Done and Done!

Better late than never, right?! 

Here is how my evening panned out last night:

Ideal Plan of Events:

5:00 - leave work

5:30 - do not stop at Giant Eagle to buy food for dinner oops. I had to stop and get things to make muffins for a going away party at work tomorrow.... and might have bought a bag of salad.....for dinner. 

6:00 - finish out my scheduled 9 with 3 additional miles

7:00ish - eat dinner

7:30 - do not think I need a huge dessert.... I've had enough at work this week

7:30 - fold my laundry that is sitting on my floor from last night

8:00 - sit on my living room floor, blog, watch a recorded Teen Mom with the roommate, and obviously talk about vampires made apple spice muffins for work tomorrow

9:00 - sat down on my living room floor, blogged read blogs, watch a recorded Teen Mom with the roommate and talked minimally about vampires.

All in all it was a decently productive evening! I got everything done I wanted to get done with a few added extra thrown in there. 

It's Friday!

Blogging for Accountability

By now I'm sure you all know that I live for schedules. They are my guilty pleasure and my comfort. Life seems sensible when I have a schedule.

But ask any mental illness professional or pyschologist, and they will say that schedules may not be all so great as we originally thought - especially when they starting controling peoples' lives in a negative way. Case in point - me. As much as I LOVE schedules, they often become the demise of my mood or my ability to socially function. However, there are instances when schedules are great, wonderful and necessary... like tonight, for example. 

So for my own accountability purposes,  I'm blogging my ideal schedule of events for the evening.... followed, later, by my success, er, or, failure.

Real quick - I had a 9 miler scheduled for this morning  I had a 9 miler scheduled for Tuesday but moved it to this morning. Due to laundry and dishwasher unloading, I didn't get to bed until 11:00... which means I slept through my alarm - but did manage to alarmingly hop out of bed and hit the road.... I got 6 miles in... at a pretty slow pace...here is my proof:

lots of sweat and humidity to show off!

Ideal Plan of Events:

5:00 - leave work

5:30 - do not stop at Giant Eagle to buy food for dinner

6:00 - finish out my scheduled 9 with 3 additional miles

7:00ish - eat dinner

7:30 - do not think I need a huge dessert.... I've had enough at work this week

7:30 - fold my laundry that is sitting on my floor from last night

8:00 - sit on my living room floor, blog, watch a recorded Teen Mom with the roommate, and ovbiously talk about vampires

Stay tuned for the results.....!

Personal Hygiene, Chocolate Milk and Ice

Evening guys! Hope you all had an easier transition into the workweek after the 3 day weekend than I did...


I started off the day by sleeping through my alarm which led me to missing my scheduled 9 mile run, which then led me to deciding against taking a necessary shower... 


I thought all was fine and dandy (you know - after using dry shampoo and blow drying 3 days of accumulated grease out) until I walked into work, and within an hour of arriving, this conversation went down:

• male co-worker: "Hey Erin, did you get a haircut this weekend?"
• me (sheepishly laughing) "noooo..."
• male co-worker: "Oh, it looks different today."
• nosey female co-worker: "she just didn't wash it!!"

Really!!!!? Who does that?! Isn't there some sort of unspoken girl code that when you notice someone who didn't pay particular attention to personal hygiene that morning you keep your mouth shut! Sheesh!

Despite my embarrassment for the rest of the day and my conscious effort to keep my hair fluffed and not greased to the side of my face.... I got myself together and came home and rocked out 7 miles at a 9:20 pace.

My run was capped with this deliciousness:

and finally with a more than necessary shower....

And an even more important ankle icing:

My previous ankle injury isn't happy with my increased milage. 

Just wait until I put 26.2 miles on it... 

Good Night!

17 Miles.

Good morning!
I really had all intentions of posting this yesterday.... but the excitement of college football (or in my apartment the mandatory excitement of *Ohio State football) and the opportunity to hang with my posse... (aka the roommate and her bf) took precedence.


Yep, but before all the lazy day shenanigans took place, I met up with my running group yesterday morning for a lovely 17 mile labor day weekend run... in 90 degree weather and 80% humidity... at 7am. Helllloooo central Ohio!


THE GOOD:
-completed 17 miles
-I felt awesome 
THE BAD
-my running buddy needed several walk breaks
THE UGLY
-my running buddy couldn't finish the last 1.5 miles. I ran ahead for a bit then returned to finish the walk back to the store with her... she wasn't feeling too hot whatsoever :(


Then came THE BEST:

Post-run mango smoothie.

It was awesome. Amazing. Just what I needed. 

But just NOT what my wallet needed. Oops... it's a holiday weekend, right?! 

Have a wonderful Sunday,

Marathon Training Update

Hi Guys! Hope your week is going great, and more importantly, fast!

So jumping right to the point: I got a facebook newsfeed from the Columbus Marathon the other day, announcing that there were only 500 spots left for the October race.... when I read this, I immediately to-do list  jumped, and made signing up for the marathon my #1 priority of the day - I've already put in too many long runs and have gone through too many bathroom emergencies to not do this thing - so as of Tuesday, I officially have my spot on October 16th for 26.2 miles. 

Random Thoughts on Training

(in no particular order, of course)

I did my first, what I like to call, big kid run last Saturday - 16 miles.

My ankle is holding up well. It looks a little swollen but 

causes me no pain or hinderance in my runs.

I ran 8 miles on Tuesday morning and have 17 miles this weekend.

Things are getting serious, lol

I am feeling totally awesome during my runs, although I need to concentrate on more mid-run fuel and hydration during my weekday runs.

I am constantly starving.

I am eliminating all nights that wind up with me consuming more than 4 alcoholic drinks and climbing into bed after 3:00am.... at least until after the marathon :)

I am starting to feel pressure on my race time. I ran my first marathon in 4:08. My running group thinks I can do the Columbus in under 4 hours. At 20 pounds heavier and with an actual social life.... this seems like a stretch. Running is my stress reliever...
I am not going to let this get to me.

I think my thighs have doubled in size.
Sorry Abercrombie, jeggings just aren't in this girl's wardrobe options. 

My running group is awesome. 

I'm sticking to my speedwork schedule and my pace has been great.

 

I'm knee deep in training. No turning back.

No desire to turn back. I'm pumped for this.

Happy 3 Day Weekend!

48 hours in 120 Seconds

Holy smokes was this weekend a whirlwind! Lots of things happened.... so much in fact that if I attempted to tell all the little bits and pieces about EVERYTHING I did, I would inadvertently write a novel - liiike I'm doing now... so here is my weekend plus Monday and half of Tuesday in roughly 2 minutes:


Saturday morning consisted of a 16 mile run with my running group. 
I then got to spend the rest of the day with my friend Karin and our friend from college, Connie, and her husband Dan (they were visiting from Cleveland - Connie and Dan that is, Karin is moving right down the street from me in 2 weeks!)
We drank mojitos:

We ate giant pretzels with an amazingly good whiskey sauce... I never realized how much I LOVE whiskey!

Sat outside at a local cafe right down from my apartment and drank yummy drinks:

We walked in the park:

Swung on the swings:

And played on the jungle gym:

And had a Gap photo shoot:

But sadly the newlyweds had to pack up and head back up to Cleveland :( I was sad but had to perk up my friend Lydia's 25th birthday celebration!
We had a little get together at the apartment with all these pretty girls:

(Lydia is the one dead center between us all) - Happy Birthday!

Then headed out downtown where too much drinking took place, but also lots and lots of fun!

Oh, and Karin (from way above) made it out too!

So yep! That was my weekend... I'm sure it took more than 2 minutes to recap, but how can you not stare at these pictures of my beautiful friends.... they are just too pretty :)
Sunday was spent lounging and spending money at Old Navy with the roomie... I did manage to sneak in a 4 mile recovery run... 


Off to watch Vampire Diaries season 1 with Gil... she is hooked :)


Happy Tuesday Night,

Pizza.

So lately food just hasn't sounded good, which isn't the best since I've been in a constant state of starving with my milage kicking up into high gear. 


I find myself only craving 3 things:

• pizza
• peanut butter sandwiches
• icE CREam

totally balanced, right?! 
haha.... right.


So here is a snapshot of a pizza I made to satisfy my craving but also sneak in a few veggies:

red pepper, eggplant and ham pizza.

Excuse the photos... these were taken while talking to my chatty mom on the phone.


On that note... I'm off to do 16 miles on 4 hours of sleep, 
but then I get to spend all day with 2 best friends + a a husband from college :)


tootles,