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Half Crazy

12 Friday Jun 2015

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So I just picked up my race packet for tomorrow’s half marathon! No 10k option

…so I started writing this waiting for the ferry. I was told I would make the ferry but didn’t. The line I was in didn’t move WTF WASHDOT?! The guy at the booth acted like it was no big deal but it was the next ferry was over an hour and a half later. I had to drive and got home just 15 minutes before that ferry would’ve. I not only missed picking the kids up but was late for my shift at the bar!….
It was a stressful crazy day! I have a race tomorrow I am excited but definitely mess than prepared. The Hubs and I blew up at each other and are obviously stressed I so need my 13 mile run tomorrow to release some stress! Can’t wait for Sunday we have family football fest and can just enjoy the day no rushing back for a schedule.
I need to get back to cuddle time with the hubs and get to bed soon to be ready for the race! Wake up time is 5am!

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10k Done Time for Fun!

17 Sunday May 2015

Posted by in Don't judge me, Sex, Sex Love and Washing Clothes

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Sitting at Rock Bottom Brewery in Portland after running the 10k at Rock and Roll Portland. It was an internal battle this morning deciding if I should do the full 13.1 miles of the half marathon course or the 6.2 miles in the 10k course. The Two courses were completely different this year, last year at mile 4 or 5 there was a turn you could go left to do the 10k or straight to stay on the half marathon. I had until then to decide. This year the half and the 10k started at different start lines at different times. Since I have 3 massages on Tuesday and have been having some foot and hip issues and did not train as well as I should have I decided to do the 10k.n This was after a bit of toiling and tears from me. I didn’t want to give up or be a quitter! I don’t think I was. I am still a bit sore from the run. The last time I ran was a week and a half ago! It was a good call doing the 10k.

So now it is time to party and have fun in Portland. The Hubs and I love it here in Portland. After lunch we went to the Nike store (I paused on my post earlier now finishing at the hotel) and to the Microsoft store where the Hubs bought me a new Surface for my birthday! Yay me! I even got to get a girly purple key board 😉 So I am finishing my post on my new Surface!

Later we are going to go out and have some fun. We are heading to The A-crop for dinner and drinks and entertainment. We definitely have fun here! It is a good couples weekend for us! We have needed a reboot for a while and now we have it! That’s why I run this race every year! We get to come to another state, stay in a hotel and have hotel sex and go to strip clubs and have a drink and just have fun. I love watching the dancers they mostly pretty talented. The Hubs enjoys watching the girls get all flirty with me. I sometimes get shy, but the girls like having couples in they have fun with us and we have fun with them. Then we get back to the hotel and have some amazing hotel sex!

I highly recommend a date night to strip clubs. If you are shy stay back for a while and if you get brave go up to the rail. I have been going and enjoy strip clubs but sometimes I have to hang back until I get my barings in the place. Don’t get jealous because you are there with your man and he is not comparing your body to the dancers. You should just sit back and relax and play along! (The Hubs’s friends are all jealous that he gets to take me to the clubs) Just have fun and make it a couples night! We are going to!

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Just Run, Ready for RnRPDX

17 Sunday May 2015

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Happy Saturday!!! So to update you all from yesterday I am happy to say that I passed my bartending test. I got a 99% on the written and 100% on the practical with a time of 7:02, that is for 12 drinks! I am ready to go to work! It was fun learning a new craft!

As we speak we are in the car heading to Portland! I am doing the Rock and Roll Half Marathon tomorrow. Actually I think I am going to do the 10K due to the fact that I have not trained like I wanted to, I was sick this week, and I have a foot issues going on. But I may decide, once I get out there, that I want to keep going! We’ll see. I am preparing myself mentally for the 10k if I feel good I will keep going on the 13.1 miles which I think is a 21k but if not I will allow myself to feel accomplished at the 10k finish line as well.

Race against the voice that wants to quitAfter such a long week I have not got a chance to get in my mode of race week. I usually and super excited and focused on good nutrition and such not this week I have been too busy and stressed. I finally got everything done, house clean, baseball scored and finished, (they won, yay) packed, car loaded and we are rolling so I am just now getting excited! I can’t wait! I love the energy of the start line, not as much as the energy at the finish line! Right now in this moment I am not ruling out running the full half (haha, that sounds funny). I am not ready to concede to the shorter distance but you know sitting here thinking (blogging) about it and actually doing it is different. I get a lot of confidence in my ability as I talk about it! I am feeling good and can’t wait.

I am having a hard time finding the right words to express my excitement. I love running. I love beating myself and by that I mean beating that voice that says “this is too hard” or “you will never accomplish anything like that you aren’t good enough.” Maybe that is why I come back to it every year! Well, I come back to the Portland race for strip clubs after, but I need to, for some reason. I need running to prove to myself that I can do it. That I can do something hard and finish and that hard work pays off it’s proven in that medal that they put around my neck. That is why the medal is so important to runners! That is our proof that we did something hard! Actually it our proof to show others that we did something hard. Our proof to ourselves is the sore muscles!  I can’t wait to conquer that course tomorrow! By conquer I mean cross the finish line!Slower than a herd of turtles

If you have never done a race I challenge you! Even if is walking and not running there is nothing like seeing your hard work pay off and that medal going around your neck is such a palpable of a feeling of accomplishment! It doesn’t matter how fast or how slow you did it. YOU DID IT!!! There is nothing else in life so rewarding, except for having a baby that is a finish line like no other but you can’t repeat those kinds of finish lines don’t happen every year (unless you’re Michelle Duggar).

So I am going to sit back and be excited for tomorrow. I have to decide what I am going to eat. Something not to ‘unhealthy’ but also something that will give me fuel to sustain tomorrow’s morning race! Check back tomorrow I will post my finish time and maybe a picture of my favorite running sign (I love marathon signs so if you are in Portland make a sign and come watch!) Have a great night, if you are also running the race good luck and have fun! Enjoy your finish line moment!

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