Marathon Training - Week 6

Monday - Jillian Michael's Shred + Ab RipperX
Tuesday - 3.3 miles
Wednesday - 6 miles
Thursday - 3 miles, 1.5 miles pushing my three year old niece, not nearly as easy as it looks
Friday - Rest Day
Saturday - 8 miles, being out of town we didn't really know where to run so we ended up running a three mile loop twice and a two mile loop once in the town of Belmont, NC.  It was a really cute town, but it was hot and humid. By the end of the run I was completely drenched, although this seems to be happening on most of my runs these days.  It's really attractive. This week was a step back week in our training, it is supposed to help prepare us for our 12 miles run the next week. 

Flower(s) in bloom

My plants are really starting to get on my nerves.  I was about to dump them all out yesterday, for their inability to actually produce flowers.  It's not that they aren't growing, they are, but it is just a big bunch of green foliage.  No beautiful flowers, just basically weeds.  Finally after weeks of "growing" I got one lame little flower on only one of my five plants.  Another one of the plants completely died, it was growing along and then it just stopped and it died, it was sad. Plus not there are little tiny bugs that fly around the pots that are really not making me happy.  Am I doing something wrong, is there a trick to successfully growing plants on your windowsill?

I really don't think they are going to make the move across town to our new apartment.

Marathon Training - Week 5

Monday -  A sorry attempt at cross training
Tuesday -  3.3
Wednesday - 4.7 (I thought I was running five but I didn't check my route very well)
Thursday - 5.3 miles
Friday - P90X Core Synergistics
Saturday - 10 miles.  We learned some very important lessons on this run.  1. Swedish fish involve way too much chewing to be used for in-run fuel (I couldn't breathe) and they give me an upset stomach.  2. Starting a 10 mile run at 7:30 PM is a bad idea because you are already tired when you start. 3. Ice baths are SO cold, I was shivering, but my legs really did feel better afterwards.

Ms. Tootsies

To celebrate our anniversary some more last Saturday we went out to dinner at a new place.  Ms. Tootsies. We had bought a Groupon there a couple of weeks ago and were excited to use it, but weren't sure what to expect.  We were so happy with the outcome.

The food was awesome, the atmosphere was cool.

We didn't take any pictures at dinner because it just felt kind of weird for some reason. Plus we were really just enjoying our dinner date together.

Sorry Suckas!

I have the best husband in the world, and you don't. Kind of sucks for you.

And this is why:

This is my face after he took the blindfold off. Complete shock.

Anniversaries are fun.

Please don't mind my ugly outfit, we were about to start painting so I was honestly wearing two of the ugliest things that I own.

3 Years

It's been three years of love, and three years of fun.

Marathon Training - Week 4

Monday - Running in New York. Between 4 and 5 miles, I'm not exactly sure how far we went.
Tuesday - P90X Yoga (so boring).  I was feeling the need to stretch but this is just boring.
Wednesday - 4.3 miles, tried to run this faster than my comfortable pace, succeeded, but was a sweaty monster.
Thursday - P90X Plyometrics.
Friday - 3.3 miles. Today I saw a couple running while actually holding hands.  While I recognize that this takes great skills of balance, it just should not be done. Ever. It is just weird.
Saturday - 9 miles. This is the furthest Joseph has ever run.  Today's run went really well, we made sure to start off slow and get water breaks along the way.  We both felt great afterwards.

Fourth of July

For the fourth of July we:

Ran

Saw this movie


Ate lunch here

(not my picture, but don't know the source, sorry)


Sat next to this guy while eating lunch (seriously)

via

Napped - No picture needed

Walked through here

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to here

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Ate dinner


waited for fireworks

Loved the fireworks show

NYC - Week 6 - Saturday Edition

This weekend we made some poor food decisions. It is somewhat of a tragedy when there is so much good food around.

We slept in late and went for a 7 miler, it was hot hot hot.  After recovering we headed down to Midtown.  I wanted to go to Mood, but it was closed.

Then we walked up Sixth Avenue for a bit and found Magnolia Bakery.  This was mistake number 1.  We got a cupcake and a blueberry crisp.  The cupcake was horrible and the blueberry crisp was just mediocre.  We were very disappointed.

 Then we went and Joseph showed me his office in New York, that was fun.

The highlight of the day was getting to use our free passes (from the firm) to the MoMA.  So much awesome stuff, loved it.  I would definitely recommend going if you are spending time in NYC and you are into modern art.

 By this point we were ready for dinner.  We had been talking about going to the Seinfield restaurant since the beginning of the summer.  It is only 3 blocks from Josephs apartment, so we decided today was the day.  Mistake number 2.  Seriously it was so bad, I can not even tell you.  This was disappointing because we felt like we are here with so many good restaurants all around us and Tom's was not one of them.

NYC - Week 5

After the worlds longest bus ride I finally made it to New York.  TWO hours late.  I hustled up to the Bronx because we had tickets to the Yankees game and I had already missed the first couple of innings and I was really angry about it.  I finally made it to the game to meet up with Joseph and my friends Shelly and Clark.  I was so happy to see Shelly, it had been way too long.

 The Yankees were playing the Rockies.  The Yankees lost.  Joseph was sad, Shelly was happy, I didn't really care.  I was just happy the drunk guys sitting next to us kept forcing the 800 lb. bag of Swedish Fish on us.  They kept calling them rally fish.

 Saturday morning we forced ourselves out of bed early to get a 7 mile run in before we went to meet up with Clark and Shelly for some donuts.

We had heard about this place called the Donut Plant, and that it had some of the best donuts in the city so we knew we wanted to go.

 After getting way too many donuts we headed over to Katz's Deli for some bagels.  We feasted on all manner of bread items with holes in the middle.  In my opinion it was a great way to spend the morning.

 While we were eating out feast we had out first celebrity siting.  Joseph was the only one who knew who he was, and let me tell you he was excited.  Mostly it was just kind of funny.  We were taking bets on whether or not he would pay for his lunch.  He did.  It's Charles Rangel.  You can Wikipedia him.

After we said goodbye to Clark and Shelly (and Chuck) we headed back up to the Upper East Side.  We walked along Central Park and arrived at the Met.  I love the Met.  So many good things.

After the Met we wandered a little bit further up the East Side to take a look at the Guggenheim from the outside. A really cool building.

 Then we headed back down to go to the original location of the Shake Shack. So delicious.  We sat in Madison Square Park, checked out the art exhibits and took pictures of the Flat Iron Building.

 When we finally made it home we were both so tired we went right to sleep.  It was a fun day, but exhausting.

Marathon Training - Week 3

Monday - P90X Kenpo
Tuesday - Ran 4.3 miles.  I passed three boys on an uphill. That felt good.  Today when I wanted to slow down I just kept telling myself "don't be a wimp" it worked really well.
Wednesday - 4.3 miles. 76 degrees at 6:30 am. I feel like it should be cooler as a reward for getting up so early.
Thursday - Ran 4.1 miles, today was rough, I just wasn't really feeling it.
Friday -Rest
Saturday - 7.1 miles. It was hot.