Friday night: My roomies and I threw our housewarming party, nearly three months after actually moving in. Three months later, I’m still the weird one.
Fun fact: Aaron picked out that purple top as I hastily shopped for something to wear on Friday afternoon when I realized my roommates were not also planning to wear “just a t-shirt.” Ross, $8.99. He wins!
It’s gorgeous and sunny in Seattle!
Ready to go get 4.5 miles in my stunna shades.
Smile Friday: “Woke up, showered and got out the door within 15 minutes” edition.
Darn my cozy bed!! This is as good as it’s gonna get.
My training plan called for 2 miles + strength, but I decided to skip strength since I’ll be cleaning our bathrooms tonight (which’ll take strength!). Midway through my planned two-miler along the Fremont canal, the gorgeous sunset and cool evening air convinced me to make it three. I love, love, love running outside.
Much to the chagrin of TanaDoesLife and myself, the lovely new splits feature on the Nike+ Web site has disappeared! I found a thread in the Nike+ forum about it and the response from the official Nike+ forum moderator was this:
“Hi folks,
Thanks for letting us know you noticed the split feature on your Nike+ GPS runs last week, liked the feature, and wanted it back. I’ve relayed your impassioned pleas to our site team.
The feature was unintentionally deployed before it was fully ready, and I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to bring back that feature, or something very similar, as the site continues to evolve!"
Booooo. Why is a feature so basic taking so long for such a huge company to launch?
I love my Nike+ because it’s small, basic and easy to plug right into my computer, but I’ll probably look into getting a Garmin at some point. It would be nice to have both to choose from, depending on what type of run I plan to do. If anyone has used both a Nike+ and a Garmin and has thoughts on the pros/cons of each, please let me know!
“ALL,
In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, there will be free BEER so you can make yourself a “Black and Tan”. If you are not familiar with this drink, you fill half your glass with pale ale and then a dark beer on top, using a spoon – the “pub” will open at 3:45pm today in the Café on 20th floor, and instructions on how to get the right blend will be posted.
Compliments of [the CEO].”
I forgot to wear green today (oops!), but here’s a shot from St. Patty’s 2009. I didn’t have anything green to wear at the time, but luckily my roommate let me borrow this gem of a t-shirt!
I’ll be running 2 miles tonight and cleaning up the townhouse in preparation for our housewarming party (it’s March… we moved in back in December), but have fun if you’ll be out celebrating with green beer!!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m excited to announce the winner… make that WINNERS… of my blog anniversary giveaway.
If you entered the giveaway, you’re probably gonna wanna check it out… : )
I did 8 x 400 speed intervals at the gym and it was pretty rough. Started out with a half-mile jog at 10:10, then did the intervals between 8:45 and 8:20-ish. I had to walk between each one because of a cramp, although I would have liked to have jogged! I was nice and purple-faced and sweaty by the end : ) Some quality time with the foam roller rounded out the night.
I’ve run 95 miles so far in 2011, and I’ll break 100 miles this week!! Kind of crazy to think that this time last year, if you’d have told me I would run more than 100 miles in less than 3 months, I’d have called you a lunatic and then settled a little deeper into the couch with my glass of boxed wine.
What a difference a year makes.
GPOYW: “Crossing the finish line of my first 5K” edition.
I ran it in 33:32 and was dying at the end. Not sure how I managed to look so nice and carefree! Probably because of all the adrenaline that instantly got me hooked on racing.
Yes, my t-shirt says, “This Girl Can Party!”
(I’ve shaved 7 minutes and 7 seconds off that time, by the way. Yee-haw!)
Via jog.fm:
“Chris Solinsky, a 5k runner who had never ran a 10k race in his life, and had never even trained for the event, DESTROYS the American Record in the mens 10,000 meters on Saturday, May 1st, 2010.”
6.2 miles. 26:59. The Runner’s World pace calculator wouldn’t even calculate a time under 27:00 for a 10K, but the pace for 27:00 is 4:21/mile.
You must watch this video. UNREAL.
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