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. 

Ryan Hall and kickball!

First off a Huge thank you to all the amazing comments, texts, facebooks, and best of all Kim's angry "what is wrong with guys" voicemail, in regards to yesterday's post. Although the "men" topic of change was short, lots picked up on the significance and it means  the world to me that I do have a virtual support group of ladies I can turn to when life isn't always peachy.

Monday we had our weekly night run with fleet feet and what I was told was going to be  a "slow easy run" turned into us speeding up and mile 3 clocking in at 7:20--- good news is I was somewhat able to talk while doing it, bad news is I couldn't hang and got left in the dust. Afterward a bunch of us sat around for 1.5 hours talking and eating. One of the gals, Ashley (who is in the process of trying to qualify for elite status at Chicago- which is 1:21:59 or lower) is on team Oiselle and although she doesn't blog, we were laughing at all the Oiselle ladies we stalk via blog land Difference between her and I is I know the details via their blog, and she's actually met them all... details. Apparently she is the only person on the team representing TN so she's trying to convince me to apply-- I'm not on the same level of any of the other ladies in terms of speed, is that okay? After about 20 minutes of chatter around that, I told her I would think about it.

Later it came out from my super awesome roommate Leah (how this came up in conversation I cannot remember)  went to Ryan Hall and Sara Hall's wedding... ya no big deal. Apparently her and Sara ran track together in college and were good buddies and still talk to this day.

Naturally I was all like "oh my God how are you THIS awesome, you have so many cool points in my book" blah blah blah (sadly that really did come from my mouth)

She mentioned that one of his sponsors is Nissan and their HQ is 400m or so from where I work. She said next time he comes to town she will invite him to our Monday night runs--- wait WHAT?!?! Then I jokingly said how cool that would be, but nearly not as cool as having her and her roommate take him out to dinner to which her response was "I'm totally going to ask him!"

Ladies and gentleman, I have hit the roommate jackpot and girl crush commences... 

If / When this happens, I'll try to keep my cool, but no promises.

In other less exciting to you, but still exciting to me news...

My Tuesday night kickball team FINALLY won a game. This is a huge deal as we are last in the league. We are a 'free agent' team which means we all signed up not knowing anyone and the Nashville Sport's League put the team together. It's not that we're bad, its just everyone else has been playing and practicing together for years and we're just trying to figure out one another's strengths and weaknesses. We only had 9 show up and you need 10 to play, but we convinced the ref we were okay and low and behold, it worked---- booyah

one of our girls left before we could take the photo

I'm also on a work league kickball team that has yet to play a single game due to rain out everytime its our turn. Our first rescheduled game is tomorrow and naturally its storming all day today, so looks like it might be another week--- oh mother nature how you like to play games. 

Anything exciting going on in our week?