Finished! Chip Time 3:27:16!
Thanks!
To everyone who commented on my last post. I appreciate your input.
That post has been deleted because I think I dwell on the negative too much sometimes.
So something positive. I cleaned the Focus last night and my father-in-law helped me to finally get my license plate onto the front bumper. (MI cars are not made for front bumpers, which are required in OH)
I know, not extremely exciting, but it is nice to have a shiny clean exterior sometimes!
That post has been deleted because I think I dwell on the negative too much sometimes.
So something positive. I cleaned the Focus last night and my father-in-law helped me to finally get my license plate onto the front bumper. (MI cars are not made for front bumpers, which are required in OH)
I know, not extremely exciting, but it is nice to have a shiny clean exterior sometimes!
A Good Day
Totally forgot about time change this morning. Really wish I had remembered. I may have dragged myself out of bed for the group run. But since I didn't I have been trying to be efficient on the home and work front this morning. I got three loads of laundry done and ran a load of dishes in the dishwasher.
I got some work done that I wasn't able to finish Friday. I still don't have everything done that I wanted for Monday, but I am only one person. It is frustrating when I can't get something done as quickly as I thought I would.
Yesterday was great. Starting the day off with a PR was a nice bonus. After that I went into work for a few hours to get make some headway there. Then Hubby and I ran some errands and hung out until the party.
We went to lunch at Chipotle. I had never been before (at least not that I remember). I must have been really out of it. I had a very similar opinion as Eostre does about the whole subway experience. The board said exactly what you got on the burrito so I assumed I order and: wham bam thank you they serve me up my chicken burrito. Well, not so fast. They are going to ask you what salsa you want (it is very busy and noisy and you can't really hear their question) so you say "everything." Assuming he just asked you which of the toppings on the menu board you wanted. So I watch as he pours on three different salsas and corn! Yikes. I am thinking oh crud I just ordered something spicy. Yikes! Move on to the next topping gal. She asks if that is it? "No" you reply. You want sour cream and guac also. So she adds those and goes to wrap up your burrito. Lo and behold your burrito does not fit in one tin foil wrap, she has to go get a second! Then you move onto drinks. For some reason your sight doesn't register the soda pop at the bottom of the menu and you are thinking geeze, I have to decide between beer and margaritas? So I order a bud light. Much too early for margarita's! After I show my ID I look around the restaurant and see the soda fountain. Oops. Oh well, too much trouble to change now. Hubby is highly amused by all of this.
What I ended up with was a quite tasty, MONSTROUS, chicken burrito. I managed to eat about 3/4 of it and had the rest for lunch today. A little spicy for my taste, but it was quite good.
After getting lunch we headed to Toys R Us to pick up a scooby doo doll for our costumes. Hubby was dressing as shaggy, and we weren't sure that the green shirt and shaggy hair would be enough.
After that we headed to the park. The leaves were so beautiful yesterday and I knew that it might be one of the last pretty fall days. Took the camera and conned my husband to take some pics of me and I had fun taking some amateur shots of the scenery. We walked around a bit and enjoyed the sun.
Tree Hugger
Strawberry Pond
Then it was off home to get ready for the party. We got to the party a wee bit late but it was still only at a simmer. Eventually though a ton of people showed and we enjoyed an evening of being social, in costume! We didn't really know many people there and hubby had to work this morning so we ended up leaving semi early. Nothing says costume party like pics so I will let those paint the picture later. I may even add some video!
Shaggy and Velma
Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful day! I am off to wash the car and have dinner with the in-laws.
I got some work done that I wasn't able to finish Friday. I still don't have everything done that I wanted for Monday, but I am only one person. It is frustrating when I can't get something done as quickly as I thought I would.
Yesterday was great. Starting the day off with a PR was a nice bonus. After that I went into work for a few hours to get make some headway there. Then Hubby and I ran some errands and hung out until the party.
We went to lunch at Chipotle. I had never been before (at least not that I remember). I must have been really out of it. I had a very similar opinion as Eostre does about the whole subway experience. The board said exactly what you got on the burrito so I assumed I order and: wham bam thank you they serve me up my chicken burrito. Well, not so fast. They are going to ask you what salsa you want (it is very busy and noisy and you can't really hear their question) so you say "everything." Assuming he just asked you which of the toppings on the menu board you wanted. So I watch as he pours on three different salsas and corn! Yikes. I am thinking oh crud I just ordered something spicy. Yikes! Move on to the next topping gal. She asks if that is it? "No" you reply. You want sour cream and guac also. So she adds those and goes to wrap up your burrito. Lo and behold your burrito does not fit in one tin foil wrap, she has to go get a second! Then you move onto drinks. For some reason your sight doesn't register the soda pop at the bottom of the menu and you are thinking geeze, I have to decide between beer and margaritas? So I order a bud light. Much too early for margarita's! After I show my ID I look around the restaurant and see the soda fountain. Oops. Oh well, too much trouble to change now. Hubby is highly amused by all of this.
What I ended up with was a quite tasty, MONSTROUS, chicken burrito. I managed to eat about 3/4 of it and had the rest for lunch today. A little spicy for my taste, but it was quite good.
After getting lunch we headed to Toys R Us to pick up a scooby doo doll for our costumes. Hubby was dressing as shaggy, and we weren't sure that the green shirt and shaggy hair would be enough.
After that we headed to the park. The leaves were so beautiful yesterday and I knew that it might be one of the last pretty fall days. Took the camera and conned my husband to take some pics of me and I had fun taking some amateur shots of the scenery. We walked around a bit and enjoyed the sun.
Tree Hugger
Strawberry Pond
Then it was off home to get ready for the party. We got to the party a wee bit late but it was still only at a simmer. Eventually though a ton of people showed and we enjoyed an evening of being social, in costume! We didn't really know many people there and hubby had to work this morning so we ended up leaving semi early. Nothing says costume party like pics so I will let those paint the picture later. I may even add some video!
Shaggy and Velma
Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful day! I am off to wash the car and have dinner with the in-laws.
Bench Bar Halloween Run
So I finally ran again!
Went and ran the Bench Bar 5 miler this morning with Su. Weather was perfect for it. Wasn't sure how I would run since I haven't raced anything short in awhile and I have only really ran twice since Columbus.
I did okay though! Second place overall and 1st in my age group. 35:46ish
This is the only size shirt they had left!
This is the costume participants. The guy on the left is the CIA leak. :) Last year he was a hanging chad!
Grover says drink your juice kids!
They had some awesome food and beverages afterwards! Cider and Donuts! Now I remember why I wanted to run this one again!
Su came second in our age group just shutting down the other girl on the finishing hill!! Woot Woot!
Here are my splits
Mile 1: 6:43
2: 6:52
3: 7:10
4: 7:48
5: 7:10
Everyone I talked to had a slow 4th mile so that one may have been mismarked a little bit. But at the time I was thinking crud I am slowing WAY down! And had to pick it up if I wanted to finish under 36. I really need to work on running an even split race. Obviously my first two miles were too fast. If I had just gone out a 7 minute mile pace I may have been able to hold on for 35 even.
Next year more track workouts and I will go back and crush the blonde lawyer girl with headphones who took first ;) (Or so B has informed me!)
At mile 2 my contact fell out so I ran the rest of the race with it in my mouth! It survived and is back in its proper place!
My legs are tight now from standing around in the cold after the race.
I have to get some work done and then I am off to go home and hang with hubby before the party tonight!
Went and ran the Bench Bar 5 miler this morning with Su. Weather was perfect for it. Wasn't sure how I would run since I haven't raced anything short in awhile and I have only really ran twice since Columbus.
I did okay though! Second place overall and 1st in my age group. 35:46ish
This is the only size shirt they had left!
This is the costume participants. The guy on the left is the CIA leak. :) Last year he was a hanging chad!
Grover says drink your juice kids!
They had some awesome food and beverages afterwards! Cider and Donuts! Now I remember why I wanted to run this one again!
Su came second in our age group just shutting down the other girl on the finishing hill!! Woot Woot!
Here are my splits
Mile 1: 6:43
2: 6:52
3: 7:10
4: 7:48
5: 7:10
Everyone I talked to had a slow 4th mile so that one may have been mismarked a little bit. But at the time I was thinking crud I am slowing WAY down! And had to pick it up if I wanted to finish under 36. I really need to work on running an even split race. Obviously my first two miles were too fast. If I had just gone out a 7 minute mile pace I may have been able to hold on for 35 even.
Next year more track workouts and I will go back and crush the blonde lawyer girl with headphones who took first ;) (Or so B has informed me!)
At mile 2 my contact fell out so I ran the rest of the race with it in my mouth! It survived and is back in its proper place!
My legs are tight now from standing around in the cold after the race.
I have to get some work done and then I am off to go home and hang with hubby before the party tonight!
Not Perfect
But it will have to do...
Warning: Do not attempt to throw together a perfect costume in a 20 minute run through JCPenney's. You WILL NOT succeed.
Note: No orange knee highs
Note: Skirt is not red
Note: Shoes are not Red (Found perfect shoes but for $40 I just couldn't do it)
Note: Glasses are not big enough
Note: Hair is red, not brown. (But I will not give in to bangs with my real do!)
Note: Sweater is more of a peach than orange.
Meh.
Can you even guess who I am supposed to be?
Tomorrow night should be better when I have hubby and props in tow.
I got Leid...
at the TNT Kickoff!
No workout today. Woke up a wee bit late and tonight was the Team in Training Kickoff.
We have a HUGE group doing the Cleveland Marathon and the Wildflower Tri has pulled in a very big group for that also.
I am exhausted.
Mentor KR is a superstar and she got all of the triathletes lei's. Coach K was nice enough to give me his so I didn't feel left out. (I am still a triathlete at heart, just can't join in on this one)
I should have lots of fun pictures coming from the next couple nights! Halloween parties galore! I still have to go get my outfit. Here's hoping I will find what I need tomorrow before the party!
No workout today. Woke up a wee bit late and tonight was the Team in Training Kickoff.
We have a HUGE group doing the Cleveland Marathon and the Wildflower Tri has pulled in a very big group for that also.
I am exhausted.
Mentor KR is a superstar and she got all of the triathletes lei's. Coach K was nice enough to give me his so I didn't feel left out. (I am still a triathlete at heart, just can't join in on this one)
I should have lots of fun pictures coming from the next couple nights! Halloween parties galore! I still have to go get my outfit. Here's hoping I will find what I need tomorrow before the party!
Tight
My calves are TIGHT! We went to the tow path tonight and ran in the rain. It had been a week so anything shy of a tornado and I would have been running. It was nice to have some crazy friends along for the ride.
We got in 6.5 miles in 57:22. Somewhere around 9 minute miles. I definitely didn't feel like I was out for a stroll but I didn't feel like I was racing a 10k either so that is good.
It was pretty cold and it got dark pretty quick so I was struggling to see towards the end. I forgot my contacts so I had to run with the glasses and I bailed on those because they were getting fogged and wet. Looked pretty ridiculous in my Tiger's visor, wind jacket, and $3 Boston shorts :)
We all went to Hoggy's afterwards for some grub. Su gave in to the dark side:
I was disappointed but I guess it will make it easier to cook for her ;)
Tried to take care of all our insurance/hospital bill woes today. My goodness the hospital billing department is incompetent. I think I solved the collection agency problems, but during the process I found two other bills that never went to insurance, as well as three claims from insurance that we never got hospital bills for. YIKES!
What is up with the word verification for posting? Does blogger think a spam bot is going to post to my blog? Is this only because I was using Hello to add pics or what? This could get annoying...
On a good note me and B2 are official 2006 Boston entrants, who's coming with us?
We got in 6.5 miles in 57:22. Somewhere around 9 minute miles. I definitely didn't feel like I was out for a stroll but I didn't feel like I was racing a 10k either so that is good.
It was pretty cold and it got dark pretty quick so I was struggling to see towards the end. I forgot my contacts so I had to run with the glasses and I bailed on those because they were getting fogged and wet. Looked pretty ridiculous in my Tiger's visor, wind jacket, and $3 Boston shorts :)
We all went to Hoggy's afterwards for some grub. Su gave in to the dark side:
I was disappointed but I guess it will make it easier to cook for her ;)
Tried to take care of all our insurance/hospital bill woes today. My goodness the hospital billing department is incompetent. I think I solved the collection agency problems, but during the process I found two other bills that never went to insurance, as well as three claims from insurance that we never got hospital bills for. YIKES!
What is up with the word verification for posting? Does blogger think a spam bot is going to post to my blog? Is this only because I was using Hello to add pics or what? This could get annoying...
On a good note me and B2 are official 2006 Boston entrants, who's coming with us?
In Limbo
My cat is sharpening his teeth on the vacuum handle, bizarre!
Not to much to blog about today, I didn't get in a workout. I may do pilates before bed. Work was strange. Very quiet. I am back on a project I haven't worked on in forever and am having trouble piecing together where I should be starting off from.
We got two notices from collections for hospital bills today (for bills we never received) so I am going to have some fun phone calls tomorrow.
The shower yesterday was nice. Fall themed, and oh so pretty. I absolutely love fall. The leaves are turning here and it is gorgeous, now if it would just stop raining! I will post pics in a minute.
I feel like I am lacking in direction right now. Probably because the race season is over, but also likely due to the fact that in a few weeks I will be a home owner and not renting or staying in a college dorm for the first time in what feels like forever. Everything is kind of in limbo. The apartment is a wreck (boxes everywhere!) but I can't just pack everything away because we are still here for a few weeks. I am starting to realize I have a bunch of JUNK! I am a pack rat and I just can't find it in me to get rid of things. Like I have every race number and safety pin that I ever wore in a race. I keep all of our birthday and holiday cards. We have tons of books that I highly doubt we will ever read again (and this is after purging many of them last year) . It all adds up.
When we move into the house I am making a pact not to take anything out of a box until I have time to put it into a proper and organized space. Thank goodness we have a huge crawlspace and a basement!
Hopefully once we are moved in and semi settled things will start to feel "normal" again. In the meantime I need to seriously look at my athletic goals for next year and get working on a training plan!
Not to much to blog about today, I didn't get in a workout. I may do pilates before bed. Work was strange. Very quiet. I am back on a project I haven't worked on in forever and am having trouble piecing together where I should be starting off from.
We got two notices from collections for hospital bills today (for bills we never received) so I am going to have some fun phone calls tomorrow.
The shower yesterday was nice. Fall themed, and oh so pretty. I absolutely love fall. The leaves are turning here and it is gorgeous, now if it would just stop raining! I will post pics in a minute.
I feel like I am lacking in direction right now. Probably because the race season is over, but also likely due to the fact that in a few weeks I will be a home owner and not renting or staying in a college dorm for the first time in what feels like forever. Everything is kind of in limbo. The apartment is a wreck (boxes everywhere!) but I can't just pack everything away because we are still here for a few weeks. I am starting to realize I have a bunch of JUNK! I am a pack rat and I just can't find it in me to get rid of things. Like I have every race number and safety pin that I ever wore in a race. I keep all of our birthday and holiday cards. We have tons of books that I highly doubt we will ever read again (and this is after purging many of them last year) . It all adds up.
When we move into the house I am making a pact not to take anything out of a box until I have time to put it into a proper and organized space. Thank goodness we have a huge crawlspace and a basement!
Hopefully once we are moved in and semi settled things will start to feel "normal" again. In the meantime I need to seriously look at my athletic goals for next year and get working on a training plan!
DANG!
My girls kicked some serious butt at the Niagara Marathon today!!! Woot Woot!
These ladies exemplify all I want to be when I run. They range in age from 30s to 50s and they all were top 10 in their age groups today.
DM came in 3:23, KM 3:31, and BB 3:42!!! Awesome job ladies! Sorry I couldn't be there to see it!
Props also to GK who ran the half despite an injured ankle. Way to tough it out! Now get some rest and STAY OFF THE TRAILS!
These ladies exemplify all I want to be when I run. They range in age from 30s to 50s and they all were top 10 in their age groups today.
DM came in 3:23, KM 3:31, and BB 3:42!!! Awesome job ladies! Sorry I couldn't be there to see it!
Props also to GK who ran the half despite an injured ankle. Way to tough it out! Now get some rest and STAY OFF THE TRAILS!
Social Butterfly
So I did not wake up and run this morning. We need to buy a less comfy bed I swear, it is like the black hole, you can never get out!
So I have been adding a lot to my social calendar lately yikes, when will I find time to run ;)
Friday night we went to Carla's and watched a great (read as: really bad) movie: Fortress, you can read about it on her blog.
Last night we just chilled and watched the Count of Monte Cristo, which I thought was VERY good, seriously. Glad Hubby convinced me to watch it.
Today I have the shower to go to. Tomorrow night is free and then every night this week I have plans, yikes! Tuesday towpath run and Hoggy's, Wednesday B-Day party, Thursday TNT Kickoff, Friday 80's Halloween Party (Any good cheap ideas on what to wear?), Saturday S and A's Halloween Party, Sunday dinner at the in-laws. Meanwhile I am supposed to be packing for the move. Yikes!
So I have been adding a lot to my social calendar lately yikes, when will I find time to run ;)
Friday night we went to Carla's and watched a great (read as: really bad) movie: Fortress, you can read about it on her blog.
Last night we just chilled and watched the Count of Monte Cristo, which I thought was VERY good, seriously. Glad Hubby convinced me to watch it.
Today I have the shower to go to. Tomorrow night is free and then every night this week I have plans, yikes! Tuesday towpath run and Hoggy's, Wednesday B-Day party, Thursday TNT Kickoff, Friday 80's Halloween Party (Any good cheap ideas on what to wear?), Saturday S and A's Halloween Party, Sunday dinner at the in-laws. Meanwhile I am supposed to be packing for the move. Yikes!
Tired
I had all this stuff I wanted to blog about today, fascinating stuff I swear ;) But now that I finally find time to blog I just want to be off to bed!
I did manage to get a lot done today. Swam for 30 minutes, just worked on technique, no intervals. It was raining all day so I skipped the bike outing.
I got 6 loads of laundry done and went shopping for a shower gift for tomorrow. I had a miserable time at Target and it was dang near impossible to find anything that I wanted to get off the registry. I thought shopping was supposed to be fun! Apparently when it is raining terribly everyone and their mom wants to go to Target. I nearly got run down in the aisles by a lady in one of those motored wheelchairs. I moved politely to the side of the aisle and she insisted I give more room, for goodness sakes lady I only weigh 120 lbs and I was squeezed against the aisle sideways, what more do you want? She was followed by her friend in her motored wheelchair too. Yikes. They were seriously into the whole shopping experience. I just wanted to get the heck out of there! What I thought would be a 20 minute trip took about an hour.
I think I am going to run in the morning, but we shall see what I feel like when the alarm goes off! I need to map out a training plan ASAP before the holidays and all that food hits!
I did manage to get a lot done today. Swam for 30 minutes, just worked on technique, no intervals. It was raining all day so I skipped the bike outing.
I got 6 loads of laundry done and went shopping for a shower gift for tomorrow. I had a miserable time at Target and it was dang near impossible to find anything that I wanted to get off the registry. I thought shopping was supposed to be fun! Apparently when it is raining terribly everyone and their mom wants to go to Target. I nearly got run down in the aisles by a lady in one of those motored wheelchairs. I moved politely to the side of the aisle and she insisted I give more room, for goodness sakes lady I only weigh 120 lbs and I was squeezed against the aisle sideways, what more do you want? She was followed by her friend in her motored wheelchair too. Yikes. They were seriously into the whole shopping experience. I just wanted to get the heck out of there! What I thought would be a 20 minute trip took about an hour.
I think I am going to run in the morning, but we shall see what I feel like when the alarm goes off! I need to map out a training plan ASAP before the holidays and all that food hits!
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