So Lilly for Target launched this morning, and the Internet lost its collective shit, eh? Good god. Did any of you get anything good/have any crazy stories?
In between reading too much on the Internet about all of this, I went out and did some running!
Yesterday, I ran the Pin Down Bladder Cancer Spring Fling 10K. I know bladder cancer is really serious, and upon Googling I just learned that “Pin Down Bladder Cancer” is the name of a charity that is doing research to end bladder cancer…but I still think it’s an awkward name.
That said, yesterday morning, I woke up bright and early to run up to the tram at 59th Street to head out to Roosevelt Island for the race. I needed to do a total of 9 miles, and I went back and forth over whether I should run it out there, ALSO run the 5K or just run to the tram. Running to the tram seemed the easiest and least boring, so I did that and met Heather there to tram over.
Tram: super fast, super pretty view! 10/10, would ride again.
The awesome thing about NYC Runs races is how small they are. We showed up there with so much time to kill and just spent some time basking in the sun before the race.
And then…it was time to run. Since this was technically supposed be part of my long run, I wasn’t gunning for a PR. (My 10K PR was kind of a surprise — I got it running “for fun” in the Run 10 Feed 10 10K in the fall.) Neither was my coworker Tamara, so we decided to run together. We said we’d run “easy,” which I was thinking would be right around 9:00 miles, give or take a few seconds on either side.
My Garmin flashed 8:35 at me for the first mile. Well! Okay then. This wasn’t the first time I’d run on Roosevelt Island — Ashley and I did a 4th of July race out there a few years ago — so I knew that I was in for a lot of kind of boring straightaways. While my friends and I picked this race because of its late start at 9:30, we kind of regretted it because of the heat. It was in the 70s by the time we began running, which none of us were used to yet.
Synchronized running?
Tamara and I began the race pretty chatty, but as the sun bore down on us, we talked less and less. (Though it was usually me to break the silence when silence was broken. I just really like having a captive audience sometimes.)
We stayed together until probably about mile 5.8, where she got a decent kick, and I tried to just keep up our same pace. For the next .2 miles, I stayed probably within 10-20 feet of her, but while I would have loved to kick it up at mile 6, I was still struggling to just maintain our current pace, and she picked it up even more. DAMNIT!
About 50 feet from the finish line, I noticed a girl just ahead of me and decided to try to pick her off. She was on to me, and she picked it up, too. FINE, YOU WIN, TOO. I crossed about a foot behind her.
I generally all-out race races or completely run them for fun, so for a race I knew I wasn’t going to PR, it was still really satisfying to run a solid run on a hot day.
Afterwards, we obviously went to brunch.
We went to the Bar Room on the Upper East Side (pretty near the tram), where everything was delicious, and brunch cocktails were only $6. #priorities
Tamara and our other coworker Alison were heading into the office, so I convinced them to walk with me since it was so nice out. I don’t use my FitBit any more, but I have been checking my Health app on my phone lately, and I logged 26K steps yesterday. WOOT.
How was your weekend? And tell me about your last race.
Congrats on the 10k! I would be interested in hearing about why you don’t use your fitbit anymore.
@jess: I actually wrote more about it here: https://preppyrunner.com/2014/03/ditching-the-data/, but in short: I would either obsess over it, or I would feel bad for not having gotten enough steps even though I was getting plenty of other exercise.
I was at Starbucks working this morning, and these two girls came in and they literally said they had been to like 6 stores. Poor things!
I may be the most hated person right now but I lucked out today. At 9:45am this morning I walked into Target to pick up something needed for a bridal shower later in the day. As I walked by the empty Lily rack I thought, what crazy people were in the store this morning. Picked up what I needed and as I walked back past the rack there were four garments in Large, XLarge and XXL. All my sizes and my sisters size. Grabbed the four pieces, paid and walked out of the store. No stress, no tears, nothing but a smile on my face! Plenty of my friends got nothing.
oh wow! That’s awesome.
I didn’t manage to get one thing from the LP for Target collection. It all sold out. I was so bummed.
I thought of you yesterday when my friend said the Lily stuff in our Target was sold out by like 9:00 am! Great job on the race, it was definitely hot out there on Saturday which we are totally not used to yet!
Running on Saturday was awful because of the heat!! Definitely not used to those temps yet so I ran my 9 mile training run sloooow! Great job on the race!
I’m not even a huge Lilly fan typically, but I was loving the look book for the Target line. I was awake early anyway, needed light bulbs and live 1 mile from Target so I headed over there right before 8. Line in front of the store and as we walked in and over to the women’s section, people were grabbing anything and everything. I saw people pushing carts FULL of all Lilly, I guarantee most of them were to sell on Ebay. The women’s racks were empty and I couldn’t find the beach towel I wanted, but I snagged two rompers and a dress for my 7 month old for later on 🙂 They were too cute to pass up. Women were standing next to empty racks, waiting for people to discard things so they could pounce!
hey lady, it was wonderful running the 10K with you! got to get back to bar room for more truffle fries.
I love how you said “obviously” you went to brunch… That’s basically my main running motivation. {Kidding…….sorta.}
Good gosh Lilly for Target was such a hot mess. I can’t complain though I was able to get most of what I wanted online and I know a lot of people didn’t get anything.
xx
Lauren Elizabeth
Petite in Pearls
I had moments where I thought about ordering some of the Lilly but then had no idea how it would fit and figured everyone else cared way more and said forget it.
Great race pace!
I have been logging my steps lately and was pretty close to that myself yesterday! I am actually waiting on a Garmin vivofit to arrive. I am way too sedentary at my desk and am now really trying to move more. I’ve taken to walking about 20 flights of stairs as a break to get steps in haha!
I had success with Lilly for Target at store! Might be because a group of my friends and I were the first one in line 🙂 It helped that three of us went to clothes and three of us went to home goods. Divide and conquer and then we all went into the middle of the store and swapped. Im actually giving away the plate set today on my blog 🙂