I brought Trainer Dan some of my cookie exchange cookies to class last night.
He was really excited. I tweeted about it before I left work and he retweeted it within seconds. He said he kept looking at the door to see when I’d get to the gym with them. haha.
Must be nice to be a ripped dude who can burn off those cookies 100x faster than me!
I was denied by the soup Nazi – I mean Nike Women’s Half lottery.
I’m both relieved and disappointed. Relieved to have that $160 stay in my bank account, but it would have been cool to run in the inaugural race. Now I need to find a new spring half, unless I get into the Cherry Blossom 10 miler – which I hear about next week.
On the bright side one of my colleagues, Dolores, who I peer-pressured to enter the Nike lotto DID get in. She ran the Cherry Blossom 10 miler last year – her first “real” race and her longest. She rocked the 10 miler and felt confident she could do a half, but after a summer injury she was derailed. Dolores turned 50 this year and I knew I could coax her into thinking about NWM because fo the Tiffany’s necklace you get instead of a medal. I’m excited to “coach” Dolores and cheer for her on race day!
My work cookie exchange bounty! I plan on sharing MOST of them. #danger
I thought today would be the perfect day to reflect on 2012. I know a lot of people are OVER 2012, but it was a life changing year for me. Now don’t get me wrong I always enjoy a new year and a blank slate, but 2012 will always be a very special year for me. It was so hard to pick just 12 posts – but as a scanned through my archives, these evoked the most emotions or memories for me.
A new job, life relocation, 2 marathons, meeting my idol/future husband, lots of self discovery and sowing some wild oats.
Of course these posts also make me look back jealous of the 175lb me COMPLAINING as I sit ~8lbs heavier today. The airplane guy never planned out, but he was a good distraction while I was in the midst of some ex-bf drama. California was a magical trip and fell at such a pivotal time in my life. I also finally got to start living a “normal” twentysomething city life after years in the rural country (eastern Connecticut, Texas, Alabama) these past 7 years.
I love life these days. Thankfully this year I’ve been able to have a good balance of not having work take over my life. However I’m still working finding a balance when it comes to fitness and a social life.
My year on Twitter (over 3200 tweets)!
My Top tweet of the year was: Me and @thedavidcook pre-race day @lamarathonhttp://t.co/CkCNDP54
Top Words I tweeted about: miles, Freddie (my dog), #FYEMAU (Miss AU Pageant), Weekend, DC, #RoommateChronicles (the nashtag my roommate and I use), class, life, birthday, fun
Find out about your year: http://2012.twitter.com/
I had a pretty awesome 2012!
Yesterday DailyMile sent me my weekly running report and all it said was:
“here’s your training last week”
instead of
“STELLAR/EXCELLENT/AWESOME/ROCKIN/ETC training last week”
Dailymile I know I only ran 6 miles last week, but that’s the most I’ve run in a MONTH – I should get kudos then too – not just when I’m banging out 20+ mileage weeks.
RUUUUUDE
I made chocolate covered pretzels tonight for a work pot luck and didn’t eat a single one in the process (or lick my fingers). I was worried about my will-power so I intentionally brushed my teeth right before I made them!
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me and I’m feeling good.
Oh I’m no ones wife, but oh I love my life and all that jazz…
I did my 10th day of Shred level 1 today – onto level 2 tomorrow (which is my least favorite of the 3 levels).
I’m proud of my ability to squeeze in working out yesterday and today despite my jam-packed weekend o’fun.