I am SO excited for this trip....but also a little nervous. On the one hand, I can't wait to see my friends from grad school. There are going to be 10 of us (5 couples) and THREE kids (the youngest is 9 weeks)! Grad school was probably my favorite time in my life and these are my some of my closest friends. I can't imagine life without them and wished we all still lived in the same city. On the other hand, I'm dreading the 7 hour flight (with layover) and the time change. Nathan was JUST starting to get into a routine of sleeping from 6-7 pm until 4-5 am (with NO mid-night feedings!).
I'm also convinced that I am going to forget some VERY IMPORTANT item or that I won't have warm enough clothes/enough clothes/matching clothes packed. Inevitably, whenever I go on vacation I realize that I must have been deranged when I packed because nothing I brought matches/looks good together/etc. I actually have made a concerted effort this year to buy the basics: black shirt, white shirt, jeans, kackis, etc. because I have such an idiosyncratic wardrobe that rarely works. I'm quite pleased with some of the outfits/clothes I've aquired and actually have several mix and match options. I'll never be a fashion plate, but at least I won't look like a blind person picked out my outfits!
It will be interesting trying to fit in running between the hiking, biking, kayaking, boating, boozing, eating, talking, and chilling! Coach said not to worry about speed, but to try and run every day and get in a 14-16 miler this weekend. Everyone knows what a running nut I am so it shouldn't be too hard...plus, I'll have plenty of babysitters!
See you all next week!!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
18 Miles, Baby!
I ran 18 miles today for the first time in FOUR years! It felt AWESOME! We averaged a 7:45 pace for the entire distance, but I believe we were cranking out 6:50-7:10 miles for the last 8 miles. One of my running partners brought Blueberry Pomegranate GU Chomps and let me have some. They ROCKED! What do you gals use on long runs for hydration/fueling? I HATE GU and haven't had any since 2001, but I know that I really need to eat something. I loved the GU Chomps and think I might buy some more to use on future long runs, but would love to hear about your favorites, too. I didn't have anything to eat during the last marathon I ran in 2005 and my coach thinks that's why I didn't do as well as I would have hoped. Coach is also a big fan of NUUN, but I haven't tried it yet. Let me know!
Weekly Mileage
Monday, July 20, 2009: 8.6 miles
Tuesday, July 21, 2009: Track workout: 1 mile warm-up, 4 x 1200, 2 x 400, 4.5 mile cool down (total ~10 miles), Puking my guts out that afternoon/evening :<
Wednesday, July 22, 2009: laying in bed all day clutching my stomach
Thursday, July 23, 2009: 8.6 miles in the evening VERY VERY slowly
Friday, July 24, 2009: 8.6 miles in the morning VERY VERY slowly
Saturday, July 25, 2009: 10 miles
Sunday, July 26, 2009: 18 miles @ 7:45 pace
Total Mileage: 63.8 miles
FOUR DAYS UNTIL WE LEAVE FOR LAKE TAHOE TO HANG OUT WITH ALL MY GRAD SCHOOL FRIENDS!!!!
Weekly Mileage
Monday, July 20, 2009: 8.6 miles
Tuesday, July 21, 2009: Track workout: 1 mile warm-up, 4 x 1200, 2 x 400, 4.5 mile cool down (total ~10 miles), Puking my guts out that afternoon/evening :<
Wednesday, July 22, 2009: laying in bed all day clutching my stomach
Thursday, July 23, 2009: 8.6 miles in the evening VERY VERY slowly
Friday, July 24, 2009: 8.6 miles in the morning VERY VERY slowly
Saturday, July 25, 2009: 10 miles
Sunday, July 26, 2009: 18 miles @ 7:45 pace
Total Mileage: 63.8 miles
FOUR DAYS UNTIL WE LEAVE FOR LAKE TAHOE TO HANG OUT WITH ALL MY GRAD SCHOOL FRIENDS!!!!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Blog Obsessions
I love y'all, really I do...but lately I have been obsessed with a couple of new blogs. I encourage you to check them out! Also, please share your blog obsessions!!
- Eat Live Run: Lots of good eats!
- The Happiness Project: Musings on life
- Not That You Asked: Hilarious stories! Laugh out loud!
- Joie De Vivre: Beautiful pictures to escape with
- Young House Love: Ideas for decorating (they live 10 minutes from my parents house!)
- Urban Grace Interiors: Ideas for decorating (plus she's going to have a baby girl in Sept.)
- The Stamford Wife: Ideas for decorating (she also just had a baby)
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
PUKE GIRL
I have not thrown-up since the 2nd grade when I took syrup of ipecac because I didn't want to take a test at school the next day. A bit of a perfectionist, I hadn't studied my requisite one to two hours a night for a week and was worried that I wouldn't get an A+. Seriously. I didn't get my first B in school until I was in the 9th grade and cried my eyes out when it happened. I remember hanging on to the toilet gasping for a breath of air before my next heave wondering if I was going to survive and really hoping that my parents wouldn't make me go to school if I did survive. Throwing up and a fever over 100F were the only symptoms they felt worthy enough to miss school. None of this "needing a personal day" crap that some of my friends parents would let them have.
Throwing up was such a horrible experience that I believe I trained my body NEVER to throw-up again:
I did not throw up after the "School Girls and Dirty Old Men" party in college where I drank three bottles of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.
I did not throw up when I had the flu so badly that my mom drove up to DC to take care of me.
I did not throw up when my husband and I got food poisoning in Machu Picchu.
I did not throw up all 9 months of my pregnancy.
Yesterday, this record was broken and I threw up for the first time in 23 years. It was horrible. It was the kind of puking that has you hanging on to the toilet for dear life. Being a bit of a clean freak, I am horrified to think that there is still probably some puke next to my bed that I am too tired and too sick to clean up. Both hubby and I were sick. I am so scared that Nathan is going to get sick, too. I can't imagine having to take care of a baby in this state. All I have eaten in the past 24 hours is two pieces of toast, one vitamin water, and a pomegranite smoothie from Boston Market. Hubby's appetite returned and he dragged me there for lunch. Let's just say I left after about 2 minutes gagging. Food smells bad.
The worst part is that we lost a house that we were going to put a bid on yesterday because we were both too sick to finish up the details of our closing. Ug.
So, now I'm wondering if I should scrap plans for the tempo run on Friday and/or race on Saturday and/or long run on Sunday.
Oh, and my parents made me go to school the next day.
Throwing up was such a horrible experience that I believe I trained my body NEVER to throw-up again:
I did not throw up after the "School Girls and Dirty Old Men" party in college where I drank three bottles of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.
I did not throw up when I had the flu so badly that my mom drove up to DC to take care of me.
I did not throw up when my husband and I got food poisoning in Machu Picchu.
I did not throw up all 9 months of my pregnancy.
Yesterday, this record was broken and I threw up for the first time in 23 years. It was horrible. It was the kind of puking that has you hanging on to the toilet for dear life. Being a bit of a clean freak, I am horrified to think that there is still probably some puke next to my bed that I am too tired and too sick to clean up. Both hubby and I were sick. I am so scared that Nathan is going to get sick, too. I can't imagine having to take care of a baby in this state. All I have eaten in the past 24 hours is two pieces of toast, one vitamin water, and a pomegranite smoothie from Boston Market. Hubby's appetite returned and he dragged me there for lunch. Let's just say I left after about 2 minutes gagging. Food smells bad.
The worst part is that we lost a house that we were going to put a bid on yesterday because we were both too sick to finish up the details of our closing. Ug.
So, now I'm wondering if I should scrap plans for the tempo run on Friday and/or race on Saturday and/or long run on Sunday.
Oh, and my parents made me go to school the next day.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
I should be....
1. folding laundry
2. planning out the dinner menu for the week
3. going to the grocery store
4. buying a box to send the present I got my friend two weeks ago
5. returning that really cool necklace I got that broke before I ever got to wear it
6. trying out some new recipes for Nathan
7. updating Nathan's baby book
8. calling back one of my best friends to get the latest boy update
9. doing an ab workout
10. returning my library book that is 5 days overdue.
Instead, I am going to sit in our living room, listen to the birds, read the paper, and go to bed early. NICE.
Weekly Mileage:
Monday, July 13, 2009: 9.4 miles
Tuesday, July 14, 2009: Track workout: 1 mile warm-up, 5 x 1000, 2 x 400, 2 mile cool down (total ~7 miles), Power Yoga
Wednesday, July 15, 2009: 8.6 miles
Thursday, July 16, 2009: 70 minute elliptical, Jillian Level 2 Shred (ow!)
Friday, July 17, 2009: 5 mile tempo @ 6:25 w/ 1 mile WU and 2 miles CD (8 miles)
Saturday, July 18, 2009: 16 miles@ 7:39 pace (fast!)
Sunday, July 19, 2009: 8.6 miles
Total Mileage: ~57.6 miles
2. planning out the dinner menu for the week
3. going to the grocery store
4. buying a box to send the present I got my friend two weeks ago
5. returning that really cool necklace I got that broke before I ever got to wear it
6. trying out some new recipes for Nathan
7. updating Nathan's baby book
8. calling back one of my best friends to get the latest boy update
9. doing an ab workout
10. returning my library book that is 5 days overdue.
Instead, I am going to sit in our living room, listen to the birds, read the paper, and go to bed early. NICE.
Weekly Mileage:
Monday, July 13, 2009: 9.4 miles
Tuesday, July 14, 2009: Track workout: 1 mile warm-up, 5 x 1000, 2 x 400, 2 mile cool down (total ~7 miles), Power Yoga
Wednesday, July 15, 2009: 8.6 miles
Thursday, July 16, 2009: 70 minute elliptical, Jillian Level 2 Shred (ow!)
Friday, July 17, 2009: 5 mile tempo @ 6:25 w/ 1 mile WU and 2 miles CD (8 miles)
Saturday, July 18, 2009: 16 miles@ 7:39 pace (fast!)
Sunday, July 19, 2009: 8.6 miles
Total Mileage: ~57.6 miles
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Life Laws
I came across these and really liked them...just thought I'd share:
The Life Laws…and what they mean.
1. You create your own experience
Whether life treats you fairly or unfairly, you will always be in control of your reaction to it, and that determines where you come out. What you fear you create. If you decide you're going to continue the cycle, you will continue the cycle.
2. There is no reality, only perception
We all view the world through filters, many of them, distorted. Some of them may be destroying your life. If you view the world through a dark, distorted filter, your world is going to be a dark, distorted place. If you perceive yourself as weak and vulnerable, you will be.
3. You can't change what you won't acknowledge
Be truthful about what isn't working and stop making excuses. You've got to face it to replace it. Your blind spots may be the very things you most need to see.
4. Life is managed, not cured. No one "solves" life. There's no way to "fix" it permanently. nobody arrives at a place where the work is done. The best any of us can do is manage it through the ups and downs, joys and disappointments. You're a life manager, and you are your only client. Are you going to manage yourself into a place of happiness and accomplishment, or a place of sadness and disappointment?
5. We teach people how to treat us
Its meaning is simple: What you've accepted from people in the past is the clearest indicator to them of how they can treat you in the future.
6. People do what works
Even the most destructive behaviors have a pay-off, Otherwise, we wouldn't engage in them. What behaviors are dragging you down? Figure them out or you're like a puppet on a string.
7. There is power in forgiveness
Forgiveness frees you. And the person you're forgiving doesn't have to acknowledge they're wrong or apologize. Don't forgive someone to make them feel better. Do it to make yourself feel better.
8. You have to name it to claim it.
Get clear about what you want and stake your claim.
9. Life rewards action
Think of the 5-10 most important people in our lives, and tell them how we feel about them. "You shouldn't let the sun set on another day with something unsaid to the people you love."
10. You either get it or you don't
That means you either understand that YOU are your top priority or... you don't
(I'm not sure that I agree with the last rule. I tend to think we place too much emphasis on "taking care of ourself" in our society and devalue selflessness. This being said, I have never had a problem making myself a priority and this rule might appeal more to the type of person that has a tendency to be a martyr.)
The Life Laws…and what they mean.
1. You create your own experience
Whether life treats you fairly or unfairly, you will always be in control of your reaction to it, and that determines where you come out. What you fear you create. If you decide you're going to continue the cycle, you will continue the cycle.
2. There is no reality, only perception
We all view the world through filters, many of them, distorted. Some of them may be destroying your life. If you view the world through a dark, distorted filter, your world is going to be a dark, distorted place. If you perceive yourself as weak and vulnerable, you will be.
3. You can't change what you won't acknowledge
Be truthful about what isn't working and stop making excuses. You've got to face it to replace it. Your blind spots may be the very things you most need to see.
4. Life is managed, not cured. No one "solves" life. There's no way to "fix" it permanently. nobody arrives at a place where the work is done. The best any of us can do is manage it through the ups and downs, joys and disappointments. You're a life manager, and you are your only client. Are you going to manage yourself into a place of happiness and accomplishment, or a place of sadness and disappointment?
5. We teach people how to treat us
Its meaning is simple: What you've accepted from people in the past is the clearest indicator to them of how they can treat you in the future.
6. People do what works
Even the most destructive behaviors have a pay-off, Otherwise, we wouldn't engage in them. What behaviors are dragging you down? Figure them out or you're like a puppet on a string.
7. There is power in forgiveness
Forgiveness frees you. And the person you're forgiving doesn't have to acknowledge they're wrong or apologize. Don't forgive someone to make them feel better. Do it to make yourself feel better.
8. You have to name it to claim it.
Get clear about what you want and stake your claim.
9. Life rewards action
Think of the 5-10 most important people in our lives, and tell them how we feel about them. "You shouldn't let the sun set on another day with something unsaid to the people you love."
10. You either get it or you don't
That means you either understand that YOU are your top priority or... you don't
(I'm not sure that I agree with the last rule. I tend to think we place too much emphasis on "taking care of ourself" in our society and devalue selflessness. This being said, I have never had a problem making myself a priority and this rule might appeal more to the type of person that has a tendency to be a martyr.)
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