September 2011
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i'm all twitterpated
yep totally made that up….twitterpated - ha!! i totally crack myself up!! anywho i am on twitter now as vickens8 - if you have twitter let me know and i’ll come find you - i’ve already found a few of you ;)
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Ok I decided to finally do twitter! I know right how long did that take me…soooo, I need a good name and I suck at coming up with them any thoughts??
August 2011
50 posts
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“Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only...”
– Tim Noakes, author of Lore of Running
Working on putting the calories back
2 eggs, 1/2 and avocado and a huge handful of spinach and I’m still hungry :/ looks like it is a gluten free English muffin kinda day!
2x(4x400) = ice on knee
yeah well, i did my best on this one knee is still feeling the weekends mileage - i did the first 4x400 no problem - the 2nd i ended up only doing 3x400 and basically sprinted the straights and walk/jogged the curves on the track - but yeah i pushed it as far as i could and for that i am happy. followed this up with some mountain climbers and some planks and then some push-ups. now i am icing...
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when the going gets tough
and i feel like i want to quit and feel like i won’t be able to actually finish my marathon, when my knee hurts (yep icing it right now), when i’m tired and just want to eat pizza….i am reminded of a quote by my favorite bosom buddy (sure hope someone gets that reference)
It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes...
note to self: eat more
i know right, what a weird note to self. I was super exhausted today and basically felt like i was going to pass out all day - my co-worker said i was super pale and pasty most of the day. i ended up leaving early today because of it.
here is what i think. i think i did not eat enough food on sunday after the 14miler and then not enough food today to make up for it either….it is so...
i am starving
i definitely did NOT bring enough food with me to work today!! i may need to get more food….
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that's so far
i ran 14miles today at mile 12.5 my IT band/knee decided it was done - i kept trying and yep no it decided that i could speed walk, but there would be no more running - but i didn’t give up and my ass still did 14miles and that is the farthest i have ever run. it felt good - actually it was funny…we ran into a 5k around mile 10 and everyone was walking and we were like…huh,...
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no pilates for me
i woke up this morning with the worst headache - still have it actually! i am not happy about that as i had a bunch to do today and right now a lot of it isn’t getting done. first up was a 8:30am pilates class i wanted to try at my gym, stayed in bed for that - then i was supposed to go to a video shoot at 10am - well it’s 10am and here i am typing about my stupid shitty...
No 6miles
Well I didn’t get my 6miles in today - the guy is now on a fishing trip and well the dog just can’t make 6miles and since I overslept this am I didn’t get done - the revised plan is 3miles in the morning and then 3miles tomorrow night. The pup can do 3 and the guy will be back tomorrow night so I will be able to do a harder 3 at night - I know you are asking yourself why I...
ACK!!!!
Only 65 more days until Marine Corp Marathon!!!!!!!!
afternoon smoothie
i usually have a smoothie in the morning, but recently i’ve been wanting eggs. i decided that i will still have my smoothie, but instead have it in the afternoon….and today i made the yummiest smoothie EVER!! seriously check this out!
banana, almond milk, almond butter, ice cubes, chocolate whey protein powder, a tiny bit of coco powder and wait for it……one starbucks via...
Teehee!
@robin - thank you!! You are too sweet
@Devon - yep will do! Unless they turn out crappy!
@Katie - thank you too!!
And thank you everyone else - y’all are too kind :) luv you guys! Mwah! And now I am finally off to Harry potter
NSV - I should of done this a while ago
I have gotten so many compliments on my hair it is crazy! The other thing that is crazy is completely changing my hair has changed how I look at myself. Before I would look in the mirror and see old Vicki - before i started doing tri’s before i lost 50lbs - I still, well I still saw the fat 15year old Vicki. Not the 33 year old woman who has worked her ass off and accomplished so much, but...
"recovery" swim
last night i met Devon and her roommate at the local pool for our lap swim i got there a little before them and decided to jump on in and swam for about 30minutes before i realized they were at the pool…then i talk to them a bit and we all split up and did lap swim. i finally got out of the pool around 9:20 after doing my last 500 - i’m not sure what part of me was like...
work out partners are so great
so today after the 13.1 miles yesterday i probably would of slacked off and not gone to the gym this morning, but my friend (and hair stylist) promised me on friday when she cut all my hair off that she was going to join the gym and work out with me. she said i inspired her (how sweet is that!). my alarm went off i got out of bed, put on the gym clothes, texted her and then went to the gym and...
3rd half marathon
this one was different though than the first two - there were no race numbers, no water stops, no finishers medals, only three friends (two crazy wonderful ones and one training for a marathon) running to breakfast on the other side of the city. we left about 8:30am and set off to breakfast in georgetown which is on the south end of the city of seattle. the morning was sunny, very sunny and...
So much fun!!
Ok so the great urban race was so much fun - it is a great way to see the city and go places you never would and today Seattle has some perfect weather - I’ll post some pics later. The thing that was so great was we didn’t do it to win we did it to have fun! I mean we stopped and shared a cupcake and stopped and bought a Seahawks tshirt during the race - it was all about having fun!...
wow!! thanks!
seriously - thank you everyone for such amazingly nice notes on the hair cut…it was kinda crazy for me - i mean i have basically had the same hair cute since i was 15 maybe earlier - i cut bangs once for a while and that was about it - so it’s gonna take some getting used to….it is so weird to not have anything on my neck anymore and i haven’t figured out what to do with it...
tomorrow something crazy happens
and you are going to have to wait until then to find out and also in the grand scheme of life it isn’t too crazy - but for me it is actually crazy!
and now i drink water to nurse my headache - i think i may drink a cider to help me sleep…yeah my world has been like that that last few days. i haven’t been sleeping well, which means i haven’t been making it to the gym in...
crazy day
today was a super crazy day at work and i am so glad i got to ride my bike to work, but unfortunately i didn’t get to ride it home :( i had the pup and well the dog running next to me while i ride in city traffic is just not a good idea….oh and it is 6.33 miles he would be too happy with me if i did that to him.
i was so f’n busy that i didn’t have enough time to eat my...
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note to self: pasta
do not eat pasta - it makes you freak out…yeah i know this sounds weird, but my body is not used to it anymore and right now i am having a massive anxiety attack and yeah i know it is pasta related! so note to self - you may have italian blood and be from NJ, but you can’t eat pasta anymore unless it is gluten free - so rice noodles are ok - but really just stay away from it and all...
cheat meal
i was feeling like macaroni and cheese and i get one cheat meal a week so tonight was it! i am so going to regret it in the morning, but i sure don’t regret it right now! It was beechers macaroni and cheese - now if you haven’t ever heard of or had beechers i really can’t explain the goodness that it is. locally made cheese from their yummy shop in the pike place market - oh...
umm...wow
first off wow!! hi new followers!
last night was recovery swim - oh how i love recovery swim or really any swimming and last night was especially fun as i got to hang out with the awesome Devonrunning - she is doing her first tri in september and we worked on some swimming technique to help her out on the swim portion. first i have to say that Devon is super sweet and nice and if you...
12 done and the mole is cooking
12 miles are done and now the mileage just keeps going up from here until the week before the marathon 11 more weeks - woot!
my IT band decided it hated me again today - i think the road trip and sitting in a car for many hours and not stretching was my downfall as my last 12 miles two weeks ago there was no IT band pain.
i had a total NSV while running today - i got really hot and started to...
3hr walk done
just did a nice 3hr walk with a friend of mine - it wasn’t fast, but it was nice and since i have 12miles at 8am tomorrow there was no part of me that wanted to do it fast. now i am hungry though and it is flank steak night - woohoo!!
Look what i just found →
seriously i love my crock-pot and i just found the paleo crock-pot mecca!! woohoo!!!
edit: the website kinda sucks - should of looked more at it - there are only like 5 recipes…i was so excited :(
and i think my brain has stopped for the day
cause i have gotten nothing done the last hour or so and all i keep thinking is i haven’t seen harry potter yet and want to go see it…i am pondering if anyone will notice that i have disappeared for a few hours if i just went to see it and then came back to work ;)
feeling a little better
or i am just in denial about the amount of work i have to do…but i did ride my bike into work today and that means i get to ride it home too :) and tomorrow i am going on a long walk with a friend of mine and then sunday is 12mile run - i am hoping to do the run that we did two weeks ago that i almost passed out somewhere between mile 11 and 12 and this week i am going to kicks it’s...
i feel like i am doggie paddling
so since we had layoffs at work my work load has pretty much doubled and right now i feel like i am barely keeping my head above water and i also feel like i am putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle that a whole bunch of the middle pieces are missing so it is either a bunch of kittens or starry night….it’s been really hard and i haven’t even caught up from my vacation yet. i am...
Yuck
The guy that sat next to me on the bus smells like an ashtray my nose and healthy lungs are offended :(
well this bummed me out... →
but this quote from Diana Nyad is the best part of the whole story:
“I was the best person I could be … that’s the message. I dug down, I dug deep …”
that is what is all about - be the best you can be (wait isn’t that the army slogan? - no wait that is be all you can be nevermind). i need to remind myself to do that more often to dig down deep into the...
i'm back...
so vacation was good - a LOT of driving was done and i am exhausted from it. good thing i don’t have to go back to work until wednesday. i ate a fair amount of crap, as eating paleo on a road trip is at times really hard, but i did stay gluten and mostly diary free for the trip. my friend is all married now and was a beautiful bride and i am so happy for her, she was glowing with love and...
