Sweet Nothing

I LOVE this song. LOVE. Matter of fact this whole album. Great running music. Anyone want to go see Calvin Harris with me???

It's been a slow week running-wise, but a great week paleo-wise. Real life (i.e. work) has taken up a ton of my time

But I did do the rhythm and blues 5K.  And despite walking 2 out of the three miles with Hill and Aaron (love finding people - still did a 15-something/minute mile).  So even if I wall ALL of San Diego...that'll be under 18/miles. Score.

So yea. Short post. Old job/new job transition is killing me.  I've discovered startbucks americanos.  Espresso and water for the win!

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3 miles!

In a row... All at once! Happened this morning. Wasn't bad.  And let me bold this gloating moment for Lillie. 

Lillie was right. Slow down to run longer. Ugh, I'm sure I'll never live that down. EVER


Despite needing to be somewhere at 7:15a tomorrow, I'm considering waking up super early to run again.

After this momentous occasion I made myself a smoothie.  Not just any smoothie a super paleo smoothie.  Complete with:
coconut milk
frozen berries
banana
almond butter
and ...wait for it. a egg. a RAW egg.

It was pretty hardcore. I felt like Rocky or something
But it was actually pretty good. So i'll be making more of these suckers.

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De plane! De plane!

Waiting for takeoff and decided to blog about how crappy I feel because of the last two days of eating grains/carbs.
I'm totally a paleo believer now. I didn't now that half the crap I'm feeling now, bloated and burpy, wasn't normal.
A week off.. In which I didn't miss the grains at all.... Ugh.
Ready to get back on track! Can't wait for running and cooking for the rest of the week tomorrow.
Oooh no one in the middle seat FTW!!

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Wins and Losses

Morning Win - Waking up for 6am yoga. 
Morning Loss - Going back to asleep after coming home from 6am yoga. And then waking up again to goto work.

That balances right? #babysteps

At least I'm less sore from Sunday yoga. Forrest ain't no joke, seriously. That move where Mr. Instructor dude wanted us to put on let on the wall and kick the other leg up.....no ma'am.  Yoga is not supposed to remind me of traumatic 6th grade gym classes where I was too afraid to do a cartwheel. 

Not me. But you get the idea.

Yea, I'd forgotten that vivid memory too...until Sunday forrest yoga...

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A Week Out

So a week ago I got re-inspired by Houston Marathon weekend.  It's nothing short of amazing to see so many people out there, people who don't look like the cover of runners world...running.  And my awesome, crazy die hard friends who did it.  Joe, Tanya, Barry, Aly..It totally left me inspired.

Google search of runners world covers...seriously?!?

I've been kinda looking for some direction, some inspiration lately.  And in these few first days of 2013, it's already looking like it's going to be way better than 2012.  I'm really looking forward to it.

My 5k race time.  Felt good to do something other than memorial park. And get a medal!

I think fitness wise, I know what I need to do. I think what I've neglected is nutrition.  Which really is like 80% of the results you see.  Back when I was younger and less busy and lost a lot of weight, I only really had to work on the fitness part.  Now that I'm older and have tried to educate myself more (usually in the middle of a why-isnt-this-working?!? stage) I know I need to change my diet. And my lifestyle of boozing with my friends isnt exactly helping the weight loss cause.  So paleo here we come.

Rough long run.  Haven't done one since early December.

Oh and running. Lot's of it.  Moved back my half marathon goal to San Diego in early June. Team in Training for the win.


edit: Just finished forrest yoga.  Hurts!

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Houston Marathon Weekend.

I just realized why one finger on each hand has been hurting.  I've been wondering since yesterday, looking to see if I had a papercut I couldnt see or something.

It just dawned on me.  I was ringing cowbells on each of those fingers and thats where the metal loop kept hitting my fingers.  A little bruise is even forming on the hand that I held my cowbell in the most. 

Team in training rocked cheer stop mile 5.

Totally borrowed from Tanya. Lol

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Houston marathon 5k

First 5k of 2013, done! Maybe more when I'm at an actual computer

#shitorgetofftgepot

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(2013)

Screw the recaps of 2012.  I had some highs and a lot of lows.  I'm not going to sit here and type up all of that. So short and sweet. 

2013: Shit or get off the pot.

Let's do this.

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ani

Brandi introduced me to the music of ani difranco back in 2005 and my life was forever changed.  Honestly some of the best lyrics written. Ever. 

Even though I'm partial to her older stuff, I'll never pass up the opportunity to see her in concert. And I'll religiously buy her cds (I'm old school, mp3s are too new fangled for me. Though I promptly upload cds I buy)

Nonetheless....I've been thinking about 2013.  And the best thing that comes to mind is Evolve.

One of the best.albums.ever.

I'm thinking 2013 will be the year of big change. Can't change the world without changing my world first.

"evolve" by Ani DiFranco

i walk in stride with people
much taller than me
and partly it's the boots but
mostly it's my chi
and i'm becoming transfixed
with nature and my part in it
which i believe just signifies
i'm finally waking up 

and there's this moth outside my kitchen door
she's bonkers for that bare bulb
flying round in circles
bashing in her exoskull
and out in the woods she navigates fine by the moon
but get her around a light bulb and she's doomed 

she is trying to evolve
she's just trying to evolve 

now let's get talking reefer madness
like some arrogant government can't
by any stretch of the imagination
outlaw a plant
yes, their supposed authority over nature
is a dream
c'mon people
we've got to come clean 

cuz they are locking our sons
and our daughters in cages
they are taking by the thousands
our lives from under us
it's a crash course in religious fundamentals
now let's all go to war
get some bang for our buck 

i am trying to evolve
i'm just trying to evolve 

gunnin for high score in the land of dreams
morbid bluish-white consumers ogling luminous screens
on the trail of forgetting
cruising without a care
the jet set won't abide by that pesky jet lag
and our lives boil down to an hour or two
when someone pulls a camera out of a bag 

and i am trying to evolve
i'm just trying to evolve 

so i walk like i'm on a mission
cuz that's the way i groove
i got more and more to do
i got less and less to prove
it took me too long to realize
that i don't take good pictures
cuz i have the kind of beauty
that moves

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I don't always buy bicycling magazine...

But when I do, McDreamy is on the cover!

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