Long Time Coming

Since a lot of you only know that I like to run and eat and occasionally indulge in tasty amber beverages, here is a quick rundown of my Ohio residency saga:

• West Chester, OH : ages 10-18
• Columbus, OH: ages 18-22 (minus a summer break spend in West Chester)
• West Chester, OH: ages 22-24
• Columbus, OH: ages 24-now

So the above time period obviously recaps where my physical location has been over the years.

BUT, my heart has been in Columbus ever since I moved here for college, so it was beyond thrilling for me to place the infamous "25" sticker on my license plate:

Hello Franklin County, I'm here to stay!


Please don't get me wrong - I will always be a Bengals fan, I will always be a Reds fan, I will never cry over the Buckeyes losing a football game and I will always return to my family... when they feel like dealing me of course :)


Columbus Love,

 

Recap Time

This weekend flew by, very quickly - too quickly. 

Probably because...

• My sister turned 21
• I experienced a form of better than sex cake
• I spend 2/3 of the entire weekend with one of my best friends
• I got a free cookie for looking cute
• I celebrated my roommate's sister's wedding
• I witnessed my roommate's boyfriend getting iced... and loved it.
• I reverted back 4 years and played college again
• yes beer pong was played
• yes I went to bed very intoxicated
• yes I went to bed very intoxicated after eating my body weight in pizza at 2:00am
• it was great.

the last drink recorded in this book was at 12:66. 

Best Friends for Life for the Night

my sister and me :)

keepin' it classy

It was a fun weekend, but I'm more than ready to eat some vegetables and sweat from physical activity. It's all about moderation, right?!

Happy Monday?

Random, Random, Random

Hi old friends! It's been awhile, but I'm back, however, I'm back with zero pictures.
I apologize. I know how you all look forward to my perfect, artistic and professional photos.

Anyway, this weekend was a bust, well.... sort of..... here is a quick rundown:

• Friday - worked day job 9-2:30, worked new night job 3:30 - 8:30
• Saturday - ran 12 miles with running group, worked new night job 3:30 - 10:00
• Sunday - 4 mile recovery run, pool with friend (k.Haar)

Conclusion - running is the best, working a second job is not.
So, after lots of justification and help forced out of the roommate, I decided that 2 jobs is a no-go. I tried it, I made probably like 60 bucks over the weekend and now I'm done...time to get serious about where I'm going with my life, or about the overflowing laundry basket I have in my closet....

Other then that life has been pretty static.
I still am loving my job at abercrombie... ha
I'm still training for the full with a semi-sore ankle.
and I'm going on 7 days straight of wearing the same jean shorts to work... body spray really can do wonders :)

But despite all the ho-hum junk above... I've got a pretty exciting weekend to look forward to:

• my little sister turns 21 at midnight Saturday
• my roommate's sister is getting married on Saturday
• I get to harass my roommate because of her twitching eye all week.
• oh, and I get to squeeze in a 13 mile run in between a 21st birthday and a wedding, ha!

Sorry for the lame recap post... exciting posts to come. I promise. Even one about blind dates...!

Happy Tuesday!

Speed Work and Heat

I heard on the Today Show this morning that over half of the country is in this "heat dome" and subsequently are in heat warnings and heat advisories... so, since probably half of my 12 followers are experiencing these awful temperatures and humidity, I'll just assume you all know what I'm talking about when I say, it is hot.

Since my marathon training schedule doesn't know when to schedule runs around the heat, I was due for 5 miles with 8 x 1 minute fartleks with 1 minute rest in between. After leaning from Tuesday's run... I made it a goal to get up before the sun and do my run before the heat got too bad:


Yes, this is me standing on the toliet in the downstairs bathroom. I was too lazy to walk the 20 seconds upstairs to a full length mirror, but anyway, here is me all cool and fresh!

And here is me after my run, all hot and sweaty!

It was hot! I was already dripping sweat into my mile warm up and I actually followed through with the speedwork - which is surprising because I haaate strongly dislike speedwork.

After cooling off with a cold shower and throwing my hair up in what I like to consider a pony tail, (lets be real, it is way too humid to even attempt to straighten hair, let alone  actually keep it straight!) I made a delicious, easy breakfast of plain yogurt, banana, blueberries, kashi, and great grains cereal:

And I managed to snap a picture of my new friend: Mr. Roly Poly.

He was a little camera shy.

Stay Hydrated!

Blaming the Roomie

Yep. I'm totally and rightfully blaming my roommate for what I had for dinner.
Now I know she hasn't been home since this morning, and I really haven't talked to her since I left for work.... but I'm still 100% placing blame on her. 


I had Jason's Deli salad bar for dinner:

I went to a 6:00 spinning class right next door, and usually I mentally decide whats for dinner during my 45 minute sweat session...but I ended the class fruitless. 
Then I remembered my roommate mentioned just 2 days ago about how it would be so easy to stop in after working out and get the salad bar. 


Enter my lack of resistance to paying 7 dollars for dinner.

BUT, it was good and I'm content now so I guess I can stop blaming roommate for putting this in my head and maybe thank her?


Eh, we'll see :)


Have a good evening!

Well, I'm still not 100% sure if there is a law against running in a heat advisory, but it sure as hell is NOT a good idea!

So ... I decided to run outside... in the heat.... and the humidity.... with 93 degree breezes.... I think had I known I would be forced to dump water down my shirt every stoplight like some size 0-32C-6'2'' babe at a wet t-shirt contest.. I would have vetoed the running outside idea. But it's too late now and I can happily mark off 5 miles on my marathon training schedule....awesome, awesome!


Lets hope it cools down.... just a tad, or lets hope for no early morning thunderstorms!


Sleepy,

Darn Weather!

My planned morning run was interrupted by Mother Nature.

These pictures were taken last night, but I'm sure if there was daylight this morning, the sky would have looked the same.

Darn it! Now I either have to run 5 miles on a dumb treadmill or run 5 miles in the sweltering heat this afternoon...there's no law against running in a heat advisory is there? In heat indexes that exceed 100 degrees??


What do you guys do? Run in heat and humidity or grin and bear it and drag yourself on a treadmill in air conditioning?!


Keep Cool,