Streaking Away

Posted on June 1, 2012 by manimimi

This week we’ve had some of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve ever seen. It’s made it pretty easy to run in the afternoon.

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

I didn’t get any pictures from last night, but!

Wednesday:

Thursday: What is that?! Single digits?!

That’s one reason why I’m doing a one mile run on the days between working on my 10k pace. I know I’ll see improvement quicker and get motivated to keep going. It’s working! I did four miles today around 5pm. It’s getting hotter and hotter each day out here. I’m really a bit afraid of what August will bring, temperature wise. I ran with a water bottle today and it felt like it helped. I definitely need to get a bigger water bottle, however.

I’m starting the Eat Local Challenge tomorrow. It’ll be a day late, but what with family things today I knew it just wasn’t going to happen. I’m excited to hit up the farmer’s markets tomorrow, though!

Schmidt to the Rescue

Posted on May 30, 2012 by manimimi

2AM Hero (a.k.a. Thing That Makes Me Laugh at 2AM) The First:

Spinning Instructor Extraordinaire Ron at my YMCA is not this cheesy, but he does do an interesting rendition of “Sexy and I Know It” while spinning. I say interesting because he looks like a slightly less tall, only slightly less built version of this guy:
For real. Cracks us up, every time.

Back to the salt mines

Posted on May 29, 2012 by manimimi

I meant to get up a run this morning. I always love running in the early morning. It’s cool outside, I can come home and cook dinner, and I’m far more prepared to meet the day. After getting alerted at 3am this morning, I knew it wasn’t happening. I don’t mind being on call, much, anymore. I’m used to it and when I have to get out of bed I don’t even pout to myself anymore. However, getting up from 3-4am is the worst. I’m woken from that really deep wonderful sleep. When I finish taking care of whatever is going on (if I finish before it’s time for work), I can’t really go back to sleep. I just can’t stop thinking ~~that in two hours I’m going to have to get up again.~~ I guess eventually I’ll get used to even that. Or I’ll learn to go to bed earlier. Ri-ght.

I did run this afternoon though. No pictures, but I have one from yesterday’s afternoon walk on my running trail with Paul:

I ran a mile, plus a slow warm up and cool down. My run pace was 10:59 and my average pace for the whole thing was 12:43. I guess I’ll have to resign myself to building my speed back up again. When I was actually training for the half I’d gotten up to an average pace of 10:42, with a PR mile of 8:55.

I got a nice surprise from UPS upon my return home:

A pair of Fluevog’s Second Miracle Rhons. The picture on their website is more true to the color. I was a bit hesitant about ordering a peach/pink version. However: dayum. I tried them on with a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. Those shoes looked good.

P.S. True Story: Zak loves himself my shoes more than I do, if you can believe.

Blog move is finished, more or less.

Posted on May 28, 2012 by amoll1016

If you are checking from a feed, hopefully you can see this.

The big change is due to my June Are You Freaking Nuts? Challenge: A combo of the Eat Local Challenge that’s going on city-wide and the Runners World Summer Streak. You know, I get bored, so…

It’s also the month of the building move in our Amsterdam location. I won’t be going this time, but I’ll be the only NE on deck here in NOLA. Time to put on the big girl pants, indeed.

For posterity, I did the first day of Couch210k today. I didn’t stick with the run/walk time cues, but took a walking break of two minutes each round in lieu of the 4:30 suggested walk time. Considering that, an average pace of 12:30 isn’t too shabby. My stride is a million times better now, thank goodness, and hopefully using the 10k app will help me build my speed and endurance without f’ing it up again.

The ELC starts on June 1st…but I’ll be at a funeral on that day so I’m pretty sure I won’t hit the ground running. If you’ve every been to a funeral service in New Orleans, you’re aware that afterwards everyone goes out to eat. Or maybe that’s just my family? I’m not sure where that tradition comes from. I suppose you always have to eat, in good times and sad.

Changing to WordPress

Posted on May 27, 2012 by manimimi

Just an FYI: I’m switching aimezbeaucoup.com over to a self-hosted wordpress blog. I’m going to (attempt to) blog my Eat Local Challenge, and trying to get Tumblr to do what I want it to is driving me bats crazy. Once the site is moved, RSS feeds should work fine. Some stuff won’t work while I’m transferring from tumblr to the wordpress site.