run this amazing day

1. Lauren over at Failed Muffins went on vacation for a week, so I polished up a post outta the vault for her yesterday.  Go drop her some sweet sweet love! 2. Emily and I are going out this weekend to stomp on the face of the inside loops of the Reston course.  I'm thankful for training partners that also have hilly races coming up so I don't have to complain to myself all day.  Like one of my favorite crazy redheaded girls says, hills are for heroes !   3. I've got some thinking to do. I've got quite a few friends in IM training this year, and lately, instead of watching them work out and think, "that's insane, I could never do that," my thoughts have been turning to, "Maybe I could do that."  But it's a huge commitment (mmm, durrr).  It would mean that I'd spend 4+ months in a single training cycle (plus maintaining a solid base for 2-3 months before that), which is actually kind of a long time.  4 months, plus race and rec...

Dear Reston , I am coming. Be afraid.

The complete-rest manifesto is going quite well. The first step was three complete days off.  (Foodies, avert your eyes).  I ate nothing but cupcakes and cheesy beer bread muffins and homemade pizza and drank beer and didn't count grams of protein and turned down workout dates and it was everything I had ever dreamed it would be.  Until about halfway through the second day, when I started to crave vegetables.  And then on the third day, where I could not force another pink-frosted cupcake down my throat and drank muscle milk by choice and was itchy and irritable and bored (and rested!) at 4pm.  I managed to force myself to go out to dinner with friends and drink a beer sampler and eat (gasp!) meat, but I was ready to move again.  So when Lauren suggested a ride the next morning, I was thrilled to BE thrilled to say yes.  Our ride was both easy-paced and short, but my legs were pretty happy to move again.  And we spent the rest of the day sunn...

Let's see how it went... June Goals Don't try and PR on purpose.  Run for fun.   No PR's for me! Have lots of grill parties (who wants to come over?)  Lots, indeed, with more to come... Get sucked into 500 mile cycling challenge (sigh).  Check!  Total 200 made this one easy. Get my tight ass back in a yoga class.  So happy to say check!  I went to several of my favorite yoga classes this month! Stop being a baby and go back to the scary hill workout.  Does it count if I went, but called it because of thunder and lightening? Give tempeh one more chance.  But that's it, tempeh, you hear me?  Yeah, me and tempeh, we're never gonna be friends. Plus a bonus check - I finally made the spaghetti squash!! Yesterday I spent some time looking back through the month.  It was easy to see why I was feeling tired and overwhelmed - I was busy every weekend either running a race or riding or both.  There are times in my life where I love to ...