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November 25, 2007
Thanksgiving...Atlanta...wedding!...all that jazz
Thankgiving dinner at Nicole & Jeremy's - awesome. :) So much fun. We played Rock Band, drank lots of wine, had lots of food (holy crap awesome honey baked ham), met lots of people...and then off to the airport I went for red-eye to Atlanta.
Got to Atlanta at 6:00 in the morning. My awesome brother picked me up and we went to CHICK-FIL-A. :) Did a little bit of Black Friday shopping. But really, I didn't feel like dealing with the crowds. So...we went home and I went to sleep. For like.......the rest of the day. Dude, I love lazy days. I did manage to wake up to you know, eat dinner, let Scott into my brother's house, and get Tzu a wedding gift. But overall. Sleep is lovely.
Saturday I met up with Grace for breakfast. Apparently I am retarded and got J. Alexander's and J. Christopher's mixed up (Why the **** are there two restaurants that both start with J. anyway?!) Met up with Kimmie for lunch (like 30 minutes after lunch...). Discovered that I didn't actually know where the wedding was (it's not in Norcross? SHIT. It's in downtown Atlanta.....) Went to wedding. Visited Alice & Pei's awesome condo. Ate lots of food and Matt & Tzu's reception (Tzu was SSSOOO pretty). Went to Kimmie & Van's lovely home. And went home. Seeing all those beautiful homes made me JEALOUS. Dude. Sometimes I hate living in California. :\
And then...today got up at six in the morning to catch my flight home. And now I'm home.
Still like Atlanta. Don't have any intentions of moving back. :)
Posted by szujin at 03:20 PM | Comments (1)
November 05, 2007
HECK YEAH
Ran the US Half yesterday. I MADE SUB TWO HOURS!!!! By like a grand total of an 8th of a second. But WHATEVER. I made it, and that's the important part. :P
At first, my recorded finish was at 2 hrs 27 seconds, which made me extraordinarily sad, but then it said my CHIP time was under two (since I crossed the start line after the official beginning). So...I'm going to use that. I mean, how can time I didn't use be counted against me? :)
For a moment, I thought I was going to have to run ANOTHER half to make it under two. But I don't...thank goodness.
And Carri is a BIG FAT LIAR for saying there were no hills on the course. There were. Quite a few. And that sucked. But running across Golden Gate Bridge was beautiful. And the weather was beautiful. And everyone in the US Half is SSOO much more athletic. Inspires us to run faster and not slack off. There wasn't really any weaving to get around walkers or anything. Actually, I would say I was mostly getting passed for the first mile or so (sigh).
Things I have learned from this half marathon:
1. Mile markers are VERY helpful. Miles 10-13 were NOT marked (or if they were, they were hella not visible b/c everyone around me was also complaining). I had no idea how to gage how much I had left (well, very well at least).
2. Cytomax is DISGUSTING.
3. Taking off your shoes right away after the run is stupid (at least for me) idea. Equals a lot of cramping. Probably b/c I was a little dehydrated.
4. Sports bra is NOT a good place to hold Luna Sport Moons. EVEN if they are in a bag. Friend suggested it, I tried it. Need I say more?
5. I actually kind of like a little bit of hills. Miles 10-13 were completely flat and I was getting pretty bored. At least hills means I gotta try hard, and then I am rewarded with DOWNHILL. :)
Things I learned post-race:
1. Dude. Sleep is awesome.
2. Chubby Hubby is awesome.
Done with half marathon (or any races) for a while. Snowboarding season is up next. If it's a bad season, guess I'll be training for something else (marathon?). If not....................YAY SNOWBOARDING!
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