Yup running in the morning is awesome

Ran the waterfront for 3 miles with Christine Thursday morning, it was great! And we ended at Starbucks. So I went in a got a smoothie and a banana. It took a ton of self control not to get a chai latte. 

The rest of the day was work and more work then I had a cookout on the roof in honor of my friend Nikki who finished an Ironman this past weekend and is pretty much my hero. 

Morning Person?

Two days in a row?!?! Might I be a morning running person? I think the 3 miler tomorrow morning at 0600 will seal it. 


Tuesday was a 4 miler Fartlek, I ran down by the Navy Yard which was pretty cool, the way I wanted to go was closed off so I had to turn around and find a new way around. It was my fastest run yet so that was good. 

After work I went to the "Top of the Town" in Arlington for a WOD with my friend's Crossfit box, it was a Tabata workout with mountain climbers, hollow rocks, pushups, and squats. My "score" was 95, not the worst I'm sure. Then we had a shot of "slim-rita." Low carb margarita? Sure.

This morning was a 5 miler on the mall. The weather in the morning is AMAZING! Absolutely perfect for running. I'm not the biggest fan of getting up in the morning but I just keep reminding myself it will be worth it. 

Tonight I went down to Yards Park for some FREE YOGA! It was very good for the price and reminded me of how much I need to do yoga, far more than I have been that's for sure. 

Actually working makes 8 hours fly by

Work was BRUTAL today! I hate taskers. Hate them. More than black jelly beans. More than stubbing my toe. Hate. But it did make the day fly by. I had to make an effort to get up and move every hour because I was so engrossed (or panicking) in my work. Spreadsheets!

I could not wait to go to Crossfit today. It was a rest day from running... that worked out well. We started with a block run which is about 400m, then back squats, then the met con was 3 rounds of 200m sprints and max effort thrusters (I used 75#, whoa). The WOD only took about 7 minutes but it was killer. Actually sprinting on the sprints made it harder. 

Afterwards I walked back with Christine and Matt because the weather is beautiful today!

Not looking forward to work tomorrow, but I am looking forward to seeing the chiropractor again, working on my functional mobility... then doing a WOD in Rosslyn with my friend Erika!

I've got a 4 mile Fartlek in the morning so I really need to go to bed, but I want to eat some sweet potatoes first, I'm hungry. 

Ah weekends...

We'll start with today, so completely out of order. I got up to catch the train at 0630, I'm never doing that again, I think when I was planning the trip my thought was I would be out of Andrea's hair for the day because I knew she had homework to do, but I really could have used brunch. As it was I had a bagel at the train station with hummus and eggs on it, which was delicious, but would have been more fun with my friend. 

I got home and wasn't feeling stellar, I think I was massively dehydrated from yesterday so I just bummed around and drank water until I thought it was cool enough to venture out from my 7 mile run, which actually worked out pretty well because I got this great picture below and ran into my friend Sebastian! I knew he had moved into town and it was so crazy running into him on the National Mall. We ended up running about 2 miles together, including sprinting up the steps at the Lincoln Memorial, that was killer! All in all the run was pretty good and I'm glad I didn't wimp out. 

I did not however run while I was in New York, I figured there would be enough walking to get me through 3 miles, and I was totally right, we walked the Williamsburg bridge which is about a mile long in itself! 

That was of course after we ate at Schmorgasburg, I had some spring rolls which were amazing and a white peach ginger ale. I could have eaten everything there! 

After that we walked to a bar and had about a dozen margaritas (hence the severe dehydration) they had all kinds, strawberry, mango, coconut, cucumber, jalapeño, we (Andrea's boyfriend) even made one up, he mixed strawberry and jalapeño and it was really good. 

Of course the real reason I went up to the city, SWO friends!

Here's a fun poster I saw on our way to get cupcakes at Sugar Sweet Sunshine (they were probably the best I've ever had) and it made me smile. 

Not excited to start another week at work, but it's not like I have much of a choice. 

It's so hot!

Heat index in the hundreds, yup I should definitely run home from Crossfit, that's a great idea. 


The run was alright, really slow because my legs were pretty tired and I kept my heart rate at about 182 BPM for the whole run. It took me 39 minutes to run about 3.4 miles, not too shabby. 


The WOD was really hard! 500m row, 3 x (3 pull ups, 5 toes to bar, 7 burpee box jumps), 400m run, 3 x (3 pull ups, 5 toes to bar, 7 burpee box jumps), 500m row. I finished in 19:26, not the worst, but not the best. Burpees kill me. I need to get faster at them. 

This is what I looked like after two workouts!

I'm excited for my rest day tomorrow, it will consist of my first trip to the chiropractor and a train ride up to NYC to visit my old friend Andrea, I could not be more excited! Now I just have to get some laundry done. 

Running, running, crossfit

Woke up and went for a run yesterday before work, it felt GREAT! I went 5.6 miles, and once I got back to the apartment realized that I only needed to go 3, so I did three today on the way back from Crossfit, well sort of, it might have been power walking. The WOD today was 5-4-3-2-1 Power Snatches and Overhead Squats and 1-2-3-4-5 "Muscle ups" or for me pull-ups off a box doubled. I got done in 6:29 with 65#. 


I tried to keep my heart hate at 70% (~150 BPM)  it was really difficult and I ran SOOOOOOOO slow. Everyone was passing me. It was easy to keep running though and it's supposed to get easier quicker when you run like that. Here's hoping because I'd really like to finish the marathon and not be taken off the course halfway through. 

A very very very long weekend

After a completely uneventful Friday night my whirlwind weekend began. I woke up "early" (0830) on Saturday to meet Christine for a run. We did three miles, yay! Then we grabbed some coffee. After that I finally tried the Spring Mill Bakery on 8th Street, I got a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich, it was great, the bread was really filling. That turned out to be a great thing because I didn't eat again until about 2000!
I met up with an old college buddy for the Yankees/Nats game, it went to 14 freaking innings! But I had a great time... and a beer. The coolest part was seeing Chris again, I haven't seen him since college and we were pretty good friends, I remember when he met his now wife and he was so excited, now they are going to be parents!

After that it was over to Crystal City for a long overdue housewarming for one of my battle buddies. But I couldn't stay too long because one of my besties from San Diego was in town and we were going out for her boyfriend's birthday. It was on a party bus and it was a CRAZY time, we somehow ended up with like 4 bachelorette parties. It was great to see Diane and dance like we were 22 again. 

Sunday was far more chill, I headed up to Baltimore, had a Father's Day brunch with my cousin and his family and helped a two year old make brownies, it turned out much better than I anticipated. After that we went to Sailabration at the Inner Harbor which is part of the celebration of the War of 1812. 

 

The Blue Angels were there!!!

Today was a very standard Monday, couldn't quite get in the groove at work until the afternoon, and by then all the work I had been putting off in the morning had piled up and really needed to get done, so the run I planned didn't happen. I did think we were going to run at Crossfit so I was totally okay with it, but they pulled a change up at the last minute because of bad weather in the morning. It was supposed to be a 5K, but they changed it to a team workout on the rower. While one person rowed 250m another held a high plank, another held a kettle bell in the rack position, and the last did a wall sit (it was supposed to be a rest but a d-bag in my class opened his big mouth about the workout before it started). We rowed as far as we could in 25 minutes, my team ended up with 5600 meters, not too bad, other classes were getting in the 6000's but they had a rest, and we came in second in our class. 

I think I'm going to call it an early night and try to get up and do a run in the am before work. We'll see how that goes.