Miles Ran: 99± M - 1 M short of the Hundo Club, d@mn it.
Xtraining: 20± M - (Elliptical + spin)
Rest Days: 8 - More than anticipated thanks to the weather and my ass
Temper Tantrums Thrown About Weather: At least 8,
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| My husband thinks he's funny and says this every time I complain. |
Favorite Run: The awesome 18 miler on the Pere-Marquette Trail earlier this month
Favorite Post(s) Written: Finally being able to recap our Wedding and Reception
Paintings Completed: Zero. Instead I did an @ssload of wedding projects for my Rixy's impending wedding.
Current Reads: (Reading) Canada by Richard Ford: Spike's Valentines Day present to me was a "Surprise Book Club of the Month" membership with Brilliant Books; I filled out a questionnaire about my favorite and not-so-favorite authors/books and they send me a surprise paperback each month that they think I will like. Canada is my first; I just started it but already I'm intrigued.
(Listening to) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: My second classic of the year and I must admit, I totally love this book. I find myself cracking up my whole drive listening to the hi-jinks of d'Artagnan and the three musketeers.
(Finished) The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: I must admit I did not entirely love it. I grew frustrated with the lack of back-story on the main characters and struggled with the dialect.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed: Loved to hate it. Loved it for the mis-adventures, for how well the author ropes you in to her story, I was crying in the first chapter and laughing shortly after! I hated it for how utterly stupid the author was at times throughout, which is actually just another reason why I loved it.
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Choan: It had an intriguing enough plot about seemingly random people that are ultimately connected, but I had a hard time keeping the story straight for most of the book because it hopped around so much.
Long Past Stopping by Oran Canfield: A memoir about the absolutely bizarre life of the son of the famous "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books who grew up to have a serious heroin addiction. I couldn't put it down, but then the book just kinda, finished. I wish there had been a more thorough ending.
Broken by William Cope Meyers: Another addiction memoir, I was kinda on a roll this month. This man's life made me so unbelievably angry that at times I wanted to stop reading it because I couldn't fathom why someone with so much love and support could continually throw his life away for drugs.
Current Shame-Inducing Guilty Pleasure: Cheering for Boyd on Justified
Current Obsession: Besides complaining about the weather?
Current Song: Sweet Nothing by Calvin Harris & Florence Welch (of Florence + The Machine):
Current Wish-List: Weekly massages until I run the marathon! Ha!
Current Need: Sunshine! Above-freezing temps! No more snow and ice!!!
Current Triumph: Completing my first 20 miler in 3 years
Current Bane of my Existence: It's really a toss-up between the weather and my dentist.
Current Goal: To keep my ass running!
Current Indulgence: I've been eating way too many Whole Foods chocolate chip sugar-free cookies lately... must stop this bad habit!
Current Blessings: The simple joy of life, love, and friendship.
Current Excitement: March will be busy! I leave tomorrow for Florida for my Rixy's bachelorette party weekend and head back again in a few weeks for her wedding! Hooray! I'm also stoked to be going to New York for work later in the month and ending March by running the Egg Shell Shuffle half. But best of all?!?! Game of Thrones Season 3 starts!!!
How'd your February shape up?!?!
Running is what you make of it, make it an Adventure!™
(Listening to) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: My second classic of the year and I must admit, I totally love this book. I find myself cracking up my whole drive listening to the hi-jinks of d'Artagnan and the three musketeers.
(Finished) The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: I must admit I did not entirely love it. I grew frustrated with the lack of back-story on the main characters and struggled with the dialect.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed: Loved to hate it. Loved it for the mis-adventures, for how well the author ropes you in to her story, I was crying in the first chapter and laughing shortly after! I hated it for how utterly stupid the author was at times throughout, which is actually just another reason why I loved it.
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Choan: It had an intriguing enough plot about seemingly random people that are ultimately connected, but I had a hard time keeping the story straight for most of the book because it hopped around so much.
Long Past Stopping by Oran Canfield: A memoir about the absolutely bizarre life of the son of the famous "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books who grew up to have a serious heroin addiction. I couldn't put it down, but then the book just kinda, finished. I wish there had been a more thorough ending.
Broken by William Cope Meyers: Another addiction memoir, I was kinda on a roll this month. This man's life made me so unbelievably angry that at times I wanted to stop reading it because I couldn't fathom why someone with so much love and support could continually throw his life away for drugs.
Current Shame-Inducing Guilty Pleasure: Cheering for Boyd on Justified
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| via Do you watch the show? It is sooo well written. Spike and I die every week. |
Current Song: Sweet Nothing by Calvin Harris & Florence Welch (of Florence + The Machine):
Current Wish-List: Weekly massages until I run the marathon! Ha!
Current Need: Sunshine! Above-freezing temps! No more snow and ice!!!
Current Triumph: Completing my first 20 miler in 3 years
Current Bane of my Existence: It's really a toss-up between the weather and my dentist.
Current Goal: To keep my ass running!
Current Indulgence: I've been eating way too many Whole Foods chocolate chip sugar-free cookies lately... must stop this bad habit!
Current Blessings: The simple joy of life, love, and friendship.
Current Excitement: March will be busy! I leave tomorrow for Florida for my Rixy's bachelorette party weekend and head back again in a few weeks for her wedding! Hooray! I'm also stoked to be going to New York for work later in the month and ending March by running the Egg Shell Shuffle half. But best of all?!?! Game of Thrones Season 3 starts!!!
How'd your February shape up?!?!
Running is what you make of it, make it an Adventure!™
11 comments:
lol on the game of thrones winter is coming haha
and yea if I was in your shoes in the midwest, I would have thrown in the towel about a spring marathon a long time ago, and just tried to do a half. then save the marathon for the summer/fall. And even though running during the winter may suck, I hope you enjoy being basically back to normal health wise.
Scarlett Letter brings back memories - I read it in high school, used maybe 2 sentences of cliff notes for the intro paragraph only since it sounded so perfect, and the teacher gave me a 0 on the paper due to plagiarizing. A big mistake on my part, and not something that I've ever done again without citation =) Still remember a couple of the characters - Dimmesdale and Pearl for a few.
And that new Calvin Harris song is indeed awesome.
I love Sweet Nothing! And whoops...didn't finish my piece...did u?
COngrats on all of the months accomplishments. Especially the 20 miler, as fellow runner I understand the toll those take mentally and physically!
Have a great time in Florida, and enjoy the bachelorette party!
Best of luck for March! Its going to be a very busy month for me as well.
Oooohhhhh, that elusive mile!!! Hope you heal up better than you were before and maybe Spike can give you some extra massages for good luck :)
If it makes you feel better, you ran 33 times farther than I did. Cool idea for a book club. Interesting to see you reading Dan Choan. He's more or less a local writer. I tried one of his books, but couldn't get into it much. Cheers!
If it makes you feel better, i was 5 short of my 100 mile month too! aRGGGGG......Three years running and I always manage to screw up one month!
We are completely obsessed with Justified!! I still think season 2 was the best, but this season is not disappointing!
Congrats on the 20 miler!! We've talked about this before, but I totally get the re-breaking distances after a really long time. It feels good.
my massage lady offers a discount if you book weekly, maybe someone by you does too? and 1/2 an hour would at least be something! i've really been enjoying mine lately (for sanity and my glute) so i am an advocate lol.
i'm surprised you didn't go out and get that extra mile!
I like the book of the month club idea...that sounds awesome!
And yes. Could not possibly be more excited about Game of Thrones.
Ahh so excited about Game of Thrones!
What a cool post. The kind you can read more than once and find something you missed. I love Richard Ford. He's an artist of the sentence. I read the Bascombe trilogy, but have been on the fence about Canada. Curious what you think. And hellz yeah, winter is coming, or at least Game of Thrones on HBO on March 31t. I have 50% of Storm of Swords to finish by the end of march, which means 600 pages.
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