Almost Wordless Wednesday

I have been seeing a lot of posts about a day in the life....thinking about doing one of those soon!  Until then here are two pics for the week!

 This is where I have been spending my Wednesday nights for the last 9 weeks....and I have to admit that I LOVE it!!!   Never thought I would be it's great!

And what Wednesday would be complete without at least one pic of Miss Em.....

Doing her happy dance in the flowers!!!

Have a great Wednesday all!!

Monday Motivation

Dedicating this week to making choices that make me the best version of me!!!  Who's coming with me?

Fitness Friday-FOMO Syndrome

Hi all and welcome to another Fitness Friday!!!  We had an inservice today....and by George it was actually useful!!!  I didn't walk away feeling like I had just given away a day of my life I could never get back!!  However this leads to my late posting and link up to Jill's blog hop!! 

Long hours of listening however did allow me to think of the topic of FOMO Syndrome or Fear Of Missing Out Syndrome.  I first heard this term on others blogs and I never thought I had it....until recently.  I find that I join every challenge I can find and run or at least want to run every race I read about.  I love the challenge...yes...but I also don't want to miss out!!  I am atributing this to being the youngest and have a sister who is 6 1/2 years older than me (even though she looks younger than me!!!).  I always wanted to be hanging out with her friends, doing what they were doing.  It even lead to my sister locking me in the closet one day before her friends came over.  Don't cry for me though....it was a huge walk-in closet and I had tons of toys and such inside...I guess the joke was on her!  In high school I was on every team, every club, everything!!  Yeah you see the pattern too??!!!  I guess I always have had FOMO Syndrome!! 

Fast forward to today....we are creating a new district....two are merging and committees are being formed....yeah and up comes FOMO!!!   I can handle that one....I'll find a committee on Tuesday.  Handled....then it comes....a few colleagues are talking next to me about races(they aren't talking about it with me since I am newer and not many know of my obsession love of running)...talking about marathons....and it comes up FOMO large and in charge!  Ahhhhh!!  I want to run another one too!!!  I want to compare aches and pains!!!  But alas it's not my time.  It's just not the right time for my family but that unfortunately doesn't keep FOMO coming up and kicking me in the shins!!

Do you get FOMO?  How do you deal with it??

Oh and MAJOR shout outs to all of you heading off to pound the pavement in Chicago this weekend!!!  Go ROCK Chi town!!!  Are you running a race this weekend?  Let me know so I can wish you a rocking race!!!

Three Things Thursday

Good morning all!!  Welcome to another random edition of Three Things Thursday!! 

1.  

On Saturday I will be picking up my dusty glove and putting on my cracked cleats to play in an alumni softball game.  This is part of my 10 year reunion for college!!  For those of you who don't know, before running took over my competitive life, I was a softball player.  I played for 15 years all the way through college.  It was an amazing experience in my life and something that was used as a tool in my life for so many things.  I am so looking forward to seeing all my girls again however, I am honestly nervous about stepping up to the plate again.  Let's just say its been a while since I picked up a bat and since we're playing the current team....it could be ugly!

2.  Picking up the pace.....I know I gush about my running group all the time but I just love it!  I don't usually wear my Garmin and even when I do I can't seem to figure out pacing since we stop and go a lot.  Well last night I was cruising along during one of our intervals and a person from the other group came up to run next to me.  He told me I was doing a great job and holding a 6:32 pace.....WHAT?!!!  I replied something along the lines of not having an excuse now for slower race times!  I was beyond psyched.  I know it was just a short interval (90 seconds) but I wasn't laboring and it was a boost in confidence for me!

3.  Wanna be my friend?....Ok so don't know much about organizing these things but if you are on the South Shore to the Islands or anywhere close to here in Massachusetts (or even if you live far away) and would like to have a meet-up let me know!  I think it would be great to get together and have fun!  Let me know any ideas you have!!!  Maybe we could all do a race or something fun....or maybe no running and we could look all pretty and what not!  The possibilities are endless!!!

Totally Random Tuesday

My legs are still pretty sore from Sunday (random) so I did a slow 6 miler this morning...nothing much to talk about there!  Instead I wanted to share these hilarious senior quotes I found today!  I was helping one of my students with their senior quote and had found these.  Some were not quite ok for me to post but gave me a chuckle.  Google senior quotes when you get a chance and check them all out.  Here are some funny ones:

 My student finally landed on a good one.  After I explained to him who James Dean was he was good!

"Dream as if you'll never die.  Live as if you'll die today."

The Great, The Good, The Downright Ugly-Race Report

Em made me promise to give her this number as soon as I was done!!

The great.....

• The hubs and Em came to cheer me on!  Em was very sad when she found out the she couldn't run but loved that she got her very own medal (they were handing out old medals at number pick-up).  It was great to have them there!
• I met a reader!!!!  I was standing around waiting to start and a woman asked me if I wrote a blog.  Her name was Megan and she is a reader.  She is running a half in San Francisco in 2 weeks.  I tried my hardest to play it cool but on the inside I was beside myself!!  I began to think of the bloggy meetups we could have!!!  Megan seriously though shoot me an email sometime and we can meet-up to run....or coffee...or whatever!  Thanks so much for introducing yourself to me!!

The good......

• My new compression capris that were very comfortable
• How I felt for miles 1-7 keeping a 8:15ish pace
• The people cheering along the way and hilarious signs
• I hit goal A....even though I wanted to stop and just sit on the side of the road I finished (more to come in the ugly!)
• A 2:00:36 finish....not where I know I can be but happy just the same

The ugly...

• A 12 noon start.....nothing more to say there
• I was hungry at the start....never a good thing and I think it was what lead to my wheels falling off.  I'm still not right even this morning.  I was so confused what to eat and when that I ended up not eating close enough to the start.
• The weather....it was forcasted to be overcast and 65....it was what felt like blazing sun and almost 80*.  I dressed for 65....We were running into the sun for a good portion of the race.  Even though it wasn't super hot in comparison it wasn't good for me!!!
• The wheels fell off the bus at around mile 8...Each mile my pace kept slowing after 9 miles.  The first half+ of the race I was keeping around an 8:15 pace but then hunger (I had no fuel) and heat kicked in....no good
• Walking down stairs today....yeah going in and out of 3 schools and up an down stairs each and every day today going down is not pretty

I would be lying if I said that I was satisfied with the race but I am certainly not devastated like I used to be when I didn't hit a time goal.  I knew what I did wrong and what to do for next time.  I have already made changes to my training and am looking for another.....I know it's an illness!!!  At the end of the day, and this is what I told my hubby, sometimes your body has it's own plan and it can happen to anyone!!  Thank you again for all your support!!!

Saturday Shout-Outs

Good morning!!!  Normally I don't post on the weekend but you all were so incredibly supportive of me I just had to hand it right back to you with some shout outs!  I am always amazed by all the amazing people out there and all the incredible things you are doing.  Still you take time to encourage me....thank you!  On tap for today....finishing playlist, getting outfit together (bringing back the pink and black!), charging the Garmin, and relaxing (ie not stressing)!  In the meantime here is what some of you are doing this weekend.  I have included links so you can check out each other!!! 

Daniella.....running a half marathon on Sunday in Portland, ME
Jill.....running a 20 miler this weekend in prep for the NYC marathon
Clairejustine...running a half marathon at the end of October (she just finished running 200 miles in Sept!!!)
Kyria.....running a 10 miler this weekend in prep for her first half marathon
Christie.....running her first half marathon on October 30th
Jill.....running her last longish run before Chicago Marathon

If you have something big this weekend let me know.....now.......

Go out and rock this weekend!!!