Spring Cleaning

I move back to the E-U-G this weekend.  Moving is the perfect time to clear out the clutter.  I went through ALL my stuff and well, I now have a carload of clothes, office stuff, and random crap to take to Goodwill.  Didn't I just do this a month ago?  I guess I'm just really good at hiding things in every nook and cranny.

Last night I put my BarBri (bar exam prep class) and training schedules into my Google calander.  According to the BarBri website we're expected to spend 7-8 hours outside of class each day to study on our own.  On most days, class is just 3 hours long.  On some days it's 8.  Good grief. That ontop of my training... well it's not looking pretty folks

This isn't funny.  I'm having some serious worries about my life this summer.  I will have a schedule with little variation from this for a little over 2 months.  Gross.

Why is it 43 and raining outside?  Spring?  Are you there? 

Anyways, Are you participating in the Eugene Marathon this weekend?  Let me know, we should meetup :)

King Estate 5K

I traveled down to Eugene with run a 5K with my friend AJ.  I was scheduled for my long run today, but I'm glad we only did a 5K since my shins and ankle have been bothering me.  Got up early,cleaned house, and dyed Easter eggs.  Drove down south and went to the race.  The weather was perfect.  65 and sunny.  The race started out fine.  Crowded at the start but little did I know I had 2 giant hills to run up on gravel roads.  Because of the gravel, I twisted my ankle twice.  That SUCKED.  The run was HARD.  I hate hills and well, there was quite the elevation gain.  I finished with a major case of chaffing.  I can't walk now.  great.  I love that my thighs rub...not.  I finished with a time of 27:17:18 and a distance of 3.26 ( I started in the middle of the pack)  There was no chip timing. I've never struggled to run so much for 27 minutes!  My triathlon 5Ks are faster then that.  I ran a 24min 5K at Beaver Freezer.  oye.  Anyways, We got a glass of wine at the end and went home.  The End.


1/19 age group; 20th woman; 66/379 overall.  I've never gotten 1st in my age group so that was cool, despite the slow time.




Last week I was able to do my 50mi bike ride.  It was hard.  I got 2 flats.  I survived.  Rev3 will be rough!  I have another 50 scheduled for tomorrow but I have a lot of stuff to get done.  *sigh*

Rainy Day

I'm so sick and tired of the weather.  I haven't seen sunshine in forever and at this point I'm happy with overcast gray skies as long as it's not raining.  It'd also be nice to get above 55 for once.  I had my long run planned for today.  The forecast was for clear skies.   They lied.  It was a constant stream of rain the whole freaking day. It was also just below 50 degrees.  Finally by 4:30 I decided to head out and go for my run.  I was dreading every, single moment of it. 

Not thrilled to be heading outside.

TH has been off running a mini version of the Hood to Coast relay down south.  It's from Roseburg to Coos Bay and is about 67 miles.  Instead of 12 runners, there's only 5 per team.   I got a text an hour ago stating that TH's team won the entire race.   Of course they did.  TH was the slowest one on the team and he's fast!  

I know I live in Oregon and it rains here but if this keeps up, I'm moving to the desert.  

A Very Portlandia Weekend

I don't think I could have had a more "Portlandia" weekend if I tried.  Friday I biked out from where I live all the way out to Oregon Health Sciences University which is on top of a giant hill.  It was suppose to be a 18 mileish ride, but I got a bit turned around on some of the roads and I made the trip just over 20 miles.  It also took me 2 hours.  WOW.  After getting to my destination and eating some BBQed salmon, TH, our friends, and I went out to the Blazer/LA Lakers game and were happy to see that the Blazers won.  While we were waiting for out bus back home, SoyJoy was handing out free bars so naturally, we grabbed as many as we could. Saturday morning, I met up with my friend ZG for a run in the Pearl (NW Portland) and along the waterfront.  We stopped by the farmer's market and after sampling a ton of goat cheese, I headed back home.  I later returned back to Portland because TH and his friend JD had tickets to a high school basketball tournament.  MD and I went for a 3.2 mile run around the hills there.  I was a lil tired from the morning run, but the 3 miles still felt good.  Sunday, TH, his mom, and brother and all of out dogs went to the Jules Fun Run down in Salem.  I think we can agree that we had the most unbehaved dogs there, but probably the cutest.  The run was just a quick 2 miles around a park.  I had Momma Bear's dog (aka my half sister).  She decided that she was done running after mile marker 1.  I got the pleasure of carrying her the remaining mile.  I got a wonderful forearm workout and we still finished the 2 miles under 23 minutes. 

After the run :)

I had a 50 mile bike ride scheduled for Sunday.  I just didn't have the motivation, energy, or time to do it.  the weather was threatening to rain and it was windy. 

This has me worried that I won't be prepared for Rev3 come July.  I can blame the weather all I want, but I really just need to get things together and go outside!

CONTACTS

Yup.  This girl got fitted for contacts today.  The doc told me I was a pro at putting them in and taking them out.  Maybe I should rethink this triathlon thing and join the world of professional contact lens putter inners and outters. 

I'm not completely blind or anything without my glasses, but it will be nice to bike from now on and be able to see.  Running as well. 

Having a bad day?  Watch The Beagle finish off some Greek yogurt:

 Taking the tub to his bed

 Diving in

 Getting every...last..

 ...drop.

Target running skirt that I talked about earlier. 

Oh Noes!

Rev3 Portland Bike: Just look at the elevation.  No more Miss LaaDeeDa biking for this girl.

Monday Mondays

I actually had a somewhat productive day today.  Woke up, went to the pool.  Swam a decent workout even with my sore shoulders and neck from biking yesterday.  Got home and didn't eat too much junk and hydrated a bunch.  Later in the afternoon I went for a run in the wind and rain.   My shin didn't really hurt but my legs were tired.  I can't believe how out of shape I've really been.  I finished my large patent litigation paper more or less but I'm scared to turn it in as a draft to my professor.  I hate being judged and I know he's going to mark it up like crazy or come up with crazy ideas related topics for me to add to my paper.  I just have a lot of anxiety about my legal writing ability and I hate being graded on it. 



Workouts:

AM: Swim: WU-150each S/K/P/S;  Main set: ladder: 275, 250, 225, 200, 175, 150, 125, 100, 75, 50.  I actually didn't do the ladder just like that because I think it's awkward don't swimming in even 50s.  I did my "ladder" as follows:  300, 250, 200, 200, 200, 150, 100, 100, 100;   CD: 200 easy  Total: 2400yds

PM: Run :  5.01 miles at 46.13 for a 9:14min/mi average.  My speed has clearly gone down the drain.


PS:  so far the only commenter on my prior post was Big Clyde from The Clydesdale Project.  Basically, at this point... he's the only winner, winner, chicken dinner.  Make it happen people.