Yesterday it was time to up my mileage to 8 miles! I was a little skeptical of the number at first, but it ended up not being too awful. I went to the gym and did the first 4 on the treadmill. Around mile 2, as I stared out the window in envy at the gorgeous weather, I decided I would run the final 4 miles in my neighborhood.
Rabbit Trail: What’s the weather like where you are? Here in Georgia it is ridiculously perfect. I’m talking 40′s in the morning and 70′s in the afternoon. I feel like the weather is being such a tease though. Surely another cold snap is coming. I got my sweaters and scarves on hand just in case.
Sorry for ADD-ing on you there. Anyways, I have a 2 mile loop marked off in my neighborhood and figured I would just run it twice. I had just made it off of my street and turned onto the main road. My Ipod was blaring some “Club Can’t Even Handle Me” and I was starting to get me running groove on when this darted out of the bushes:
I wanna eat you!
Ok, so it didn’t quite look like this, but it was a really big black lab and it sprinted out with such vigor that I nearly had a heart attack at the ripe age of 22. I don’t think the wolf dog saw me because it went the opposite direction, but I wasn’t taking any chances. I’m pretty sure I achieved my first sub 7 minute mile after the encounter.
This whole ordeal totally through me off course because I naturally didn’t want to go running on my mapped out loop where the killer dog could find me. So I had to make up a new course as I went. I set my Ipod to my 5K playlist and figured once it ended I would just add on a few more songs and call it a day. Point of the story, I’m not sure if I got the full 8 miles in – might have been a little under or maybe a little over. Oh and also, when I’m running a race, I just need to visualize a rabid dog chasing me to pick up my pace.
Today I worked with Dominique at the gym. You remember Dominique right? He’s the guy who always has the most nutritious meals prepared for work. Well, today he brought in a brand new box of Samoa Girl Scout Cookies. Within the four hour period, he ate the whole box. Yes, the whole thing. I take credit for eating one lone cookie, but the rest was all him. I calculated it for him. He consumed over 900 calories, 49 grams of fat and 70 grams of sugar. As you can see from this picture, it’s clearly starting to get to him.
Mr. Nutritious is in the very back.
I made the usual Sunday trip to Earthfare. For the first time ever, I was let down. I always look forward to getting my Sunday dinner from their hot food bar, but today the food looked like it had been sitting out about an hour too long. So, I opted for a salad from the salad bar. I saw they had new packets of dressing and got very excited when I spotted this:
Nasty dressing...
Yesterday it was time to up my mileage to 8 miles! I was a little skeptical of the number at first, but it ended up not being too awful. I went to the gym and did the first 4 on the treadmill. Around mile 2, as I stared out the window in envy at the gorgeous weather, I decided I would run the final 4 miles in my neighborhood.
Rabbit Trail: What’s the weather like where you are? Here in Georgia it is ridiculously perfect. I’m talking 40′s in the morning and 70′s in the afternoon. I feel like the weather is being such a tease though. Surely another cold snap is coming. I got my sweaters and scarves on hand just in case.
Sorry for ADD-ing on you there. Anyways, I have a 2 mile loop marked off in my neighborhood and figured I would just run it twice. I had just made it off of my street and turned onto the main road. My Ipod was blaring some “Club Can’t Even Handle Me” and I was starting to get me running groove on when this darted out of the bushes:
I wanna eat you!
Ok, so it didn’t quite look like this, but it was a really big black lab and it sprinted out with such vigor that I nearly had a heart attack at the ripe age of 22. I don’t think the wolf dog saw me because it went the opposite direction, but I wasn’t taking any chances. I’m pretty sure I achieved my first sub 7 minute mile after the encounter.
This whole ordeal totally through me off course because I naturally didn’t want to go running on my mapped out loop where the killer dog could find me. So I had to make up a new course as I went. I set my Ipod to my 5K playlist and figured once it ended I would just add on a few more songs and call it a day. Point of the story, I’m not sure if I got the full 8 miles in – might have been a little under or maybe a little over. Oh and also, when I’m running a race, I just need to visualize a rabid dog chasing me to pick up my pace.
Today I worked with Dominique at the gym. You remember Dominique right? He’s the guy who always has the most nutritious meals prepared for work. Well, today he brought in a brand new box of Samoa Girl Scout Cookies. Within the four hour period, he ate the whole box. Yes, the whole thing. I take credit for eating one lone cookie, but the rest was all him. I calculated it for him. He consumed over 900 calories, 49 grams of fat and 70 grams of sugar. As you can see from this picture, it’s clearly starting to get to him.
Mr. Nutritious is in the very back.