Saturday JM came over bright and early and joined me for my last long run before San Diego. It was 8 miles of fun chatter. (This run was so much better than my last run before Arizona! I was sick and injured...it was all I could do to muster 6 measly miles.) I took her around the little municipal airport, past the dog park and through the ponds near my house. I realized how nice it is to have good places to run close by. In the ponds, I often see these animals, we didn’t see either on Saturday. I have no idea what they are but they are both weird looking.
Our overall pace 11:08, bit faster than goal pace. The last mile we busted out at 10:05 which dropped our average from 11:18 to 11:08. I won’t be doing any 10:05’s come marathon day. Goal is to keep is slow and steady. I’m hoping Maddy and I can pull off PR’s together! We have a plan and I’m going to stick with her as long as I possibly can!
The rest of Saturday I spent doing chores and walking the dog (Saturday was her 1 yr birthday!—picture montage to follow sometime this week, hopefully, b/c who doesn’t love cute puppy pics? I'll leave one below, this is right after we got her last summer.). I wanted to get all the chores out of the way so I could enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Sunday bright and early again, we headed to the coast with some friends for a hike. We forgot the camera so we don’t have any pictures but it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! The hike was pretty flat but it was a good 5 + miles which was perfect. We took Zoey with us too, she had a great time.
Monday I slept in and did errands for the first half of the day. Then I went downtown with JM to Rose Festival carnival thing. Hanging out with JM was a blast, she’s such a fun person. We decided in 10 years the carnival would be fun if we have kids. We also took an adventure walk to the east side in search of marathon socks for me. My favorite pair of socks sprung a hole! Sadly, our adventure went unrewarded as the running store didn’t have my socks. I found something similar at another running store in town and plan to try them out this week.
This week is going to be a lovely 3-day work week for me as Mr. Pi and I leave for SD on Friday! I’m excited and nervous! Mostly though, I’m looking forward to meeting all the bloggers I talk to on a daily basis but have never met. (The internet rocks!)
Tonight my goal is to: a) start packing, b) run my 3 miles and c) re-paint my toe nails. I have my packing list all ready to go. I know some of you go crazy during taper time but I gotta say only running for 1:29 minutes on the weekend, instead of 4 hours, and having a 3 mile run on the schedule today is fantastic! My toes are currently coral I’m thinking they need to be HOT pink to match my marathon outfit. Speaking of, here it is!
(I need to be as bright as possible so all of you fast peeps waiting at the finish line can see me coming!)
San Diego here I come!
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LOVE the top! And happy Birthday to the pup, can't wait to see more pictures. :) See you this weekend!
pretty in pink! love it.
Happy almost birthday to Zoey!
Oooh, taper week! I love your plan to paint your toenails! You'll be so purty on marathon day!
Cute race day outfit! Sounds like a great weekend!
yay great job on the confidence boosting last run!! friday will be here before we know it!! see you SOON!!! :)
From one pink racer to another- I LOVE the marathon outfit! Good luck!
I'm really jealous and bummed I won't be with y'all to run and celebrate in SD.
You're gonna do great - just pace yourself smartly and enjoy yourself out there!
Great outfit! You inspired me to buy that skirt a while back but you must have thinner thighs than me becasue no amount of body glide keeps them happy with those little spankies underneath.
Your going to do great. I am glad you are excited and not too freaked out or nervous. You always have the right attitude. Can't wait to hear all about it.
The outfit is too cute!
Happy Birthday, Zoey!!
Sounds like you're going to ROCK SD!!!!! So excited to hear all about it and SO jealous all you people get to run together.
The outfit rocks. Has "Speedy PR Demon" written all over it!!
I like the outfit! I am so jealous all you west coast bloggers are going to meet up! I can't wait to read all the reports and of course see all the pictures!
Yes, yes. You NEED to have hot pink toenails for sure!
V. cute outfit.
yay san diego! i'm super excited for you!! i love your running skirt--is it camo? adorable.
Nice marathon outfit! And I think your toes should match your outfit!! Wow will everyone be in san diego this weekend???
What a fun holiday weekend. We went down to the carnival on Sunday, it was fun. But a little expensive/overwhelming.. I can only handle it for a short period of time! Glad you guys had fun. Great job on the run too! I am so excited for you to run SD. You're going to do great!! :)
whooohooooo 2 more days!!!! nice job on your last long run! can't wait for SD!!! See you this weekend! hehe
LOL that bird IS weird looking!
Love the oufit. You'll be looking good when you cross that finish line ;-)
woot! I am so behind on my viewing/commenting! You are going to rock the socks off this marathon. I have such a good feeling!
Can't wait to get back to our regularly scheduled runs!
Cute running outfit! Good luck to both you and Justin at the Marathon! I'll be thinking of you as I sit and eat amd watch t.v :)>. No just teasing..I'm actually jealous of the great shape your both in and all the getting out and exercise your getting! Hope it's a great race. The coast sounded fun! That one animal looked like some kind of funny duck and the other one I would bet is a rock chuck....there's another name for it too but can't think of it.. :).
The outfit is fantastic. Good luck girlie. I'll be routing for ya!!!
Hey! I found your blog through Penny's. I'm not running the RnR this year (injuries, etc, blah, blah, blah), but I'll be on the course cheering some friends on. We'll cheer for you too! Everyone needs a cheer leading group!
Congrats on training enough to make it this far. It's a great run. Have a great time!
Good luck this weekend in San Diego. Pink is a great color, especially given about a third of field will be wearing purple for Team in Training. (I saw your comment on Penny's blog, just in case you're wondering....)
See you in San Diego! Gonna be a blast!
Good luck this weekend!!
well??? How did you do???? I wanted to track you but I didn't know your bib number or your last name! I know horrible blogging friend!!
And I wish I had been there to cheer everyone on...but yet again horrible blogging friend-I slept in until 7am instead! Yes I thought about myself!
I hope you had a great time!!!
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