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Once of the hardest parts of traveling is planning what to eat, especially because I’m gluten free AND vegan. When I visited Portland, ME it was absolutely accommodating for my dual gluten free and dairy free allergies. List of my favorite restaurants below while there. I need more cities to visit! Tell me your favorite allergy friendly places to go! (And if they aren’t allergy friendly, how did you make them so)?

Portland, ME (GF AND DF spots):
- Otto Pizza (vegan cheese, GF and DF crust)
- Honey Paw (GF and DF Asian)
- Sweets and Co (the BEST GF/DF bagel and cc)
- Gorgeous Gelato (the best GF/DF gelato)
- Sinful Kitchen (vegan egg scramble)

Hey folks - looking for advice and some athlete encouragement. TLDR; I signed up for Hyrox Women’s Pros to give myself the challenge after completing my first Open (and Hyrox ever) last year. I am already strength training 4-5 days per week, and paused on running these past few weeks after completing a 5K, 10 Miler, and my first half marathon in January, March, and April. Just got back into my Hyrox training yesterday, and my coach suggested using RMR training to level up if I want OR do a 3 run/2 strength train/1 Hyrox prep day per week. I’m the only woman I know in my gym group who is signed up for Pros.

I love structure, but I don’t have access to most Hyrox equipment in my apartment gym where I regularly strength train (as RMR highly recommends, especially for Pros). I could sub some equipment, but it’s just not the same for things like sled pulls and pushes and Ski Ergs. So, that’s why I do Hyrox prep once a week at a gym that has it. I prepped for my first Hyrox using the 3-2-1 split my coach suggested before, but I struggled a little bit to keep it progressive and focused like an RMR program that was Hyrox-specific.

I’ve honestly really enjoyed resting from running these past few weeks and just strength training in the gym with four full body splits I made myself. But my race is in September, so I have time, but I don’t want to waste it. BUT I also don’t want to start to hate Hyrox because it’s taking over my training exclusively. I know Pros is a step up - and I’m willing to invest time and money - but I enjoy working out for overall health and fitness (lost 50 pounds since 2023) and now that I’m done with weight loss, I want to get STRONG and HAVE FUN, like learning calisthenics and doing Olympic lifting (which I just started learning and have made progress in, like crow pose and my clean).

TL;DR I want to do Hyrox Pros because I like the challenge and want to push myself to new limits - not because I want this to become my life and all of my training focusing on it 24/7. How do you balance having fun with Hyrox but not letting it consume your life, especially at a Pro level?