I must start this blog by saying YAY to the GATORS!!!!! Yeap my team won the BCS National Chompionship… sure there will always be controversy about who is #1 in college football, but you know what? I don’t give a shit! The Gators won and end of the story… You don’t like it? Well too bad for you… go and cry on someone else shoulder =)
Now with the split soup story…
Today I felt like having a delicious lunch at my company’s cafeteria… I just wanted a little salad and a cup of soup as my tummy has been acting up. My soup options: looking like vomit chicken and rice… and looking like really bad vomit pea split soup…
Well my girlfriend likes split soup and I really haven’t had much of it so I gave it a chance (like the song says “All we can sayyyyy is give peas a chance” LOL)… I thought split soup had ham but this one had little pieces of hot dog LOL… I tried as much as possible to skip those little pieces of yiacky stuff but ended up with one… of course, I didn’t eat it…
Overall, the soup was ok… better than it looked… I am not sure why a cafeteria would make that kind of soup, really… it looks so bad that takes away any desire for people to buy it… the pot was almost full and I even got weird looks by other employees when they saw me buying it…
So that’s my story today… wow…
More to come… I’m going for happy hour with my friends with a wonderful temperature of 33 degrees… HHmmmm a little cold for this Southern gal!
Till then keep on staying warm =)
Yup... a New Year... 2009... It will be a good one because I will make sure of it.
Not sure why but I am full of optimism and in a good mood, which it is something rare for me being such a "Eeyore"ish person (for most of the time, not all the time though).
Rolling back, I had a great time this Xmas with my gf and her craziness with her family and a marvelous New Year’s Eve celebration with my beloved friends and gf; Sandrine, thanks for the fondue it was excellent =)
Sooooo… I am ready to kick this year in a good way.
Running? Working out? I am doing it... my legs/feet have been hurting a little for running "a lot" (I mean I haven't been running a lot but running every time I go to the gym) but I think it was related to my running shoes (Mizuno), so I got the Nike Air Pegasus 25+. Long time ago when I used to actually be part of my country's track and field team I used to wear Air Pegasus for training and they were great. Moreover, the 25+ lets you use the Nike Sportband to keep track of your running performance which it is great when you are training (remember… I have a half marathon to run)… oh and Saturday I received the Sportband, yay! So I am excited to use it today.
Ok back to do what I need to do… Till then keep on running… and celebrating…
The temperature keeps on getting colder and colder… it rains… it sort of snows… or we have hail falling from the sky… none of this conditions make me a happy camper. Sure, I must say that when I used to live in FL my dream was to get away from the doors of Hades into a little colder place. Then, to my own fortune, I ended up in Asheville, NC. Great weather… not too cool… not too hot… sometimes we had a little snow but wasn’t a big deal; you could pretty much bike/run all year run.
Well, now I am here in Harrisburg, PA and things are just wack! The summer/spring was super hot (almost like FL), the fall was like Asheville, and now the winter is like well nothing I’ve experienced before. I’ve been with the flu couple times = 3 weeks or so miserable (which have sidetracked me from training) and this weekend I got a cold (which was a shame because I went to DC in a mini-vacation just to get sick!). I guess I will eventually get used to the weather… the bad part is that I am sure when I get used to I'll be moved somewhere else (yeah there I go with my pessimist thought).
Anyway, this weather is making me spend more time bundled with a warm blanket and a cute kitty (Faust)…
Ok, more to come some other time, hopefully not another lame blog… I just need to stay positive… the weather shouldn’t be such a big factor to make me go HMmmm, HMmmm… the flu, cold, etc will go away and I just need to look up in a bright way just like Faust does =)
Went to the gym last night… it was ok… I was into 20 min of running when nature called! Close call LOL…
I am feeling ok, a little sore, and tired at times… I was thinking about going out to run after work but it gets so dark so soon that I prefer to take tonight as a break/recovering day and go tomorrow and then to the gym… The weather has been so nice (and hot yeah hot! Here I come again “this CPA weird weather!) that I should go out to run during the weekends so I get used to being outdoors instead of always indoor at the gym…
I am also thinking (and notice I wrote “thinking”!!!) to start waking up a little bit early in the mornings so I can go and run at least 30 min and then get ready and go to work… then after work go to the gym and run another 20-30 min and do weights… Mmmm I will try to do so this up coming week. The following one will be hard as I will giving/conducting training… yeah super tolerance/patience me will be doing that… we shall see what happens…
November 6 2008
- 20 min running almost 2 miles (had to stop thanks to nature’s call LOL)
- 40 min intense biceps/triceps workout and a little bit of abs
November 7 2008
- Break/recovery
Sore, sore, sore from Monday… it is amazing how bad your body can hurt after getting back to the gym…
Nov 4 2008:
- Elections day: first time in my life I was able to vote! Yay! But totally disappointed with the outcome…
- Run: 20 min almost 2 miles
- Workout: shoulders 45 min
Nov 5 2008:
- Off although I have lots of laundry to do and that is a workout itself. 60 steps! Up and down with a basket full of clothes. Three trips down and three up: 60 steps x 6 = 360 steps!!! With couple lbs of clothes! Yeah I end up with my breathless… but heck a good way to keep my gluteus in shape LOL
So here I am, back to do some major blogging =)
I got side tracked for a while… didn’t do much (or I can say almost none) mtn biking this year. I didn’t get in a real work-out routing. And I just stop training…
Now is the time to get back… enough excuses… I want to get back to the things I enjoy, mtn biking will have to wait until the winter passes by, but working out and running are back. Yesterday, Monday Nov 3 2008 I started a new chapter in my life where I will keep on training to my goal of running my first half marathon on May 3 (Frederick Half Marathon) followed by the Baltimore one (October 2009) so I can complete the “Double Dare,” run some 5K’s every month (if they are around here), and mtn bike.
I will blog my progress at training and any competitions I might be part of…
November 04 2008:
- Run: 15 min 1 ½ mile. Yes this is pitiful but I just came out from a week with a horrible flu…
- Workout: 45 min chest and back. Good pain…
