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NYC Half Expo 2011

I love that my blog being two years old means that I can look back and see what I did on any given day and that if I repeat a race (like I will this weekend!), I can reread my recap and look back on memories of the expo (Okay, so I write longer posts now.)

Last year, Joel told me I should do 8 miles of intervals two days before the race. Why? I have NO IDEA. But I did, and it was pretty miserable. Today, I just did some walking and some yoga and am going to have some major bonding time with my foam roller.

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I picked up my bib at lunch today, and I forgot how small this expo is.

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Spibelt booth!

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I was excited to buy stuff, but I left disappointed. (My wallet left rather happy.) I did buy a pair of Skullcandy earbuds, just in case I want to rock out to music during the race. (I don’t usually listen to music, but I like to be prepared at races, just in case.)

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When I got back to work, I had this chicken pattie, guac, spinach and brown rice for lunch. It wasn’t particularly thrilling, but it did the job.

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After work, I took a nice walk up to the Lululemon in Lincoln Square to buy a little something for the race.

I walked home in the sunshine and warmed up a chicken patty, roasted some broccoli and sweet potatoes and had some avocado with it. I’m doing some spring cleaning tonight and calling it an early night since Sunday is a big day! (And I’ve been going out a lot lately anyway.)

Side note: I had given up ketchup for awhile because I thought it was too sugary, but if ketchup is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

A New York Night

There’s some days where living in NYC is nowhere near as glamorous as it seems to those of you who don’t live here. I fight off the tourists as I walk to work, crowd on the subways with what sometimes feels like half the city and pay per month for the gym what some of you pay for the year. There’s some days that I wonder why the hell I am crazy enough to live here.

And then I do things like go with Ashley to listen to a talk by one of my favorite designers, and I realize why I live here. Just $25 and a short walk from work, and I got to hear Tory Burch, one of my favorite designers speak. If you’re not familiar with Ms. TB (and no, I don’t just like her because we have the same initials), most of her clothes are really bright, preppy and classic. And I wore her shoes to her talk. Is that like wearing a band’s shirt to their show? Meghan’s fiancee thought so.

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(Okay, so I don’t have much by her. But I still <3 her.)

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She talked about how she got started seven years ago and how she went from running her business out of her apartment with one other woman to how she now runs a business with 800 employees and 45 stores. I was really impressed with how humble she seemed–and not even in an affected, I-know-I-should-pretend-to-act-humble-way. The (slightly awkward) moderator asked her when she knew that her business was going to make it.

“I still don’t know if it’s going to make it,” she said. She seemed to be really, really hard on herself. It was also interesting hearing how important the Internet is to Tory Burch personally and as a company. Two months after they launched their first store, they launched e-commerce on their website, and social media’s always been important to them, and Tory does most of her own tweeting, except for maybe some of the promotional stuff. For example, she tweeted last year “Is it me or is everyone grossed out by having to go barefoot through airport security? Should I design a line of travel socks?” She got such a great response that she did design a travel sock. I thought this was such a cool idea and asked for them for Christmas…until I realized I was basically asking for a $45 pair of socks. Oops.

I walked home down Fifth Ave and smiled at the parade prep (I am SO EXCITED for St. Patrick’s Day), and came home and made a chicken patty with some spinach and whole wheat pasta.


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Oh, and decided to go to Vegas with Ashley in three weeks!!