Weekly Recap 2/10-2/16

Monday

Yoga

Weights at home 

Extremely busy day at work to prep for our site visit to San Antonio the following day- didn't get finished tying up loose ends till well after my run group met (and it was freezing) so I skipped the run. Watched the Olympics with the roommate and commentated on the awesome butts on speed skaters and the lackluster excitement of the 1500 skating. Then this happened...f

I might have never mentioned Leah is friends with Sara and Ryan Hall - used to run with Sara and went to their wedding etc. Slightly jealous and definitely ups the roomie's cool factor

Tuesday

No workouts- travel day to San Antonio, TX for work. Naturally as luck would have it we were welcomed with 40 degrees and pouring rain whereas the rest of week was full of sunshine and 70/80 degree weather. Spent the bulk of the day meeting colleagues who will be working on the account I work with, as well as learning the differences of their protocol / processes vs. Nashville. I got hit on which was pretty funny. Rounded out the day with dinner and tons of great food and beer- they even carried Alaskan beer (only certain states carry it) 

Biggest brownie ever and I'm still in awe that I couldn't finish it

Wednesday

p90x Core Synergistics

Travel back to Nashville, was fighting a major headache since the night before so worked from home rest of the day. Roomie and I met up with some folks for dinner and drinks and I added this awesome addition to my pint glass collection (I have over 40) 

Thursday

R.I.P.P.E.D class

Busy day at work. We had our hardest ripped class to date (finally learned what it stood for: resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance, distance) Usual Thursday routine, come home, unwind, watch "The Taste" while making different items in the kitchen. 

Friday- Valentine's Day

Yoga

My Valentine this year (and who am I kidding, every year) was my parents. Mama J made me heart cookies and the parents bought me an awesome daughter necklace. Shaun T was delivered, and I had a bunch of chocolate at the Hot chocolate 15k expo. We won't even go into how I had to pay for parking, $8, and thought I'd use cash- only the machine doesn't dispense change and took my whole $20. (I hate downtown parking) The celebration / anti-celebration would commence on 15th, so 14th was a quiet night at home.

Saturday

Hot Chocolate 15k - Recap to come. Short version- it was incredibly cold and ridiculously hard course. 

Probably the sexiest photo I've posted on this blog to date- promise I'm not that pasty, chose a bad filter

Got my nails did

Started day 1 of T25 with roomie- definitely will be waiting to share the 'before' photos until I can show some progress- day 1 went well, calves a little sore from the run earlier in the day combined with all the jumping in the video.

Rounded out the day by preparing for our Single's get together later that evening. We thought it would be a great idea to embrace our inner college self and make pink panty droppers- 10 beers, half handle of vodka, 6 lemonade concentrates- sweet, but good (although we had several, 1 was enough) 

Sunday

Woke up incredibly sore, but it was in the 50s (compared to day befores 20s), so I had to go for a shakeout run and enjoy the temps. 

4 miles 8:40 pace

Waited for roomie to finish her bike ride then did day 2 of t25. So far the moves aren't terrible, its just some of them are awkward and seeing as we both run, we only work certain muscles. We had a rolling gab session together afterwards- quads, it bands, calves galore

Finished the day by heading to our regional championship trivia tournament... yes sounds silly. 50 teams around Nashville (top 5 teams at each location) were battling it out to make it to the ultimate championship in Tunica, MS in 2 weeks for the chance to win $25,000

Team "Coming in Hot"

Yes I'm the only female. For the championship you're only allowed 5 people, and since I've been around the longest I made the cut, whew. It's nice to know my random knowledge can come in handy at times. I also think its because of my awesome whit and humor I bring every week

It's a "party for your entire mouth"- seriously, who doesn't love these?!?!

:sidenote: proof I'm not pasty white 

At half time we were in 13th place, by the end of 10 rounds we were in 4th (top 6 go to MS). The "final" question is always putting items in order and you wager up to 30 points (if right you keep, if not you lose). I had to pull the executive / bitchy card and say since we were not 100% sure on our answers we were not going to wager any points because since the stakes were so high (and the questions were so difficult), the only teams that would wager are those trying to guess to make it in top 6. Leave it to the female to be right and we only dropped 1 place (an underdog team bet it all and lucked out) and we ended up 5th!!! 

March 1st we're heading to Tunica, MS to play amongst 119 other teams to see who is the grand winner (I'm told told top 3 actually get cash) It will be kind of nice to travel without having a race to run! 

On that note, all my spare time shall be spent studying the internets about presidents, geography, and literature- my 3 weakest categories. 

Total Workouts for the week

Runs (2)13 miles

Yoga 2 days

Weights / videos 5 days

Anything noteworthy in your week?

Fan of poprocks??

Had a hilarious / bad experience with watermelon, but love the other flavors

Do you have any obnoxious drink that takes you back to college?

I'm a beer snob and that is typically what I stick to, however in college it was all about what you could afford. $10 diluted bottle of vodka, 1L of mt. dew, few packets of kool aid and you have "razzle". I might puke if I were to attempt to drink that now. 

Tangent Thursday (olympics)

Between traveling for work + parents in town for 4 days, I stayed away from blog land. As a result I'll probably be posting like crazy to catch up.
Saturday I did my first adventure race- Nashville Muddy Buddy with fellow Nashville blogger / runner Ashley. We both don't like to waste money on entries if we're not really into the race, so we jumped when had the opportunity to have Nuun sponsor us.  You can read the recap HERE-- be forewarned, a LOT of pictures :)

Onto my Olympic tangents ...

1. Last Thursday I flew out to Charlotte for work and brought along this month's Runner's World for companionship. Not only did I read everything cover to cover (rare for me), but I developed a run crush on Ashton Eaton and couldn't WAIT to watch him perform in the Decathalon. Since I've done a few heptathalons, I have a HUGE respect for the women who do heps, and men who do decs--- its challenging because you have to be good at so many different events.

 2. Now I know a LOT of other bloggers out there glued themselves to the tv during Marathon Olympic trials, Boston, or some other big distance race--- I don't get excited about that stuff. Sure I care about the outcome, but I don't need to watch. All of that philosophy is thrown out the window when it comes to Track & Field--- I LOVE LOVE LOVE track and field. Regardless of the event, I'm on the edge of my seat watching. 

3. I forgot that I was taking my parents to Arrington Vineyards Friday night, and Yazoo Brewery Saturday night (we like to consume alcohol), so sadly I missed Eaton's actual performance. Luckily I was able to catch up via you tube and on demand + Monday night they did recap a bit while we were watching the 5000. I'll admit, I CRIED watching him get a PR in his 1500, allowing him to break the world record. 

Did anyone else see Beech slow down to let Eaton pass him as Beech cheered him on--- sportsmanship at its FINEST! 

4. TODAY is a BIG (for me )day to watch the Olympic trials for 2 reasons. 

Dan Huling

• 3000 meter steeple chase--- The winner from Monday's preliminaries was Dan Huling. Dan was on Miami's track team and we hung in the same circle in my early college days. After college up until he got married he was roommates with one of my best friend's from college Eric. It's awesome to see someone I know progress so far. With the fastest time going into the finals, I'm confident I will be cheering for him in the Olympics!

Reason # 2- Jeff See

• 1500m- Jeff is actually younger than myself, but his brother Scott, went to Miami and ran track. Jeff used to visit and they tried to convince him to come to Miami, but alas he went to OSU. Scott was in the same fraternity as my brother Andy, and I may have made out with him a few times. It used to be a standing joke when Jeff would visit on if I would make out with him as well ( I didn't)  I have no idea how he'll do, so it should be interesting to watch nonetheless. 

Photo from right after college L to R- Andrew, Scott See, Dan Huling 

5. Lastly it has to be said--- not only is Nick Symmonds fast as all get out, but he's GORGEOUS

Monday night after watching him CRUSH the 800m, I couldn't stop staring at his really sharp 'shark teeth'- I tried to find a photo, but alas this is the best I could come up with --- equally as hilarious 

I think what intrigued me the most about him was the fact that he called up Paris Hilton's father to be able to ask her out on a date. Really?!?! That's who your heart is after??  Guess people from Idaho don't know they can shoot higher (no offense Cynthia and Brittany) 

Is there anyone out there that you are anxious to see run?

yes I realize swimming is going on right now, but I'll be honest... don't really care.