Life goes on

Boston, Boston, Boston....

I'm so over this terrorism shit. 

I hate that thus stuff happens, and I hate that we'll now life in a post-Boston Marathon bombing world. 

It's like life after 9/11 at airports. 
Or life after any school shooting since 1999

It sucks.  Bye bye more civil liberties. 

I know this will bring more security, scrutiny and all around drama to outdoor events...but life has to go on. 

MS150 in four days, lets do this. 

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So tired.

Praise the baby Jesus for coffee.

And I don't know I'm gonna do with this running+knee pain. Ugh

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History in the making!

whole foods and spending less that 10 bucks #amazeballs

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Wiped

I remember this feeling of being completely crapped out tired.  It was like every weekend summer 2011 and 2012. 

ugh.....

Four point something miles. Exhausted. Um...about that 13.1. Pretty sure I'm gonna die.

Now in commemoration of the ides of march...watching my favorite show of all time. Obvs the Ides of March season four finale episode.

Xena: Warrior Princess!!!!

More couch loitering to commence.  Managed to sign myself up for the Tour de Houston tomorrow....let's see how much these 45 miles hurt by this time tomorrow.

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Yesterday's run...

Was hard. Whoever said you don't lose your running fitness for weeks, lied.

That or running in the evening after I'm fully awake is bad for me. My brain protests EVERYTHING !

Also my knee has been... Weird to say the least. I hope it gets its act together. Ain't nobody got time for that!! (Sweet brown =amazing)

Pic is Harlie post run, staring down a squirrel.

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It's almost been a month!

And I haven't blogged.  Falling off the wagon because of life...

In the past month I've:
-left a job
-started a new job (but still working at the old one temporarily)
-volunteered/stressed out over the special election for state senate district 6.  (WOOHOOO so happy for senator-elect sylvia garcia!!!)
 -stressed out over new job
-bought lots of clothes, shoes for new job
-spent like $600 on car maintenance 
-been massively wasted twice, not a regular occurrence for me
-did I mention stress????

-I've run a lot less during this time, probably the exact opposite of what I need to be doing.
-I started off great with paleo, but I've winded up falling off the wagon with that.  I place to return back to that, with the help of snap kitchen.
-Biking.....ms150 is coming up and I'm starting to get real worried about that. MUST.GET.ON.BIKE. SOOOON. trying to figure out how to incorporate that into my day. Maybe after work since the days are getting longer daylight-wise.
-HALF MARATHON...AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
-Work. Being at the office at 8a is a new concept for me. Very new concept requiring me to wake up real early to work out. real early. crazy early.

-And now the time change.....I'm going to be the first to say I'm going to get addicted to coffee.

Ok the stress is starting again. 

I can say, I did have a great time this weekend.  I love my friends, all of them and their specific groups combined!  Great times.

Ok, off to prepare for sleep.  More regular updates hopefully.

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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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