Tag Archives: running

NYC Marathon Kick-Off

This weekend, hearing Ali and Emily talking about their current training, I started longing to be training for something again. (By the way, if you don’t already read Emily’s blog, you should. She’s training for a freaking Ironman. She took an early bus back to D.C. this morning so she could get a 100-mile bike ride in for her training. Talk about inspiring.)

Now, there’s quite a few reasons training for a marathon sucks, but finishing a 20-mile run is so incredibly satisfying, not to mention finishing the damn thing.

As Ashley and I walked to brunch yesterday, she said that she thought we should call yesterday’s run the beginning of our training season for the NYC Marathon–and I loved that idea. I’ll officially start training on July 1, but I’m going to do one 6-miler a week between now and then. I’m also going to recommit to my triathlon training schedule so that I can feel as strong on July 23 as I did yesterday.

I was feeling incredibly burned out from running after running three half marathons in a month, and I’ve definitely eased back on running since then, but I am so ready to start training again.

pasta.jpg

So I’m just going to start carb loading now. (I know I said I was going to cut back on wheat products a bit, but I’m trying get rid of some of the ones I have on hand first.)

Redemption Run

I woke up this morning and needed a run. I hit the West Side for five sweaty, sweaty miles.

photo 1.JPG

And apparently took a damn good picture. This is with my iPhone and not retouched at all.

photo 2.JPG

Same with this one. I will never get iPhone photos this good again.

photo 5.PNG

I don’t normally run with headphones, but lately it’s helped me truly separate from my thoughts. I’ve been running less and while it’s sort of nice mentally to not worry about how many miles I should be running in a given week, it makes the runs I do do harder. The first and last mile of this were hardest, but I finally got in the groove for the miles in between and had a decent run. I’m running a 10K this weekend, so I felt like I should do a “long” run.

My lunch and the rest of my day were boring, so let’s skip over that.

After [normal people get out of] work, I met my friend Kristen, who was in town from D.C., for drinks at Olives.

photo 3.JPG

It was a gorgeous night in NYC.

photo 4.JPG

I was in Ashley’s ‘hood, so I dropped by and hung out for a bit. And picked up my loot from winning her giveaway. (Apparently I have amazing luck winning giveaways. I’m looking into turning that into a career.)

DSC_0503.JPG

All day long, I thought about the lobster ravioli from Trader Joe’s I was excited to try tonight. Lobster ravioli for $2.99! I was so excited. I knew when they were so cheap, they probably wouldn’t be that good, but figured they were worth a try. Let me save you some time now: just don’t. I could barely taste the lobster. I tried one while they were cooking, and that was when I decided not to put any effort into a sauce, not even a ridiculously simple one. I put some jar marinara sauce, a little olive oil and red pepper flakes over the ravioli and added chicken meatballs and Brussels sprouts, also from Trader Joe’s.