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So much Saturday news!

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I will be missing another soccer game tomorrow as we’re waking up and an ungodly hour tomorrow morning and driving up north for the Boyf to compete in a half ironman. Let’s hope our puppy will be on his best behavior and not frighten anyone. My running buddy described Alfie as “ferocious” — completely true.

Speaking of Soccer, I looked up the scoring results for the whole Women’s Conference and I’m tied for second place on being the top scorer! How sweet is that? I totally had to tell someone.

While I sit here and type away while my laundry is doing 4 loads down in the apartment’s basement and one left to be put in — I noticed that people really don’t know how to work the washers in our complex. I ended up getting a free load of laundry because there was a sticky note on one of the washers that said “doesn’t work”. I put my clothes in, and got a free wash. The other washer said it doesn’t rinse properly. I’ve had that happen to me before, but it was because I only put in Alfie’s bed cover and it was uneven and didn’t rinse correctly. Yay for ignoring the notes!

Yesterday was so wonderful. I had my mind set out that I was going for a run immediately after I got home from work. My heart was pounding and my stomach was turning. I never went on a run alone before — and my iPod’s battery was dead. I decided to just go for it anyway and conquer 4.41kms in 24:47!! This is the watch I bought off Ebay and blogged about earlier.

The watch says 25:32, because I walked for the first 45 seconds ;)

I talked about my 10 and 1’s before, and I did that yesterday. The first 1 minute walk was fine, and then I started to run again. 2 or 3 minutes in, is when I start to panic and my breathing goes to complete crap, and I can’t seem to “calm” my breathing down sometimes. So, I decided to walk again! I wasn’t really angry with myself this time, but I only needed another minute or so and I was off on my run again. Started slow, and finished fast. I ended up jogging fast (not sprinting, because I was done), and nearly collapsed (okay not really) when I reached the fence of the apartment building.

I felt SO good.

Even with my veins popping out of my head.

Time to refuel with water (x3)

Then I had to prepare supper for the both of us but have it ready for 9PM when the boyf got back from his endur-ride on his road bike. Superstar.

It was as good as it looked.

Lululemon was adding Loot to their sale section on their website the whole night last night. I ended up scoring some more Run: Zoom crops (the ones I’m wearing in the photo above) for 50% off! They’re still avail, but going quickly. I have decided I like the Zoom’s better than my Run: Empower crops for running, primarily because Zoom’s have a tiny pocket in the back for keys, and the Zoom’s aren’t as compressioney on my stomach.

Anyway, this entry is long enough – even though I have much more to babble on about, I’m sure that’s enough reading for one day! :)

Will be back tomorrow with a race re-cap of the Half Ironman (if I get around to it that night) and don’t forget to enter my DownEast Basics (clothing) giveaway. It ends on July 5!

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A regal Canada Day

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After a very long, 8 day break from running I almost contemplated skipping yesterday’s morning run with my running buddy and our new running friend too!! But I knew if I didn’t get my butt out of bed that day, it would be much tougher to get back into it after skipping even a few more days. We ended up running a not-so-fast paced (probably because of me) 4.5/5k on a trail while I was dying at the pace they were running at. I was reminding myself running is 90% mental and that I could push through it. Some days are just so efin’ hard to convince yourself otherwise, isn’t it?

After the sweaty run, I noticed the boyf was still asleep so I decided to take Alfie on a nice morning walk — I ended up walking a different route just going on the main road and instead of walking in a loop I decided to walk just further down this one street. Turning back to come home I tried to see if Alfie would be capable of running along side me as I say “Good boy, good heel” — and while he was decent 80% of the time, some of the times he ran under my feet and I may or may not have kicked him a few times accidentally. It was hard on my left arm keeping his leash out along side of me and repeating myself, “good heel, good boy”. Running along side of me also quietened him down from barking and being anti-social with people, which was good. We ran past Starbucks and of course people were outside … he definitely wanted to stop to bark so I had to say “c’munnnn c’mun pup, let’s go” in a peppy voice. That got him back into the groooooove. Once we got home I google mapped it and we ran for about 1.5kms. Way to go pup!

That definitely required a nice long warm shower. Two runs!!

Showered, then I vacuumed and dusted my already “immaculate mazda” (a nick name that my team mate gave my car) out, and the Boyf primed some of my stone chips on the hood of my car for painting. Exciting stuff.

The boyfriend then was deciding whether or not to go on a long road bike ride, or on a run. He decided on the later, and we went to the (boring) track, where he took Alfie occasionally on a loop or two.

It’s funny, because Alfie was completely fine with me on the run — but whenever he leaves my side (if the boyf walks him and I’m walking ahead for instance) he really doesn’t want to leave my side and wants to be near me. So the boyf was dragging him for half the loop and when he came around the other side, he couldn’t keep up with him (because the pup wanted to run to me).

See? Drag.

Then when Alfie was with me, he didn’t want to be! Figures. “Where’s Scott!!!??”

Mid-“ruff” (not full on bark)

So regal and definitely my new favorite photo of him.

Of course some times he co-operated when I said “Walk” and “treat” a few times. I think he hates the camera.

Wanna TREAT?

After the run we ate some Dairy Queen ice cream for supper but it was way too cold and I was shivering while eating it. Then immediately headed off to see the beautiful heart-pounding-booms of the fireworks. Happy 143rd Birthday CANADA.

Have a good Friday! Maybe I’ll post my Outfit of the Work Week later on today. Stay tuned!!

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Happy “Friday” to me!

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Not really Friday, because it’s Wednesday. Canada Day is tomorrow, but I still have to work on the real Friday. Such a confusing work week, but welcomed holiday. Much needed.

So my brutal burn has turned into an unexpected tan. I’m multi-tasking here and talking to my Mom on the phone, cooking supper and modeling my new tan for you all. Fancy fancy. I haven’t been working out regularly since my 5k race on Father’s Day except for the soccer games I play in. So I decided to kick it up and go back to the gym and do a Boot Camp class (for the first time in a few months) — sure I got my ass whooped but the class somewhat flew by and I feel great this morning. Not sluggish at all!

Funny how when you skip the gym or a workout for … oh I don’t know, two months and just keep running that you feel worn out. Exercise = energy just like Kelly talked about on her blog yesterday!

Then of course I fueled up with some asparagus wrapped in chicken with some roasted red pepper something or other Kraft salad dressing drizzle on top.

Chomp down! Can’t wait for supper tonight. Mmmm my belly loves food.

Don’t forget to enter my DownEast Basics (clothing) giveaway — you have until July 5.

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