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Friday, 30 October 2009

  • I did it!

    In case you missed it on Facebook or Twitter:

    I PASSED THE BAR EXAM!

    That's right folks. Just one swearing-in ceremony away from being a real lawyer.

    I also got a real job.

    Life is good.

Thursday, 22 October 2009

  • Oh. Hello.

    Hello peeps.

     

    I have done a couple of runs since I last popped in.  I also had the flu.

     

    Feeling better again and hoping to do a small 5k this weekend to see if my recent speed work is actually working.

     

     

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

  • Tempo Run Tuesday

    Posted on a Wednesday :)

     

    10 min jog (0.94 mi 10:38min/mile)

    8 min at 85% (0.90 mi 8:52min/mile)

    2 min easy (0.10 mi 19:29min/mile walk)

    8 min at 85% (0.89 mi 8:59min/mile)

    10 min jog (0.82 mi 12:08min/mile)

     

    Total: 38:00 min 3.66 miles

     

    Cooldown: 1.7 mile walk with the pup

     

    Getting my groove back!

Monday, 12 October 2009

  • Veggie week recap

    Seven days without meat makes one….weak.

     

    Okay, not necessarily, but it did for me (and Hubby).

     

    As I mentioned earlier, Hubby and I decided to go vegetarian for a week.  I really did enjoy eating more veggies.  Maybe I am weird, but I actually like vegetables and never feel like I get enough of them.  I never really craved meat all week, but I definitely craved protein.

     

    The cravings for protein probably were not a necessary consequence of going vegetarian, more like the consequence of not knowing how to properly go vegetarian.  We definitely did not incorporate enough protein into our food to make up for what we would normally consume in meat.

     

    I think it affected my running.  I am not positive it was going veggie that did it, but my recovery was much slower this week.  My legs always felt tired and not well rested, even after an entire day off.  I was also more tired this week, which is probably a direct result in something lacking in my diet.

     

    The consensus?  We have agreed to eat less meat, but not give it up completely.  Actually, this week’s menu only includes meat on one day and its fish.  Also, more veggies.  Lots more veggies.

Friday, 09 October 2009

Thursday, 08 October 2009

  • Running Fuel: Vegetarian

    In an effort to keep this blog mostly running related…

     

    Hubby and I decided to go vegetarian this week.  It has actually been sort of a slow progression.  We do not really eat THAT much meat anyway.  Usually just east poultry—beef and fish once a week each. 

     

    Hubby heard an interesting segment on NPR last week about chicken farmers in Michigan and was saddened by the condition that the animals we eat have to live in (I tried to find a link to the article, but no luck).  I have been steadily trying to keep us eating healthy, taking tips from Caitlin, Angela and Meghann. 

     

    So this week we decided to see if we could go veggie.  So far so good.  Last night was almost a breaking point though.  We both came home from work hungry starving, but we had to run an errand before we could get dinner.  By the time we were driving home we were at each other’s throats because we were so hungry.  Luckily, I have the phone number for our local Thai restaurant on speed dial.  I called them up and by the time we drove from our errand to the restaurant our steaming hot food was waiting for us.  AND, we ordered it vegetarian!

     

    Thank goodness for Thai food!

     

    I was tempted to swing into McDonald’s, I was that hungry.

     

    More on this subject when our meat-free week is over.

     

Saturday, 03 October 2009

  • Michigan run

    My run today was the perfect example of the weather here in Michigan. My training plan called for a 40 minute easy run (training for what? You’ll find out next week!). I left after lunch because the entire morning had been cold, drizzly and windy.

     

    The first twenty minutes of my run were warm and still. With the sun shining, I was almost too hot with long pants, long sleeved shirt and running vest on. At the turn around, it suddenly got windy and started raining again. I ran against the wind, in the cold drizzle for just over ten minutes until the sun peeked back out, the wind went away and I finished my four miles. As I walked the last quarter mile of my cool down to my house the rain was back.

     

    You never know what to suspect in these parts.

     

    Stats

    Time: 40:00 minutes

    Distance: 4.0 miles

Friday, 02 October 2009

  • Hello friends

    I’m back.

     

    But different. I started this blog as a running blog, and I’m going to keep it that way. I had too much hodge-podge on here before, and trying to keep this blog updated with everything that was going on in my life was impossible.

     

    I’m back and I’m focusing on running.

     

    I had a horrible summer. Studying for the bar brought me to my breaking point. There were health issues with several friends and family members. My wedding photographers set out to emotionally hurt me. I stopped running.

     

    I stopped running. Running is so much more mental than physical for me. In dealing with all of the above mentioned items, I had no mental energy left to run. I couldn’t force myself to lace up my shoes. I was physically and mentally exhausted.

     

    But I’m back.

     

    Unfortunately, it took me longer than I thought it would to get back. I had planned on running the Detroit Free Press Half Marathon in a few weeks, but I had a little accident in our back yard. I stepped in a hole. Sprained my ankle. Had to baby it for two weeks. Flushed the Detroit Half dreams down the drain.

     

    But I’m running now. I ran almost 5 miles last night. My ankle hurt, but in a good way. A tired and sore but happy kind of way.

     

    So, I’m back. And I’m running. And I’m happy again. Thanks for waiting for me.

     

     

Thursday, 16 July 2009

  • Stress break

    Posting here has been pretty infrequent. I am more stressed out right now than I have ever been in my life.

    The two biggest stressors right now are the bar exam and the lawsuit against my wedding photographers. I haven't talked about either of these on here much, but they are beginning to consume my life, my thoughts, my body. They are exerting such a huge amount of stress on my life that anything else that comes along, even minor things that would otherwise not bother me, crush me into a million pieces. As you can understand, I am taking a short break from blogging. I don't really feel tons of pressure to post on here, but it will be nice to know that I don't have to even think about it.

    Posting, and hopefully more productive workouts, will resume again once the bar exam is over (July 28 and 29) and once the lawsuit is wrapped up (hopefully by July 23). After that I will be back to my happy self (I hope), and I will post a full recap of the hell my wedding photographers have put me through.

Wednesday, 08 July 2009

  • Race Report: Greatest Fourth in the North 5k

    Also know as the most unorganized event ever.

    This race is in my hometown over the biggest holiday weekend they have. It draws in probably 300+ runners. And it's not chip timed (really, my hometown is still in the 20th century, they're only 9 years behind the rest of us).

    That being said, I also extremely dislike this course. Arguably, it is a beautiful course that runs along the lake, through a residential area and in the country park. But it is a straight out and back course with quite a few small hills. And normally, the temperature is smoldering by the time 8:30am hits and the race begins.

    This year was the first year I didn't want to kill myself during the race! Hooray for that! The temperature was probably 15 degrees cooler than my last race, and I had just run a personal worst, so I knew anything I did in this race was going to be better. Oh, and Hubby ran it too! His second ever 5k!

    The race went pretty smoothly and one dumb kind resident even left a sprinkler on for us to run through. Running felt good. I wasn't sweating to death or overheating like last weekend, and just enjoyed myself and pushed hard.

    My "official time" was 23:59. How can this be, you ask, when my last race time was 33:35? How does one improve so much in just one week? Where can you get that training plan?

    Remember how I said this race was unorganized? And it wasn't chip timed? Well apparently their clocks run on time from a different universe too. Oh, and the volunteer who was tearing the bottom parts of the bibs off for scoring dropped all of the 5k tabs and didn't know what order they went in. Apparently someone had a good time putting them in their own order.

    My real time? 27:15. And I'm happy about it. That's still over 6 minutes faster than my worst time ever. Here's what the difference was: weather was approximately 15 degrees cooler, I actually ran during the week before the race, Hubby was there, and the hills were not nearly as bad.

    No pics from this race. Our camera is on the fritz right now, and with bar studying I just don't have the time to figure out what the heck is wrong with it. Oh, and we adopted a puppy over the weekend, and he's taking up some of my time too.

    Ripley Day 3 006

    Ripley

    More to come on this cutie later.

    THIS JUST IN: According to Athlinks.com, this race was a PR for me. Beating my 2006 time in the same race by 10 seconds. I'm not sure if it is an actual PR, but I'll take it!

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  • I'm a girl running around. I'm a newlywed and in love with my husband. I graduated from law school in May and took the bar exam in July. I am anxiously awaiting the results. I have three cats and an adorable puppy. I run. I love to run. I cook, and try new recipes all the time. I'm addicted to reading others blogs. Enjoy!

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