3 Things

I love burnt bagels, which leads me to this post.
Do you ever play 3 things or did I just make it up? Today it goes like this...

1 thing you like
1 think you dislike
1 totally random thing

I like burnt bagels. I ate a burnt bagel this afternoon. An everything bagel, scooped out (not to avoid the calories but because they burn easier when they're thin), double toasted (crunchy and burnt!!), topped with cream cheese, capers and tomato slices. I inhaled this too quickly to take a snapshot, but the picture below shows my dream bagel.

Sometimes I just want carbs and nothing else will do. This afternoon, that was the case and I had to give into the craving.

I dislike laundry. I hate it actually. I hate it so much that I avoid it. I don't fold my clothes after I do laundry either. I leave them in a heap on the floor next to the bed or in the laundry basket. My fiance loves it...NOT! It makes for a messy room and when you live with someone who is super clean and neat, they get mad.

My pile piles of clothes are way less tidy that the above picture. That doesn't look so bad, actually.

Something random...I love gallery walls in homes. I can't wait to have one when we move. We currently rent and I can't see us banging 100 holes in the wall for a gallery that we'll eventually have to take down and patch. But, they are so welcoming and lovely, and they tell a story. Oh, I swoon for them.

Just for good measure.

Race Recap

This past Saturday I ran the Frederick Half Marathon. This year the half marathon was the main event, which I was really excited about. I've only ever run in a half marathon that also features a full marathon. Whenever I go to the expo to pick up my packet, I feel like I'm "only doing the half", but this year we were the 'big dogs'! They also changed the course a bit and I really liked it. A majority of the course was shaded and it's a very scenic and quaint area.

I had 2 goals for the race:
1. To not get sick afterwards
2. To come in under 2 hrs

Unfortunately, I only accomplished one of these goals.

Goal#1(TMI alert)
To not get sick after the race. I have been know to get the 'running trots' and they are especially severe after I finish a race. I've been trying to pinpoint triggers and have found that dairy is definitely one of them. The whole week leading up to this particular race, I cut out dairy. Garlic is another, so I try to shy away from Italian food the night before a race.

Race Meals for Frederick:
*Race dinner was stir-fry veggies and chicken over a heap of brown rice.
*Race Breakfast was Old Fashioned Oats, Brown Sugar, Peanut Butter and frozen peaches, microwaved for 3 minutes. I also had half a cup of coffee and some Vita-CoCo Coconut Water.
*Post Race was a Luna Bar

I have found the winning combination! I didn't get sick at all. Not during or after the race. Not even a delayed 'oh god I have to go' feeling. Wooooo!

Goal#2
Unfortunately, I came in just shy of my goal time at 2:02. I absolutely know that I can beat 2 hrs. I know I have it in me. I think I was so preoccupied with the fear of getting sick that I ran the race instead of racing it. I felt some mind cramping in my lower abdomen at mile 9 and decided to cut back my pace. I walked through a few water stations and I know that these two factors added the two minutes to my final race time.

All in all, I really enjoyed the race. I hope to do it again next year and set a PR...I also hope to get a new running outfit and to learn a new pose other than the thumbs up.

Todays breakfast was Overnight Oats.
*Old Fashioned Oats
*Almond Milk
*Almond Butter
*Pumpkin Pie Spice (McCormick)
*Two scoops of Mango Chobani Yogurt
*Chia Seeds

The Hungry Runner Girl giveaway

The Hungry Runner Girl is giving away a pair of New Balances!

Janae writes one of the funniest blogs out there. Sometimes I think that if I lived in Utah, we'd be BFF's.

Checkout her giveaway:
http://www.hungryrunnergirl.com/2011/05/shoe-giveaway.html

Hello World

Welcome!

I'm so excited to finally be a part of the blogging community. I think I joined the wagon a little late, but I guess it's better late than never. Hey, I just got a smart phone last month. I'm never exactly ahead of the times.

I'm pretty much blog obsessed, so I decided I should give it a shot. I don't know if I have much to say, but I hope someone will listen :) Plus, I heard that when you repost giveaways on your own blog you get an extra entry and HELLO I want to WIN! All kidding aside, I will say that the health & fitness blogging community seems so tight-knit and supportive. I just love it and I hope to one day be a part of it.



A few facts about me...
*I love cats
*I ran x-country in high school, but I wasn't very good
*I'm a Hokie
*I just learned to letterpress and I'm in love
*I love designing
*80% of my possessions are thrift store finds
*I eat a lot and sometimes I'm embarrassed by how much food I can consume in one sitting
*I'm messy
*I will not always be grammatically correct
*I want to go back to school
*I'm marrying my high school sweetheart in a few months
*I love running and fitness



I hope that you will come back to get to know me better!