Absent blogger

party of me.  Dave and I got our hands on a runner's lifting guide put together for a runner friend of mine.  What we didn't take into account, is that my friend is much stronger than we are.

We headed to the gym last Tuesday (yes, an entire week ago) and proceeded to do all of the workouts (with corresponding recommended weights) and were so sore over the next few days that even walking up/down the stairs hurt (I blame the dead lifts - evil).  I got a short 2 mile run in on Thursday, and had good intentions to meet up with friends on Christmas Eve for a run, but sickness and weather made us postpone.

I need to get this running into high gear if I'm going to be ready for 13.1 at the end of March.

The good news? we are headed to Hawaii on Thursday night and we are determined to do one hike/active healthy thing per day so we don't become total beach bums (which isn't really our style anyway!).  Maybe a run to explore waikiki or honolulu? I'll keep you posted.

Most Embarassing Moment Ever!

So, we're in the hot tub, enjoying champagne together, and talking, like we do most nights.  I stood up because I was getting warm and Dave, being an immature boy, blows on my stomach like you'd do with a toddler to make farting noises....

He does this RIGHT as our neighbor walks out to put her garbage out - pretty much the only neighbor we haven't met in our year of living here.

Lovely! :) hehe.

weekend full of activity

It was a good weekend.  I decided to sign up for the Sammamish Valley half marathon in March, which means I need to start running more than once a week, but this weekend was a good start to getting back on track.

Dave and I got home from work on Friday and were inspired to paint our master bedroom.  A surprising workout :)  but we loved the color (we only did 3 walls, one wall still to come tomorrow hopefully - we have to move the bed) so much that we decided to paint the hallway on Saturday.  Thank God for leftover paint!  this was after a 4.5 mile run.  My legs were sore this morning from my run (embarassing!) but I went to hot yoga anyway.  very tough today, but I felt so good afterwards.

Just realized that I can no longer call Dave "the hubs"... I keep forgetting and just typing Dave, so I'll refer to him as such :)  He is currently cooking us up a yummy dinner: twice baked potatoes, potato salad and bacon wrapped steak.  he meant to get pasta salad, but accidentally got potato salad, so it's a little bit of a potato overload tonight.

I'm working from home tomorrow and soooo loooking forward to it!  Hawaii countdown is on - t minus 11 days!

The hardest thing about waking up and going for a run...

Is getting out of bed.  seriously.  7:30am on a Saturday is brutal.

hot yoga again tomorrow.

I tried hot yoga for the first time....

wow.  just, wow.  I HATE yoga... my friend Skari tried to get me to love yoga about a year and a half ago and it was a disaster.  Running makes yoga hard... very tight hamstrings and no flexibility! 
anyway, she's been raving about bikram for awhile so I finally broke down and went with her. It was a 90 minute class!

I won't say I "enjoyed" it, but it definitely was way better than normal yoga.  Maybe sweating makes me feel like I'm doing something? but it was good.  it was hard, but it was good.  I weighed myself after I showered and blew my hair dry and I think I lost between 2-4 lbs of water weight alone.  crazy!  Probably tmi, but I didn't have any spandex shorts so I just wore running shorts and I was so sweaty it honestly felt like I had peed my pants

I think I may try to do it on a weekly basis :)

Bikes...

So I did end up running on Thursday.  3 cold miles with Riley, who was being such a pooper that she was slowing me down by the end.  It felt fantastic though.  I ran last Sunday with some of my old Team buddies and we did just under 4 miles.

The hubs and I decided during the week before Christmas we are going to paint our master bedroom. We had our eyes on this Ralph Lauren "suede" textured paint so we went this this specialty paint store to go take a look at it.  Bottom line: we went into a totally different direction, but the paint store happened to be right next door to a bike store, so I asked hubs if he wanted to go in (our current plan is to buy each other bikes for our birthdays in February).

We decided to just browse, and turned down the saleslady's offer to help, until I realized we had NO IDEA what we were looking at.  jeebus bikes are extremely involved.  Hubs made a comment at one point "man this is an investment"

apparently I'm too big (aka tall and long legged) for a woman's bike, so we were both looking at Men's hybrid bikes (a little cheaper than road bikes).  We looked at the trail system and it is about 17 miles to work from our house.  with some pretty nasty hills.  We will probably start out really slow.... (aka, buy something for the car to put our bikes on the back and just do trails) because road biking freaks us both out.  But, it's something we'd like to work into our workout routine, especially for the gorgeous spring/summer months here in the PacNW. First order of business: padded shorts.  my ass was screaming just looking at the bike seats!

We went to the hubs Christmas party last night and one hubs' friend's girlfriends asked me when my next race was (she knows I run, and she ran her first half in June of last year).  I realized I really don't have anything on the calendar, which sucks.  I need to book something soon to get me motivated.  There's been talk of the Wenatchee half marathon in April, but I don't know.

Shameful confession:  I did a local half marathon last year where I didn't get a medal, and I was pretty pissed.  I don't want to do local races if I'm not going to get the cool hardware.  Petty, party of me....

it's been a bad few days

no time for the gym - working a ton... and unfortunately (due to my job of wining and dining candidates) eating out a ton.

On my way to Maggianos now for another dinner. sigh. tomorrow I am able to work from home and I WILL go to the gym. and lift.

Beautiful lake front run today

We ran the Burke Gilman this morning for 3.75 chilly but beautiful miles.  My friends (who I met through Team) are all considering doing the Dublin marathon in the fall, but the fundraising minimum is likely to be in the neigborhood of $6-7k, and I just don't know if i can do it... but I really want to run with them!

for now, I'm going to focus on getting my mileage for long runs back up over 5 miles!

Traveling

So I have to go to Toronto for work at the end of January.  My passport is the only thing I haven't changed my name on after the wedding so I decided to expedite the process so that I can travel with my married name.

Except I can't find my passport.  insert stream of expletives here.