Why didn't anyone stop me!
Hello again, long time no talk. Sorry, we've been busy with working, schooling, moving, vacationing, etc. So basically since I'm unemployed again (due to said moving) I'll start blogging a bit again :)
It's therapeutic.
In other news, I'm running a half marathon. Specifically the San Francisco Nike Women's Half. One of only two half marathons that I would ever agree to run (the other one is sponsored by Lululemon in Vancouver, BC, BTW).
When Dan was picking between grad schools (Boston, Princeton, or Palo Alto) I told him that If we moved to the bay area I would run a half marathon in the 5 years that we lived there. Back story, Dan has been trying to get me to run since basically the day we met 6 years ago so that may be why we moved to Palo Alto and not Princeton, NJ. A few weeks after deciding to move to Palo Alto I got this crazy idea that I should run the half marathon THIS year. This 2015 year. I told Dan and my mom this and while both of them looked at me like I was crazy, BUT because they were both really excited that I was going to start running neither of them talked me out of it. Oh, my mom has been trying to get me to run for the last... 20 years. I really had no choice.
The San Francisco Nike Women's Half Marathon is wonderful! You run around the city and along the pier and at the end of the race they don't give you some crap medal you will throw away during your next move. No, they have firemen in tuxedos handing out Tiffany's necklaces. Proceeds from the race also go to help fund research for Leukemia and Lymphoma. And then you're in San Francisco which is also super fun. Because of this the race is super popular and you have to enter a lottery to get in. After I had come to my senses a bit (but still a bit delusional) I decided to enter the lottery with my mom, Dan, and some other people from my home town expecting that we wouldn't get in but at least I tried. Well the higher powers that be decided to play a little joke on me because we got in.
This was... Like July 10th that I found out. Long story short, we've been traveling and I didn't start training until last week (September 14th ish) so I'm kicking myself in the butt right now. So now that I've finally figured out that I'm running 13.1 miles in less than a month (5 weeks from the time that I started training) I'm starting to train.
Good news is that I only have to keep a 15 minute pace, bad news is that I have to keep a 15 minutes pace. That is about 2 miles running 1 mile walking. At this point I'm almost positive I can do the whole thing at a 15 minute pace which is a relief but I'd like to not be the last person to finish the race so I'm working up to being able to run half of it straight and then running/walking the last 6.55 miles. Whether that's how it works out when it comes to the actual race, we'll see. Right now I'm just praying I don't get a knee or ankle injury in the next 4 weeks.
Well that's pretty much that on the whole half marathon thing.
If I keep up this blogging thing I have tons to talk about with all the stuff we did this summer and with our move to the bay area. For now though pray that I can finish this half marathon in one piece.
Hello again, long time no talk. Sorry, we've been busy with working, schooling, moving, vacationing, etc. So basically since I'm unemployed again (due to said moving) I'll start blogging a bit again :)
It's therapeutic.
In other news, I'm running a half marathon. Specifically the San Francisco Nike Women's Half. One of only two half marathons that I would ever agree to run (the other one is sponsored by Lululemon in Vancouver, BC, BTW).
When Dan was picking between grad schools (Boston, Princeton, or Palo Alto) I told him that If we moved to the bay area I would run a half marathon in the 5 years that we lived there. Back story, Dan has been trying to get me to run since basically the day we met 6 years ago so that may be why we moved to Palo Alto and not Princeton, NJ. A few weeks after deciding to move to Palo Alto I got this crazy idea that I should run the half marathon THIS year. This 2015 year. I told Dan and my mom this and while both of them looked at me like I was crazy, BUT because they were both really excited that I was going to start running neither of them talked me out of it. Oh, my mom has been trying to get me to run for the last... 20 years. I really had no choice.
The San Francisco Nike Women's Half Marathon is wonderful! You run around the city and along the pier and at the end of the race they don't give you some crap medal you will throw away during your next move. No, they have firemen in tuxedos handing out Tiffany's necklaces. Proceeds from the race also go to help fund research for Leukemia and Lymphoma. And then you're in San Francisco which is also super fun. Because of this the race is super popular and you have to enter a lottery to get in. After I had come to my senses a bit (but still a bit delusional) I decided to enter the lottery with my mom, Dan, and some other people from my home town expecting that we wouldn't get in but at least I tried. Well the higher powers that be decided to play a little joke on me because we got in.
This was... Like July 10th that I found out. Long story short, we've been traveling and I didn't start training until last week (September 14th ish) so I'm kicking myself in the butt right now. So now that I've finally figured out that I'm running 13.1 miles in less than a month (5 weeks from the time that I started training) I'm starting to train.
Good news is that I only have to keep a 15 minute pace, bad news is that I have to keep a 15 minutes pace. That is about 2 miles running 1 mile walking. At this point I'm almost positive I can do the whole thing at a 15 minute pace which is a relief but I'd like to not be the last person to finish the race so I'm working up to being able to run half of it straight and then running/walking the last 6.55 miles. Whether that's how it works out when it comes to the actual race, we'll see. Right now I'm just praying I don't get a knee or ankle injury in the next 4 weeks.
Well that's pretty much that on the whole half marathon thing.
If I keep up this blogging thing I have tons to talk about with all the stuff we did this summer and with our move to the bay area. For now though pray that I can finish this half marathon in one piece.
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