1. I did 100 squats on Tuesday. Why? Julie did it last week, and silly me thought it sounded like fun. On Wednesday, I could easily walk and squat and do all sorts of leaps through the air (because that’s how I normally saunter around). On Thursday, I could barely move. It was bad. Did I mention I had to run 9 miles today? Yikes.
2. I’m always all “oh look at me, I’m a neat freak! I like a clean house. I put up my nose at a sink full of dirty dishes. I make the Husband make the bed at 9 PM some days.” What I fail to tell you is that my car and my purse are atrocious. Like, seriously and legitimately disgusting. Wrappers. Garbage. Starbuck’s cups (in the car, not the purse). This drives the Husband bonkers. Part of me thinks I am subconsciously doing it because his office clutter drives me bonkers. Another part of me thinks I just don’t care if my car is clean.
3. I don’t know about you, but when I go into a long run, I always go in thinking, “meh, 9 miles isn’t that long.” Um, I’m here to tell you folks that it really is that long. Whoever came up with that thought process was a sick sick fool.
4. Some things I thought on my run today: “I only have to do this 3 mile loop 3 times.” “I wonder if the Husband took the garbage out today.” “My massage tomorrow is going to feel so so good.” “Who thought of hummus? Whoever they were, they were a genius.” “I wonder if these people think I’m crazy because I have ran past them three times now.”
5. My hands are officially orange from all of my sweet potato and pumpkin consumption. I decided to lower it down a notch and eat a white potato today.
6. I am taking my 10 year old niece out for a girls’ afternoon out for her birthday, which was on Monday. We’re going out for lunch and shopping – Exciting!
7. It’s about to be a wild Friday night up in here. I’m catching up on all the good ones – Modern Family, The Middle, and Up All Night. I might even read a few new pages of my new book, Chasing Amanda.
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8. Did anyone else want to kill their sinuses today? I could barely drive this morning the pressure was so intense. Then, I felt really wonky all morning. I hope that’s not a precursor of things to come!
9. I ran my 9 miles in 1 hour and 18 minutes today, which is um…. faster than I ran my 8 miles last week. Who am I?
10. Happy Friday.
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I’ve always found that pushing through a run really helps recover from the whole can’t-walk-thing a la lunges. Do you feel better now?!
I do feel better! We’ll see how I feel in the morning.
Fun Facts Friday is a great idea! I have purple tinted hands have made beet n chocolate muffins 2 DAYS AGO! Orange would be a welcome change! I have my little 3 year old niece tomo for the night, I thought I had a few more years until she was in to shopping but she proved me wrong as she dragged me round the shop the other day picking out matching PJs, socks and slippers for her sleepover! Happy Friday!
I can honestly agree with almost everything on here.
1. Sometimes I get sore the day after too! It’s like it takes a little bit to process how much we really worked ourselves, weird.
2. I had a white potato for dinner tonight too because I have been out of control with pumpkin. I’m pretty sure I had pumpkin oatmeal way too many times even though it was 97 degrees out.
3. My purse is the worst. I have 971 gum wrappers and old receipts and a bunch of junk and carry it around like I have so much important stuff in it. When in reality it just is a big purse of junk.
4. I love who created hummus.
Congrats on your 9 miles!!
My allergies have been really bad too!
Happy Friday!
NICE RUN GIRL!!! You are gonna kill it at your race!! You’re doing a half right?!? If so, congrats! That is gonna be such a big accomplishment!
Yes - but not until January!!
You are a rock star. I am doing 100 squats for sure!
Don’t do it unless you feel like being chairbound for two days!
Congrats on your 9 miler! WOOHOO! Good start to your weekend.
I went for a massage today. Went to one of those student institutes that are WAYYY cheaper. By goly why haven’t I been going to these all of my life?! So much cheaper. Yet just as good. I’m officially hooked.
WOW!!! You are fast girl!!! That is AMAZING time!!! Have a great weekend!
It always takes that extra day for a really intense workout to catch up with me. It’s like my body is saying, “Haha. Gotcha. You thought your strength workout was all fancy. Well now you can’t walk or lift your arms above your head. Take that, crazy.”
My Friday night? Watching a “best of SNL in the 90s” thingy on VH1. Gosh I’m so cool.
Watching Modern Family now. Love this show! Still need to catch up on The Middle. And Up All Night is amazing! Do you watch Happy Endings? It’s pretty funny.
I always love going shopping with my aunt! I’m sure you and your niece will have a blast
Happy Friday!
Great run time, Speedy Gonzales
LOVE Modern Family and Up All Night…sounds like you have a great night ahead of you. I’m even a little jealous!
Nice job on the long run! Aren’t you training for a 1/2? When is it?
Awesome time on the run! My old car used to be a mess, always. Now I have a brand new one and I can’t stand when it gets messy!
congrats on that FAST running, wow!!
“Um, I’m here to tell you folks that it really is that long. ” <- YES!!!
which is why i am always amazed at all these bloggers/runners who get up and crank out 10 miles a day or that 8 miles is their "short" day or similar stories. I can run for about 30-45 minutes before I think to myself, gosh, how much longer…which is why I don't race anymore and if I do, I don't "train". I wing it and show up on race day and run my race at whatever pace happens.
Yeah, I definitely could NOT pull out runs like that every day!
Haha my purse and car are so gross too but I come across as the biggest NEAT FREAK alive. It’s like Monica’s “closet” on that one episode of Friends. Dirty little secrets.
You go girl! Um, and watching Modern Family on a Friday sounds fabulous. It made me LOL on Wednesday
oh my gosh - the part where Cam ripped the cabinet off the hinges made me almost pee my pants.
10 miles in an hour…jeeze i run for 30 min a day and i wanna die lol. Do you run everyday?
Nope - 3, maybe 4 times a week!
I wonder who did invent hummus….hmmm….
Way to go! I’ll be running 8 miles tmrw moring whoop ha
First long run by myself! I agree though sooo many things run through your mind during runs. Food is usually at the top of my list lolz.
I also did a bunch of squats! 248 in 20min. Thanks to bodyrock.tv. Talk about intense stuff!
Good luck! And I love BodyRock TV!
Look at you, speedy girl! That is an awesome time! Those squats sound like they were deadly. Love it.
congrats on the great time for your run! I’m jealous, my knees hurt me so much after my run yesterday that I’m going to have to put off my 7 mile run this weekend… I was so excited too because I’ve never run that far. oh well, better to lay off it now than injure myself worse! haha and I love the things you think when running! haha I like to imagine the people around me dancing to the music i’m listening to… it’s pretty amusing.
Totally agree! If my legs still hurt really bad, I would not have done it!
I do squats with my kids at school— we count by 10′s and go to 500 (mandatory) if you’re tough you hand in and finish down to 0 with Mrs. H….. I usually don’t get any takers. What’s the deal?!?!
Are you for real?
Heavens yes I’m for real!!!
We do morning exercises and talk about how our muscles, heart rate, and breathing are all tied together. Pretty sure my class could tell you the science behind muscle fatigue. We exercise like that every morning, it helps them learn so much better and we have some fun!
I think I may have to try that!!
That’s exactly how our Friday night was spent- watching Fringe, New Girl, and The Secret Circle. I love Modern Family!
I am the same way with my car. I literally let it get disgusting, and then clean it…like once a year. eww.
You are Ms. Speedy Gonsalez with that run time- fab job! I have my 7 miler coming up next week after AGES and I’m counting on Tina Fey (audiobook) to keep me entertained! My handbag looks like a bombsite too-> it’s full of receipts which I refuse to chuck out…better safe than sorry, I”m thinking! Have fun with your neice-> I’m on my sister’s case to make me an aunty ASAP!
Aahhh! (My phone tried to auto-correct me into saying aghast…weird…) you are super speedy! Nine miles in 1:18! Send some of that quickness my way! I love these random facts because they are so relatable…messy car and Modern Family…yes please.
I love this post
LOL @ ‘I wonder if these people think I’m crazy cos I’ve run past them 3 times now?!’
“who ever thought of hummus was a genius” I loled!
My sinuses have been crazy too! I hope you feel better and all of this pressure lifts!!!
Great job on the run… Love that you ran 3 loops…Im pretty sure people were wondering why you keep running by them…
xoxo from Trinidad
1.) You are hysterical.
2.) I wish you could tell my father about your car because mine is always neat and he seems to think that it’s a disaster. This is because he is OCD about cars.
3.) Modern Family rules.
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Congrats on your 9 miles! Um yeah I totally agree that is FAR! On some days even just 3 miles seems like a marathon to me.
Hahaha your car sounds exactly like mine! I think I still have a Starbucks cup in there from August!
I think I would have love hate relationship with 100 squats. lol. To prevent myself from turning orange, I bought yellow carrots at the store this week.
Julie Bowen is a fox…there, I said it. I think she is soooo gorgeous and her character cracks me up so much!!! My hubby and I only started season 2 of it, but can’t wait to get caught up!
I love your fun facts friday posts! Have a great weekend!
It’s funny cuz that pic of the girl and the (seal? walrus?) ….she looks kind of like Julie, huh?
PS- Nine miles is…like, whoa.
Three miles is like…whoa.
I, as a non runner, am constantly amazed at how many HLB peeps are like “I did a quick 5 miler to pass the time…”
LOL. You ARE amazing.
Two, Three, Five - YES YES YES!!!
I can’t wait to have a niece for exactly that reason - I hope you girls had fun together!