i decided to unretire today b/c i finally a) felt good and b) was motivated enough to run. plus it was perfect fall running weather, as evidenced by the scores of other people out and about. so i ran about a 35er out river road, around the art museum, some stairs, and back. nice stretch of the legs, although i doubt i'm going to be able to be consistent what with it about to get dark super early and the coldness. oh well, guess it's bike season...

i survived

so i said to brian on the phone wednesday night that i didn't want to go to work the next day b/c i thought i might die i was so bored. so, i decided to be literal and dropped my blood pressure really low and got ambulanced to the hospital. first thing he says to me when i tell him where i was and what happened? "when you said you might die if you go into work tomorrow, you really almost meant it!" and now i'm utterly mortified to go back on monday, but i'll only have like 2.5 wks left and then they can tell all the stories they want about the med student who had a vasovagal from hearing about earwax. that wasn't really why it all happened, just coincidental, i swear. but it is a funny story.
and thanks to brian for twice being a hero - picking me up at the hospital AND killing the most enormous cockroach ever for cara and i. ugh, i shutter reliving that moment. gross!

wednesday

so another student at lunch turned to me and said, you must exercise a lot, huh? and since i answered yes, that was motivation enough to go out for a run that night. 25 minutes around penn mostly, did some hills, got passed by a team of smelly (really) boys which was narsty. but glad to get a good workout in.

EAGLES!

45 minute run - out to the first bridge and a bit of center city. not much though, still feeling pretty slow, but just wanted to be sure to stretch the legs a bit.
one of my goals, which i haven't listed b/c i'm not sure about the marathon anymore (and in that case, the goals are probably moo), is to get back to weekend runs of over an hour. shouldn't be a tough one to catch!

did it!!!!!!!! woot!

instead of going for a good long run in this perfect running weather - i insanely cleaned, switched to my winter clothes, and biked for 20 min. all in all, that's a good workout i think. well, it's not horrible...

just do it already, dammit

pulled out a 35-er today. the normal art museum loop + one set of museum stairs. not too bad considering it was on a stomach full of doritoes and grapes. weird, i know. anyway, everyone was out and i felt like i was back in high school - it was awesome!

tonight

pushups. just pushups.

don't hate the playa

just not good at this game. or i don't know if i am, and that's just as bad.
planning on running tomorrow in the am assuming i don't have to work too early. weather was sooooo friggin gorgeous tonight but i desperately needed to get some errands done, and it gets dark so early now! at least tomorrow i'm done at 2. plenty of time to catch up on everything i've been not doing...

did a 35-er, first half at a decent clip, second a bit slower, but still pretty good. went out to the first boathouse. on the way decided on my new running goals, which i'll list shortly...it's gonna be a good year, i can feel it.

game on.

signing in for tuesday...
ran for about 35 around the penn's landing area with katie. ran by drew. so i guess overall it was quite a jefferson day, which is rare, believe it or not. not too fast really, but just worked the achy muscles. planned to run today, but instead fixed my computer. will run tomorrow after work definitely before leaving for a fun out of town weekend :)
ps thanks to gabe for all his help/advice/mexican food. much much much appreciated :)

15 minutes out, 15 minutes back. been almost a month since i've ran and i can feel it...but i'm a trooper, so i'm going out again today with katie. hopefully the blog will also be updated, seeing as how i finally got around to buying myself a replacement computer. of course i can't get the internet to work, so i'm relying on gabe to be even more generous and help me out once again. get all the christiana references? i'm a lucky girl to have started there!!