What I Learned at the Chiropractor

Monday I went to the Chiropractor for my ankle. Yes, I said Chiropractor for my ankle.

To keep a long-winded story short, (and to keep you guys from jumping to the conclusion that I'm completely crazy) the Chiropractor I saw is in my running group and treats a lot of sports injuries, and being the innocent, gullible, little 25 year old that I am, it took about 30 seconds of convincing from my running buddies, and the added bonus of a free consultation, to make an appointment.

So anyway, moving on.... you know, to the actual topic of my post....

What I Learned at the Chiropractor:

1. I drink too much caffeine in the morning.
2. I need to take a multi-vitamin.
3. The proper way to sleep at night is on your side, pillow inbetween your legs and holding on to something.
4. My incredibly thrilling past - and current - desk jobs have wrecked havoc on my posture and my back, oh, and my neck.
5. From all my running, my calcaneous has been jammed into my tibia and fibula joint.
6. My entire body is as tight as he's ever seen.
7. Having your neck cracked is absolutely terrifying
8. Having your neck cracked doesn't hurt.... nor does the rest of your body
9. I can run in the half marathon Saturday!!!!

So again, my attempt at a long story short...this time about the ankle... sometime in the past couple months/weeks/who knows, I did something to sprain my ankle .... I continued to run on it, which then caused a muscle strain in my foot - hence the sprain-strain injury. His good news was that I'm able to run on Saturday, but the bad new is I won't be 100% for the race. But since I run for fun and not to win... everything is A-OK in my book..... well except for cutting back on running after the race.... we'll see how well I listen....

Toodles!

@#$&%

All I want is some sunshine. Please send me some if you have it.

Have an absolutely wonderful Tuesday,

Luck of the Draw

Hola Amigos! 
I hope the sun has been shining where you are, cause it sure as hell hasn't been here! But 
But ok, ok, moving on. I didn't sit down to blog about the weather (that's what facebook is for, right?) so lets fast forward to my Friday night....


After another thrilling 8 hours of tedious data entry, I got the pleasure of stopping for gas before driving 20 miles to my apartment.

Yep. That is no photo editing my friends.  Now I do realize that I have a fairly large gas tank, and granted,  I basically was running on fumes.... but still, holy cow! I paid 62 dollars for gasoline, which is even taking into count my 10 cent fuel reward discount. BOGUS. 
Anyway, after my crying was done, I came home and made a delicious little pita pizza with mushrooms and spinach:

Which might not have been the best of ideas, since 2 hours later I found myself at Plank's Pizza in German Village with my favorite woo girls ever (my roommate,  Jackie, Lydia and Kathleen) where we ate pizza and drank beer. I didn't get a chance to snap a photo because it was devoured so quickly by some hungry girls... and yes, I did have a second dinner of more pizza! 
While eating (and drinking) we were debating on where to go out later on that night... after lots of typical undecision making, Annie got the idea to write down every bar in downtown Columbus, specifically arena district, and put them in an empty popcorn basket. 

If you're wondering if we each picked out a piece of paper with a bar name on it, you are correct. 

And if you're also wondering if we went to all 5 bars that were picked, you are, again, correct. 

And furthermore, if any of you are from the Columbus area, you can probably stop wondering now, and just go ahead and assume that we had to force ourselves into half 3/5 of the bar lineup, and ignore the lingering smell of dollar cherry bombs as we passed the bouncer. 


So to recap the night, we drank lots of beer, we did crazy handshakes, we did crazy handshakes with strangers, we got free drinks, we danced, we came home and watched the royal wedding, again. Oh, and we ate pizza. Again. 


Minus the fact that I got 4 hours of sleep and missed my running group Saturday morning, it was the best night I've had in awhile. 
It's a great feeling knowing you finally have a good group of girlfriends to count on and to act crazy with. I'm one happy chica. 


Grab an ice cold bud light,

Why does it seem so much easier to take picture of food?!?! I promise, there will be picture of live human beings..... in the future.... hopefully.....fingers crossed!

2.5 Miles, Ice and a Wedding

It was a busy morning before work started at 9:00, er I mean 9:10....oops.

There was a 2.5 mile run with my new shoes.

I still had a little ankle pain, but I definently would agree that new shoes made a huge difference. Fingers are still crossed that I will be good for next weekend's half marathon....!

I continued to enjoy the rest of my morning free time (before spending 8 hours in perfumed hell) by icing my foot and eating a yogurt bowl:

and of course watching the royal wedding....which took place all morning. Starting at 5:30. With a little half hour interruption for my run.

Kate is so beautiful. I loved her dress. I loved the traditions. I just loved it all.

Now if only I could find my Prince Charming,

2 Month Challenge

I decided this past weekend (after my chocolate binge) that I was going to give myself until the end of June to clean out my closet. (no, there is no correlation between chocolate and clothes, I just thought I'd reference it again). Now, I would never go as far to label it as unorganized, but it is definently reaching a max-capacity that is subconsciously stressing me out. So, I've set aside a part on my hanging rod for clothes that I consistently wear. I'm hoping that over the course of 2 months, I will have a decent section of clothes that I never wore, which of course will be donated... unless I find some size 0 Abercrombie and Fitch jeans that no longer fit around 1 leg, let alone my hips - those will be going to Plato's Closet, ha!

I decided being late for work this morning was a good idea, and managed to snap a quick photo of the current state of my closet:

And in other life news, I'm growing my hair out. I took a before picture... I thought about replacing my face with Jessica Alba's, but that was too much work... so you'll have to deal with my face and my fastly growing Jones' double chin...

I'm making it a daily practice of taking a B-Complex vitamin every morning with my breakfast... for the sake of a healthy body.... aaand for longer hair! I've heard that pre-natal vitamins are acutally the best for growing hair.... but the idea of taking a pre-natal vitamin freaks me out.... I'm sure you understand :)

It's lunchtime - which means I won't be bored for 15 minutes!

Run-of-the-Mill

It was a pretty basic, boring, run-of-the-mill Tuesday and Wednesday for this chica here.
For example, I saw a crow yesterday... 

...to which I immediately started looking around for fog and for Damon to appear, oh, and for him to compel me into marrying him, but let's be real for a hot sec... no compelling would be needed. (Vampire Diaries reference if you actually have a life) ha!
Good new is I've been on track with my workouts so far this week... lots of spinning the past 3 days because of my poor little grossly enlarged, swollen ankle situation... speculations are that it's peroneal tendonitis. The last long run I did was 2.5 weeks ago, and I'm supposed to run a half marathon next weekend...fingers are still crossed that my crow is a sign that Damon is going to bite my ankle and make it all better.


So back to reality... 
I cut asked permission to leave work a tad 2 hours early since I had been staring at my chipped nail polish for over an hour and literally had nothing to do. I was actually productive, and used my extra 2 hours to get an oil change.... which suddenly turned into an additional $120 fluid transmission flush. But on a cooler note - I felt like a professional blogger when I secretly snapped this photo:

Such a bad-ass, right?!

But moving on....after I emptied my bank account to the unruly mechanics, I head down the street and proceeded to entirely empty my back account with the purchase of new shoes. (If you saw a 24 year old girl running in downtown Westerville, OH this afternoon with 2 different pairs of shoes on, while wearing jeans... that was me testing out shoes.) And since you guys are all just dying to know, I ended up going with the ADIDAS hot pink ugly ones:

I reluctantly decided to go for ankle stability rather than appearance. My shoe guy told me that we have the ability to buy flip flops in multiple colors for appearance, haha, hmm..

So now it's Wednesday night, I'm blogging, watching a repeat of Modern Family and hoping that a tornado doesn't come to my apartment complex overnight and ruin my new shoes.

Random thought...does anyone else notice that when there is a "Breaking Severe Weather News" the meteorologist is on tv with the suit coat off, suspenders exposed, and sleeves rolled up..... haha, it makes me laugh!

Don't blow away and stay dry!

Crazy-Insane, Insane-Crazy

 I finally got back on track last night and went to a spinning class at my gym.

I came straight from work in order to secure a spot in the 6:00 class, which put me dressed and ready to go at 5:40. So like any Urban Active fitness enthusiast, I decided to get some serious dead lifts and bench presses in before class started. Just kidding. I went into the spinning room, got on my bike, set it to a moderate resistance and started spinning (it may not have been as bad-ass as pumping iron with all the meatheads, but at least I did some sort of activity, right!?)


Anyway, since I started my workout 20 minutes early, I covered a lot of miles from then until the end of class. Infact, during my cool down, I noticed that I hit the 26.2 mile mark. I instantly felt good inside that I just biked 26.2 miles.....



 But then I realized that it just took me 57 minutes to bike a marathon. A marathon.

A year ago it took me 4 hours and 8 minutes to run a marathon.

If any of you have friends that run marathons, or even if you run them yourselves, let me be the one of many to call you crazy-insane and insane-crazy....

http://zerotoboston.com/

Isn't it great though?!