baby giraffe

how i felt on monday monday was another one of those emo runs. i slept through my alarm (again) and had to run after work. it's already quite warm and humid in south carolina. (see kevin, i have a small window to rub in the warm weather. i had to take advantage of it while i could) every step felt...

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boston and other things

[brief summary: a wedding, boston, old grapes, horses] it's been a very busy two weeks with a good bit of traveling up and down the east coast. i logged a whopping 10.6 miles one week and 22.75 the next. superb way to prep for a marathon (in less than one month, ugh i am so disgusted with myself). i...

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wet dog

don't mind my morning eye bags mile 1 - drizzle mile 2 - drizzle mile 3 - drizzle mile 4 - heavy rain mile 5 - heavy rain; cars driving purposely through puddles mile 6 - heavy rain; cars continue to shoot water mile 7 - rain; can feel water sloshing around in shoes mile 8 - heavy rain; purposely...

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divorce

or, what josh will want when he sees this post. exhibit a - november 2010: josh then replaced the glass with a new non-shardy piece. exhibit b - last week: i wanted to hold out for the iphone 5 but of course this would be the summer apple is slow. josh will probably make me get whatever phone they give...

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psa: matty's video contest

the release of "relay with ragnar" coincided with matty's dance/sing along contest, so of course i was a shoo-in for nomination. but i'm not here to ask you to vote for me. no, today i am going to exercise what i have learned from 'biggest loser' and give you an emotional speech, a few tears, and tell you to vote for jill of runwithjill fame. okay maybe i'll skip the speech, just do the right...

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my 5k acceptance speech

[applause] thank you! oh! thank you! i can hardly breathe! i feel so lucky! and this towel - it's so soft and plush. [pause for more applause] oh, thank you again! i just want everyone to read in the tabloids that even in my wildest hallucinations, i never would have imagined that this could ever...

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relay with ragnar

once again, i'll start with my disclaimer that i still cannot sing. "raise your 'ade" was well received (or you are all great at lying), so i figure why not do another. i actually made the lyrics up two months ago, but i was slack just couldn't get studio time until recently. morgan, if you remember the 1900 times i asked if it's pronounced rag-nar, or rag-ner, now you know why. marie, i'm sorry...

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5k tune up

in brief: my legs are even less in tune than my vocal chords. (world premiere music video drops tomorrow. get hyped.) the planned workout: 4x200 (:30 rest), 3x1000 (1:00 rest), 4x200 (:30 rest) what i actually loaded into garmin: 4x400 (:30 rest), 3x1000 (1:00 rest), 4x400 (:30 rest). go me. 200...

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three little speckled frogs

time for some long-lost daily run action. a few days late, but i thought i should actually talk about running for a change. saturday - i was out of town in a ghetto area also known as gamecock country. shudder. i managed to make it out alive and without anyone keying my car. (just kidding carolina...

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three things: because who wants to wait until thursday?

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march 2011

march 2011 total mileage: 166.53 time spent running: 24hrs 11min days off: 6 avg temp: 56.83 trip of the month: rainy weekend in the georgia mountains. basically march 20th rolled around and i realized oh crap i didn't go anywhere yet. on the scale - all month long i barely see any changes on the scale...

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when nature calls

when you gotta go, do you gotta go? i've always thought it weird when people are in the bathroom forever. i don't see how one can be in the bathroom long enough to actually read anything longer than the listerine label. is the toilet a comfortable reading chair? i just don't understand. i am so...

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