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“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.”




Doggy sat this weekend:)  We are the best buds, and his poops are teeny tiny so I don't mind being in charge of him for 2 days. 

Here we go, again.  I watched the documentary "Hungry for Change" and now I'm buying a juicer.  Going to plan on doing the 3 day detox after the St. Paddy's day run in Chicago in 2 weeks. 

Ugh, and mom has to buy magazines with delicious mac and cheese recipes: 

Trying to be best buds with my best bud, not gonna happen, boyface. 

Story of my life:

Thank GOD February is over.  It was just cold.  Now that we are having our very last snow storm of the season (I'm positive), I'm just about to get really motivated to run outside again.  2 Weeks until the 8k Chicago St. Paddy's day run. 

Last week:

Monday: Body Pump, instructor was sick, and they couldnt find a replacement in time so I had to lift weights by myself in the gym.  I saw another girl that usually goes to class and we just looked at each other confused like "what do we do?".  I did a few arm machines, ran 3 mi on treadmill then went home and cried. 
Tuesday: Bum
Wednesday: Body Pump, instructor was still sick (flu I heard) but there was a sub instructor so we had class.
Thursday: Bum
Friday:  Was SUPPOSED to go to CYC (spin) class, thought it was at 6:30, it was at 5:30.  Idiot. Went to the Y and ran 3 sad miles.
Saturday: I got up early and made it to body pump at 8:30, the class was the most full it's ever been for me.  They ran out of the normal weights so some of us had to use the 'old' weights.  1st world problems. 
All day Sunday I recovered on the couch from the night before.  Saturday night involved a lot of beer, bowling, and getting boo'd off the Kareoke stage.  Hilarious.  Even if you reeeeeallly like Nelly's "Country Grammer" and think you can rap, you can't. 


Zeus enjoying some sun and a poo at my condo:

New awesome app alert:  "Fooducate", you scan the barcode from the poptart box you're consuming poptarts from and it tells you how disgusting you are, and gives you better, healthier, non gmo, organic (if available) alternatives:

Here I scanned the yummy blackbean burgers I bought from Costco, D MINUS!?

So it recommended I try these alternatives:

But I have to eat the rest of them first :)  :(

I get it from my ... Daddy?

How cute is this new cup?

I found this plastic tumblr at Target on clearance for 9 dollars something.  I use disposable plastic cups every day at work and started to feel bad for the earth.  I drink WAY more water because of the straw, and have even started putting lemons in there.  Big things poppin.  BPA free.

 

 

 

 

Here's my sunday morning breakfast, almond milk, strawberries, and a banana.  I was out of spinach. 

 

My spin class monday was at a new-ish place downtown madison called CYC Fitness.  They have grueling 45 min classes, and what's awesome is that you're basically in the dark.  They turn the lights off in the room, blast the music, and have a spotlight on the instructor in the front.  I absolutley love that they spin to the beat.  Makes you really push yourself to keep up.  Mondays class was a special class because it was Beyonce themed.  'Like omg'.  The creator of CYC fitness even came all the way from New York (or Texas IDK) to teach the class.  His name is Keoni Hudoba and he's amazeballs.  This guy went from 300 and some pounds in 2009 to looking basically like a runway model now. 

 

 

Oh, and he's also an Under Armour model... nbd

I got all motivated after my spin class monday night and made an omlet to take to work the next day. With turkey bacon of course.

Am I a model yet?

 

I was so incredibly full after I ate this, I didnt even snack before my lunchbreak at 1.  I'll have to eat this more often..

 

 

So of course I stalked Keoni on instagram and thought this was a cool photo because it's absolutley true for most of my workouts:

 

Sorry, the GroupMe app notification was an unintentional part of this pic lol

I've always been the athletic type, but I can attribute my bizarre love of running to my Dad (and Mom).  Here's my Dad's latest Runkeeper activities, he is a boss:

 

 

 

My RunKeeper training for the half marathon in San Diego started last night, I was supposed to run 5 miles, but wasn't able to fit it in the schedule.  Shame on me.  But I will say that my two 5 mile treadmill runs in the past week make up for that.  I am however doing the 3 mile + tempo run tonight so I'll let you know how that goes.  It will be outside (finally), since it's a balmy 30 degrees outside.  Then I have my Wednesday Body Pump class afterwards.  Yeek.  Good thing I have a brand new Lululemon tank (found on saleeee) to make it all worth while ;)

 

 

 

Motivation
 

 

 

Weee! I'm a runnnnnner! +Shamrock Shuffle Deets

So I started running outside consistently January 2nd, 2012 (burr).  And doing hot yoga (ahhh).  I'll probably start blogging now too since almost ALL of my motivation comes from reading blogs.  I'll do another post (or twelve) on the specifics, but for now I'll start with this:

Jan: (30 Miles Total)

 Feb: (31.7 miles total)

March: (60.5 miles total)

BAM

I ran my first "race" on St Patty's Day.  It was the Shamrock Shuffle 10k

 Shamrock shuffle route, downtown Madison, WI March 17th, 2012

And we had VERY unusual weather in March for Wisconsin, guess which day was one of the HOTTEST?  You got it, Shamrock Shuffle Day:

There was one tough hill in the beginning:

Booked it the last mile, the only split I'm proud of ha

Here's Monir and I after the run in front of the Capital!
We unknowingly bought the SAME nike shirt for the big day hehe

Guns after the race. "we're Ethnic" (inside joke)

Picture my Mom took after I crossed the finish line

sorry these are out of order, this is the start of the Shuffle, State Street

LOL

After the race we talked to my parents for a bit, guzzled the free water, ate our nanners, then went to Jamba Juice where Monir got her delicious on, then to American Apparel where we just stared at expensive clothing, then.... TO BRATS for a green beer! 

 I'm going to hot yoga tonight at a new place on my side of town (ALL HOT YOGA IN MADISON IS ON THE WEST SIDE OR DOWNTOWN GRR).  Then I need to run my 4 mile tempo from yesterday.  I was a bit distracted by last night's new puppy visit... Details to follow in next blog post :)

XO