soon - -will be thinking of each and every ONE of these amazing people in my life for EXTRA love and motivation galore! LOVE YOU ALL!!!! YES, I sobbed like a little school girl when I got these in the mail - - these gals are SUCH an inspiration to me as humans, mothers and best friends - - I cherish them all so so much! 💙 AK and I have been together basically since our early days of high school -- this was a VERY long time ago! We are very much looking forward to the welcomed arrival of BBK any day now and we are as ready as we can be - - and of course, we hope that our parental instincts take over (ie: that I will FINALLY be able to properly hold a human!) and we know we will learn a LOT along the way! We are so fortunate to have watched our closest friends/siblings over the years be amazing parents that we strive to also be and we use them all as massive inspiration xo xo 💙 ❤️
WHOA! The month of November is here! Our past November months, for well over a decade, have been spent getting ready for one of my favorite IRONMAN races on the USA circuit: IRONMAN ARIZONA (IMAZ). We have yet to miss a running of IMAZ since it’s genesis and it genuinely feels like I have grown up on the course. Having been fortunate to take part in it as an amateur for numerous years and then getting to have it also be our first pro race back in 2009 – – it is a race that is cherished year after year.
While of course we are BUMMED to not be in the town of Tempe here in a few weeks to try to have a coveted and never under appreciated opportunity at a four-peat – – we are in hopes to have a very new life in our hands as we anxiously await for BBK’s arrival. I know it will make IMAZ 2018 that much more enriching as I already look forward to seeing him out on the sidelines in his Ergo with AK next year!
The 2nd half of pregnancy, like the first half, is detailed in the most color via the picture blog in this post!
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**We moved across the country to Ohio from CA after 17 years in the Bay Area – – gasp I know! We enjoyed the California lifestyle SO VERY much and have such enriching friends there, like family, for nearly two decades! It was understandably such a hard decision yet one that we needed to make at this time in our lives. Both sets of our parents live in Columbus and some of our friends that we grew up with which is fantastic. It is nice to be close to them again, and I have no doubt that BBK will be spoiled by his grandparents.
Also, we needed to simplify life and live in a more sustainable area of the US. My husband has been working hard to launch his new companies, and this was something we needed to do as a team, as he has done for me in the past on our life journey together. Being close to the family will be especially epic and helpful post BBK! We are obviously familiar with this area too, having grown up here, and I’m already looking forward to training with my old swim squad team where I know those young-ins will crush me in the water – – and I look forward to it so much.
Do not get me wrong: the amount that I miss the amazing training crew in the BAY is PARAMOUNT! Kato, Ritch and our epic MTC (Marin Training Crew) as valuable training partners are all such important parts of my life still and I know the universe will guide us back eventually!
Regardless though of what state we live in, training would be compromised and different with a little life to take care of every day. Training time changes and someone else still runs the show on that. Another perk of the Ohio setting is having the space within our house for a ‘woman cave’ with my trainer, treadmill and strength equipment which will be instrumental in keeping things simple in the return to proper training during this new chapter.
**We headed to Tucson, Arizona in September to be a part of the annual mindbodygreen REVITALIZE Health and Wellness Event.. Dearest pal, Hillary Biscay (who has been a speaker at this event in the past – which was AWESOME!!!) introduced us to MBG and they so kindly asked me to be the closing speaker at their 2017 event. SO much was learned over this weekend from some of the most profound health and wellness experts in the business. It was a real honor to be a part of it all and get to share in the weekend with so much greatness.
** AK and I have been together basically since our early days of high school — this was a VERY long time ago! We are very much looking forward to the welcomed arrival of BBK any day now and we are as ready as we can be – – and of course, we hope that our parental instincts take over (ie: that I will FINALLY be able to properly hold a human!) and we know we will learn a LOT along the way! We are so fortunate to have watched our closest friends/siblings over the years become amazing parents that we strive to also be and we use them all as massive inspiration!
We’ll see you all on the flip side of BBK and certainly out on the many race courses in 2018 – – looking forward to it all! Thanks for being a part of our journey – – for caring, supporting and for your positivity!
LOVE,
MBK
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