Woohoo! After much excitement and anxiety, the day of the RnR Half finally arrived. I did have some momentary regrets last night, like "why did I do this to myself?" and to quote a t-shirt I saw at the Health & Fitness Expo, "this seemed like a good idea three months ago ( Read more... )

Eek, I feel like the flakiest person ever! I had talked to a friend about joining our team for Sunday's run, but online registration was closed and she was going to do it that morning. She ended up not doing the run after all, but we spoke briefly on Sunday about possibly hiking today. I had COMPLETELY put it out of my mind until today, when I ( Read more... )

It's kind of neat being up, dressed, and having my coffee at this hour. Not so neat the moment the alarm goes off, but shortly after it's not so bad.

I'm excited about running the Iron Girl 10k this Sunday in Del Mar. A friend mentioned she and a couple other girls from our cohort were participating and asked if I'd like to join. Unexpected and spontaneous, and I'm so glad I'm going! I haven't done one since 2007, it should be a good challenge. As I was registering for the run, I got all kinds ( Read more... )

Visit with parents is going well so far. The housekeeper came in on Tuesday and I spent Wednesday morning shampooing the carpets. Yay for looking and feeling like we have our shit together! Unfortunately, our ALLEGEDLY super-deluxe aerobed sprung a leak and my parents spent a good part of the night re-inflating the damn thing. I was mortified they ( Read more... )

What a great run! It was perfect weather for it, and I thing at least part of the reason it was completely overcast was my lathering on a coat of SPF 70 this morning. I got a text from my friend letting me know where they'd parked and where to look for them, but by the time I got down there I ended up parking in a different area and had no luck ( Read more... )

OMG, you guys, I'm scared! I'm joining some friends for the Bay Bridge Run on Sunday and I have no idea how I'm going to do. My friend warned me with plenty of time to train for the STEEP incline of the bridge. Have I done so? NO! I did some incline work yesterday and now I'm even more scared about how much this will kick my ass. At least it's only ( Read more... )

I had one of my nights without a single hour of sleep. Not even fifteen minutes here and there! I'm tired of this. I called my doctor to discuss some options and she's on vacation all week. I can't forget to follow up on this. It's not ok to not sleep!

Instead of my weekly goal of four runs, I switched it up to three runs and two hikes last week. Nice! So for a timely day of muscle rest, I invited my friend over for lunch. I made salad with pears, goat cheese, walnuts, and champagne dressing. This has become my current obsession, sooo good. We also hung out by the pool for a while and were ( Read more... )

In an effort to make my indoor runs more productive, I am on a mission to finally increase the incline from the 1.0 I've stuck to forever. I've worked on speed and endurance, but left the incline completely neglected. Today I did the warm-up at 4mph/4.0 incline in order to get used to it, then ran a little slower than usual, but alternating each ( Read more... )