run this amazing day

1. Like everyone else in DC, I've been enjoying the unseasonably warm weather.  If I could find a part of the country where it was 55-75º and sunny/partly cloudy year-round, I would move there.  Ideas?  In the meantime, I'll be really happy to keep wearing shorts and a teeshirt in January and hope that if we do have a ridiculously hot summer because of the mild winter, it at least has the decency to wait until after June 24th to get really bad. 2. For a long time, I couldn't eat leftovers.  Once a hot dinner got cold, I couldn't stomach it again.  I'm not sure why, it had something to do with the smell.  There were a few things that I could deal with if I plugged my nose while reheating - pizza, chili - but in general, ugh.  One of my pet peeves is seeing food go to waste, but fortunately I live with the poet , who will eat just about anything as long as it's food.  However, as I'm getting deeper into training, I'm starting to get better about it...

I made goals for January? January Goals Keep wearing the Christmas tree swimsuit until it wears out.   Still wearing it, although it's starting to turn into a droopy transparent parachute. Don't strangle any fat people at the gym  (I know this should be, "be encouraging and patient with new exercisers," but, come on, have you met me?).   I managed to mostly avoid this mess, mostly because I went during off-hours. Eat spinach more often.  It worked for Popeye and appears to be one of the possibly-missings in my diet. This month brought a lot more greens into my diet! Clean out the iTunes library.  No one needs this much Genesis.   Cleaned out and moved to an external HD.  My computer is so fast now! Learn to cook eggplant in a way that does not involve pizza. Well, that's a big fail.  Do I get credit for cooking the cauliflower? Keep rotating shoes despite a love bordering on obsession for the new pink ones.   Shoes have been rotated ...

I got the call yesterday that my fabulous new crank had arrived, so I dropped everything and headed out to Bonzai.  Bike components are so beautiful.   Apparently replacing a crank isn't a 5-minute job, so I had plenty of time to kill. But pretty soon, I was instructed to   stop harassing the staff   go eat dinner and drink beer.  Which I did.  By the time I had giggled my way back to the shop, it was ready to go. Isn't it beautiful? These somehow jumped in the car and came home with me as well.  I've only been lusting after them for two months now.  Please ignore the permanent compression-sock-imprints. As an added bonus, the weather here in DC is ridiculous today, so I get to take my fabulous new crank out for a spin before the sun goes down.  How are you enjoying our mild winter that is certain to guarantee a horrendous summer?

I spent a lot of time back in the fall searching for the perfect pair of pink shoes.  As my gait was changing, so were my shoe choices.  The Adrenalines went in the trash forever, and at the MCM expo I tried on a pair of these: I wasn't quite ready to make the purchase.  Those darn shoes are expensive, and I really didn't want to invest in a $150 experiment.  Unrelated, I really don't like my hair that short. Through the fall, my shoe rotation was a pair of Asics 2160s that I couldn't wear on long runs because they chewed up my feet, a pair of Saucony Guides that I didn't really have a problem with except that they felt a bit clunky in the heel, and a pair of Brooks Ravennas.   But every time I went into a running shoe store, I was sneaking a peek at those Newtons.    When I ran the 10K at the beginning on December, I declared to the poet that if I PR'd, I was going to just buy them already.  When I missed my PR by 20-or-so seconds , I decide...