Today, we decided to go for a run in honor of the Boston Marathon. Around 5 miles at a steady pace. Good conversation and great company.
We are blessed to have the health, strength, ability and safe environment to run in. Simply put, we run because we can…. and thats reason enough. 🙂
Congrats to all those that participated!
For lent, I gave up chocolate.
Yup! The most amazing flavor EVER was inaccessible to me for all 40 days and 40 nights. I kept my promise and never broke it once. So, considering how much I was craving it this whole time, I was surprised that I wasn’t overcome with the desire to run to the kitchen and take a bite out of the chocolate bar I had in my pantry when I woke up Sunday morning.
Instead, I enjoyed a lovely 7am Easter service on the beach, a wonderful drive by the water, several cups of coffee, a nap and THEN decided to eat this very delicious double chocolate chip cookie at my mom’s house as we waited for lunch to be served… totally worth the wait! Can you see the look of bliss on my face!?
We ate twice and were EXHAUSTED when it was over but it was a great day. Very blessed. Happy Easter or Passover everyone! 🙂
When my alarm went off at 6:30am Saturday morning for my long-run, it was thundering out. I remember that the weather report had said it was going to be a wet weekend so I decided to sleep in and go on my run at whatever time I naturally woke up…. “If its going to be an over-cast day it won’t matter what time I go running anyway.” I told myself.
I got my lazy butt out of bed around 8:30, leisurely got myself dressed, let the dogs out and made it to the beach for my run by around 9:30. It was still overcast and gloomy so it was PERFECT! “I’m going to run 9 instead of 7 today. The weather couldn’t be better.” I told myself. Well… at just about mile 5 the sun decided it would burn all the clouds away and the sky would turn the most gorgeously clear color blue imaginable.
Question: Have you ever felt so hot that even your clothes feel heavy?… Have you ever felt like the sun is literally chasing you as you’re running?… yeah, that’s how I felt. So, I brilliantly decided to speed it up because, the faster I ran, the faster I would finish. And I wanted to get this s*%! over with NOW.
As I got to an intersection (where I very frustratingly had to wait to cross the street) my heart rate slowed and all of a sudden my head felt like staticky television, salty sweat fell into my eyes and I started to feel a little unsteady on my feet. Thankfully, only a little ways further, I saw a fold-out table with a water cooler on top and a dog dish on the bottom.
A local real estate office had set the water out for walkers and their dogs to entice them to take a business card and check out their listings in the area…. Thank goodness they did! I took several big gulps and waved thank you through their glass doors without really being able to tell if anyone was there to see me. Either way, I was very grateful. I spent the rest of my run miserably wanting to be finished but I got through it safely.
Lessons Learned:
Well, in our efforts to keep changing it up and have little adventures, we decided to go to a Marlins game this Friday. I must admit to not being much of a baseball fan because games can be so slow-moving (and, frankly, boring). But let me tell you… we picked quite a night to see a game!
Not only did I get to see the enormous enclosed stadium that was newly built for the Marlins for the first time but, the game was intense, fast-paced and incredibly exciting. At the bottom of the 9th inning we won the game with a grand slam. This was only fittingly followed by the roof of the stadium opening up and us being treated to the most intense fireworks show I’ve ever seen outside of Disney World, lol. What a night!
Today I’m grateful that I sucked it up and went for a run then a short bike ride afterwards despite having fleeting thoughts of skipping again. NO MORE SKIPPING OUT just ’cause I’m tired or stressed out from work. If I’m going to get faster and stronger I have to stay focussed.
Running makes me feel mentally better anyway, even if I do feel physically exhausted afterwards, lol. It was a good day 🙂
I’m felling kinda sick so I made myself some Lentil Soup with Kale… This thing is so insanely full of vitamins that, if it doesn’t cure me… I’m convinced that whatever is bothering me is psychosomatic.
No more skipping work outs after this!!!
Today I did a 10K with my friend Caitlin. It was an overcast, extremely windy morning and I had one too many beers at my bbq last night but, I managed to try my best and finished without falling over, LOL.
I ran at an average pace of just under 9 minute miles and really enjoyed myself. It was a beautiful morning and I got to spend some time with friends…. can’t beat that. This photo was taken by Casey just as the sun was rising over the ocean.
Not a bad way to spend a Sunday morning, even if you ARE running while hung-over. 
More photos from the race:
Today I was able to reconnect with old friends and get to know some new ones a little better. Although there were a few no-shows and the planning and preparing was a little hectic, I must say that my Easter BBQ was a blast.
I am blessed to have such amazing loving friends in my life and am grateful every day that I have them. Its time like these when people take time out of their schedules or drive a long ways to spend time with you that you really feel loved and appreciate the amazingness of friendship. ❤
So much fun!
I had all the good intentions in the world to go for a run after work Friday… Unfortunately, I over-booked myself and didn’t realize how time-consuming all the planning and preparing it would take to get ready for my Easter-themed BBQ with my friends.
That afternoon after work, I bought food, went home and started cooking and preparing…. not without a little help 😉 By around 10 pm, we had made a pretty good dent in the preparations…. Then all we had to do is drink a little wine and unwind!
So, for lack of time and for the sake of safety, I usually either bike or run the same 3 mile loop in my vicinity. When I bike, of course, I end up doing the loop multiple times just to get more mileage in and try to go into different neighborhoods or down different streets to increase the mileage.
Today, I attempted to do just that… I went further down a major artery that intersects near my neighborhood and thought that this would be a good way to increase my mileage and be able to go faster for longer. WRONG! I ended up having to wait for cars to pass and 3 intersections and totally miscalculated the amount of traffic at the time I went out.
I’ve got to start planning a ride on my Saturday morning route by the ocean… Perhaps Easter weekend!!
Little Miss Sunshine State 