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We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

Racing Away

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Friday

4 Miles in 35:49 [8:57 per mile]

nice easy run before our race in Carbondale, IL

Saturday

1.08 warmup

3.1 race – 21:45

Yes a 30 second PR. Have you ever ran a race where you PR’d but you weren’t happy with the way you raced? That would be me.

Hopefully next week when we go to Louisville (one of the biggest meets we will go to) it’ll be a better race and a better time.

.95 cooldown

We ate at Quatro’s Pizza afterwards because everyone said it was the place to go in Carbondale. Deep Dish Pizza and it was incredible!

I’’m going to try to post more often, but I am incredibly busy this year with the team. I’m not just a loser sitting in my room all the time haha. I have practice 2 times a day, class until the afternoon, studying and homework each night and hanging out with the team. So I promise I’m not quitting the blog, I just will blog when I have the time.

I haven’t taken pictures lately of my food because I just got into “I don’t want to blog” this week phase.

But here are some that I have taken.

You know, everyday I think about how much I want to live in apartment, mainly so I can cook my own food. It normally goes like this:

If the cafeteria has nothing good to eat – eat pizza, it’s always good.

Therefore I end up eating pizza a lot.

This week Alex and I went to Red Lobster (I’ve never been before) and it was incredible! I ordered the Shrimp Fettuccini and it was so delicious I ate it all. I would say though that for the portion size it was not worth the money. I got a half order and there was about 10 bites if that for 11.99.

Oh Big Brother!

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When I did my Erio’s post I totally forgot to show you my picture of my tortellini! I forgot to add it because I forgot I took a picture!

hah forgive my forgetfulness and bad blogging skills! Doesn’t it look delicious?

moving on to today

Ran at 10am so it was really hot and humid with the sun bright. If the sun wasn’t out it would’ve been gorgeous!!

Run: 2.53 Miles in 20:18 [8:01 per mile]

splits went as follows

8:15
8:02
4:02 @ 7:41 pace

Breakfast was in liquid form hah. Gotta love chocolate milk for recovery after a run! So refreshing.

My brother’s in town and wanted St Louis Bread Company/Panera for lunch so I went with him and we got it to go since Dad wanted to stay at home. So I got french onion soup for lunch. I ate it all…almost!

We watched Big Brother US while eating lunch. I LOVE BRITNEY hahaha she is so funny. Her interpretation of Brendan had me laughing.

Go to 1:16 in the video!! You’ll see what I’m talking about!! She’s so funny. (if viewing in reader, there’s a video here and you’ll have to come to my blog to see it)

Blue Bunny Vanilla Storm ice cream. Probably the best ice cream ever.

Ate this while watching

Totally never thought Toby was really bad. But he does creep me out a bit at times.

hah this show is so addicting and intense. If you aren’t watching it, then you are crazy. Just because it’s good suspense. And fills 45 minutes of my day.

Went to Pink because they are having a deal that if you buy a Pink product you can get a laptop case for $5 and I need one since I’ll be travelling with the team at school. Also I had a free coupon for some lotion with a pink purchase and a $10 off $50 coupon! So here’s what I got!

Most expensive item but it was my “I need to hit 50 dollars to use my coupon. So I don’t feel bad spending 22 for this shirt when really it’ll be 12 with 10 off” and come on it’s my school colors!!

Summery pants, they have beachballs and ice cream cones and you know how much I love ice cream!
18.99 marked down from 32.

back and front of pants.
also 18.99 marked down from 32

The cute laptop case! My laptop just barely fits in it, which is okay I guess haha I was hoping it’d fit better but my laptop is wider than most.

free lotion except it is 2.5 fl oz not 6.7. Smells pretty good.

So I got all of that for $60! Yeah I know that shirt put me a lot over, but it’s worth it. They don’t really sell much for under $10 dollars except underwear and I don’t need that. I also didn’t know how much tax would be, but I like my shirt!!

Obviously an after shot. I don’t normally sweat so much BEFORE a run haha!

Ran again at 8pm. It was hotter than this morning at 10, but felt a lot better since the sun was gone. About 98 degrees out.

Run: 3.5 Miles in 28:29 [8:08 per mile]

splits

8:23
8:10
8:04
.5 – 3:53
bit of some negative splits there.

Recovery

Powerade because I’m saving the Gatorade mix for school.

Put them zensah sleeves on right when I got back! Can you tell by my vein-y feet post run.

That’s all folks!

Don’t forget about my Luna Bars, Sport Beans and Raw Revolution bar giveaway!

Erios Ristorante and Phiten Necklace Review

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Recap and Blog News

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Alright, sorry about the sporadic posting. I promise it’ll actually become a regular schedule once I get to school. I leave Wednesday so just trying to get things together!

Before I do a recap I want to share some things I have in store for the blog.

-Scheduled posts at scheduled times at least around the same time of day
-Updates when I find new products and add them to the shop. I love being able to share the products I use for you all to have the option to buy and the cheaper options at that! amazon definitely has some of the best deals. I’m not about making money from this, but the main reason is to share an easy way to buy the products I use and love! Letting you know when I add products saves you from going to my shop and checking or not having an idea when new products are available!
-More of an idea of my daily life and not just what I eat and run. might not be too detailed, but will be more like a “to do list”
-Post the questions you all ask me and my answers. I comment back to most questions, I try to answer all but sometimes I forget! So this way I can answer them back to you and in case others wanted to know the answer too, they can see without searching for my comment on the questioners blog!

Those are just a few things that will happen once I get to school. Sorry I haven’t commented on blogs very much.

If you have any other suggestions about making this blog better, let me know.

Sometimes I get a feeling it’s too cluttered or things like that!

Alright recap time!!!

Wednesday

Had to go to the oral surgeon to get my dry socket packed from my wisdom teeth removal. So I didn’t have breakfast.

When I got back from my appointment I really wanted to try to run!!

Run: 1 mile at 7:50 pace

Didn’t feel so good so I went back home.

Some chicken fingers and ranch dressing.

Got Trader Joe’s Tortellini over the weekend so I made it!

Sportin my new red laces, phiten necklace and livestrong sports bra!!

Went out on another run.

Run: 1.7 miles in 14:52 @ 8:44 pace

Just a nice and easy run, had some pain in my mouth and stomach so I stopped.

Yesterday (Thursday)

Had to go back again to the oral surgeon to get the packing replaced. So no breakfast again.

Run: 2 miles in 16:32 @ 8:16/Mi pace

Just taking it easy with my mouth so I don’t get an infection and such. Then easing back into running since I took a week off. Doing two a days to get mileage in.

My brother made tuna salad so we had sandwiches for lunch.

Alex and I went and got Froyo!!

We picked up some Jimmy John’s too! I got the Italian Night Club and ate about half of it.

Run: 3 miles in 25:01 @ 8:20/Mi pace

Ran at alex’s house, felt really good.

Then I came home! No you’re all caught up!!!!

Coming up
Review of the restaurant we ate at on my birthday
A little bit more about the Phiten necklaces since I was asked about them!!

My Birthday

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More of a brunch.

Alex arrives with these handpicked from his boss’s garden.

and presents!!

His parents were so nice and got me a card and a $25 dollar giftcard to TJMAXX! Can’t go wrong there!

Then it was his presents!

Nike Ventulus 2’s for cross country/track!! They feel so good with the arch support! Definitely what I need!

Two nike Livestrong sports bras!!

SEMO colored nike shorts!!!

Phiten Titanium necklace!

Then my mom got me a blender and a cute tanktop from Target!

This is the best blender I’ve used! We have it at my house and now I have one for the dorm

My dad bought me an ipod shuffle to use when I run so I don’t have to carry around my regular one!

We went to an italian restaurant near my house that I’ve never been to. I’m going to do a full review on it later so I’ll just tell you that I ordered tortellini and it was amazing!!!

No one was home to take our picture haha!

CAKE TIME!!!! I made my cake!

LOL we only had 9 candles. I actually turned 20, but no one would know that by my looks.

Pretty cake I made It turned out well!!

I really liked Alex’s cake eating attire.

He just got back from a 6 mile run. Making him some chocolate milk for recovery!

I had a really nice birthday! Thank you for all the birthday wishes

It’s my birthday!!!

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I turn 20 today

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Trader Joe’s chocolate croissants. Very good!

Speaking of Trader Joes, I found Paisley the Pig and I got a prize.

Be jealous.

St Louis Bread Co. Tuna sandwich and french onion soup.

My friends brad and elise made me an angel food cake!! Isn’t it cute?!

Then brunch

Papa John’s Spinach Alfredo Pizza with Sausage

The Winner of the giveaway is….

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The Countdown has Started

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Yesterday’s run was a long run that I didn’t get to do on Sunday.

7 miles in 57:46 @ 8:15 pace

Ran at 6:45am. Even though the temperature was really low, the humidity had to be really high because I sweat as much as I do when it’s 90 degrees out. This run took a long time to get into. My arches just hurt so bad from the spikes. Then I have a support training shoe so going from that to a spike and back to that really puts pressure on my arches.

mile 1: 8:44
mile 2: 8:23
mile 3: 8:13
mile 4: 8:13
mile 5: 8:09
mile 6: 7:53
mile 7: 8:14

definitely started feeling better at mile 3, but really at mile 5. The last mile was slower because of the hills in my hood haha. By the time I had already ran 6.5 miles my legs did not want to do .5 of hills back home, so they were sluggish and heavy.

getting my wisdom teeth out wednesday..hoping it won’t take too long to recover so I can still have a good week of training.

Last bowl of Trix!

Cheese tots and XL coney…and yes I ate all of that, except a few tots. Alex wanted some hah. Since he paid for it all, I felt it was okay to share.

Meet Luna! Alex’s family just got a new rottweiler puppy. Isn’t she cute?

Went to Rich and Charlie’s for dinner. They have all you can eat pasta on Monday’s.

I got tortellini (no pictures were taken, sorry) and then I got pasta con broccoli. Tortellini was decent but I didn’t like the pasta con broccoli much.

Their cheesy bread was absolutely delicious and I had like 5 pieces and then their salad is like Pasta House’s salad. So it was pretty good too.

6 days until I turn 20!
1 day until my wisdom teeth are out
7 days until my OpenSky shop opens
12 or so days until I return to school

Weekend Recap!

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Friday

3 miles in 24:39 @ 8:13 pace

Was going to do 4 miles but figured 32 miles for the week would be just as good as 33 and I wanted to just do a nice and easy 3 miler before the race tomorrow. Ran at 9:30am once I got home from alexs. Weather was GORGEOUS!! I also got to run in the rain for the last half. Felt soo good!

mile 1: 8:24
mile 2: 8:05
mile 3: 8:10

Trix of course!

I met up with some high school friends at Steak N Shake for lunch to catch up before going back to college. It was nice to see them again.

I ordered the chicken fingers with cheese fries.

Needed to carb up so we got Chinese and I got Pork Fried Rice. It’s seriously the best rice ever because it has egg in it! And of course I had a crab rangoon and egg roll. I love chinese food.

Sorry the quality was so bad. Phone picture.

Saturday – Race Day

hah, don’t have pictures but I had a banana and a few bites of a chocolate chip clif z bar before my race

Did about a mile warm up and a mile cool down.

Ran the 5k on grass in 22:33. Wasn’t too happy but I guess it’s decent.

#1!!! Our team placed first in the Junior division.

The end of the start line. There was a total of 83 girls/women.

Went back to my friend Brad’s house. Alex made pancakes but I had my eye on the leftover tortellini he got for me the night before.

We went and played mini golf. I got a hole in one but that didn’t help my score at all considering I had lots of 5’s and 6’s. Stupid putting!

We also played some pinball. Then alex and I left and went to my house to watch a movie with my parents.

Zucchini and Tomato Pasta was for dinner. So yummy!

I actually had three pieces of bread!

Sunday

Taco Bell for lunch. Crunchwrap supreme and some cheesy nachos.

I only could eat half of the crunchwrap.

Got caught up on 2 episodes of Big Brother US. UGH Rachel seriously makes me ill. CANNOT stand her!! Kristen is also psycho. But I love Britney haha, she makes me laugh.

BBQ, pasta salad, deviled eggs and corn!

Mom made brownies so I had a big bowl of 2 brownies with ice cream!

So that was my weekend!!

Today is my mom’s birthday too!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! That also means that one week from today is mine!

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So yesterday I was really busy!!

FROYO again!!!

I didn’t have time to get lunch because I was busy with some friends making these!!

For our race on Saturday we made a team of 4 girls (our 5th girl will be in Colorado…so sad) and so we made matching outfits!

We also have matching headbands!

was going to do my MWLR (mid week long run) today but I was busy all day working on kickoff stuff with the girls that I didn’t get to eat lunch because they had already eaten at big river camp. So I didn’t want to do 6 miles on such low energy. I did eat a clif bar in the car on the way home and some triscuits before my run so that my body had some carbs to break down for energy instead of my muscles on the run.

MWLR will be tomorrow.

mile 1: 8:23
mile 2: 8:16
mile 3: 8:00
mile 4: 8:00
.78: 6:00

legs were definitely heavy from yesterdays workout and today’s lack of energy, but they lightened up for the last 2.78 miles. Had to stop in the middle of the run to stretch because my legs were cramping. Some lady across the road yelled at me and asked if I was okay! Very nice of her.