I know this blog has been a bit running-obsessed recently, but what can I say. I'm training for a half-marathon, what else should I be focused on?? Yes, you guessed it, nothing.
So, in honor of my newest obsession, I'm doing a bit of a pro/con of running.
Without further ado, here's my list.
PROS:
•It's a killer workout. I ran 4 miles this morning and burned around 400 calories! Talk about killer
•When done in the morning, it really gets my metabolism going {hello extra snacks!}. I love being able to sneak in a few extras when I know I've done my workout.
•The feeling of accomplishing a long run at a great pace is like nothing else! I feel so proud of myself when I can check off my daily training.
CONS:
•It's a killer workout. While running x amount of miles sounds easy, it's infinitely harder than anyone thinks. On Sunday I was doing my 5 mile long-run and after running for what I felt like was a significant amount of time, I checked my Garmin. I'd only run 2.75 miles. I thought for sure I'd run 3.5 miles. That was a bit of a setback. But, perseverance won out, and I finished my 5 miles.
•My feet are not for faint of heart. Yeah, running's great and all, but I couldn't consciously wear open-toed shoes. I'd love to get a pedicure, but honestly, who wants to deal with the running aftermath that are my feet?
•The cold weather. Ok, so that's not really a con of running. But, getting out there and running my allotted distance is tough enough, but throw in morning temperatures in the 20s, with even colder wind chills and getting out of bed to run in that? Tough.
All in all, I think the pros definitley outweight the cons and maybe that's why I'm crazy and have decided to run two halves! I'm committed and plan on doing my 6-mile long run on Sunday.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Bedlam win!
The OU Men's basketball team is {how do I say this nicely?} even worse than our football team.
There were high expectations. About as high as they can be, even after losing the Player of the Year in Blake Griffin, last year. {And, wow, we really miss him...}
We've lost to some not-so-stellar opponents. One game in particular, before Christmas in OKC, we lost to UTEP. Yes, the University of Texas at El Paso. {Which, coincidentally, is where the Sooners won their first bowl game in four years.}
Anyway, we played OSU last night. The mood was pretty grim. Word was that our "leader" Willie Warren was suspended for some unknown violation of team rules. Great. Plus the fact that our coach had kicked the team out of the locker room and prohibited them from wearing any kind of gear with OKLAHOMA on it. Nice. We've got a real nice team, Clark.
Even though the team couldn't hit a free throw to save their life and the refs couldn't see an over-the-back foul {usually on you, 33.} to save their life, we pulled out a win! Granted we had to go to overtime, but wow! No one thought we could win the game! Way to go us.
Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of something good for the team. But, I'm not holding my breath.
There were high expectations. About as high as they can be, even after losing the Player of the Year in Blake Griffin, last year. {And, wow, we really miss him...}
We've lost to some not-so-stellar opponents. One game in particular, before Christmas in OKC, we lost to UTEP. Yes, the University of Texas at El Paso. {Which, coincidentally, is where the Sooners won their first bowl game in four years.}
Anyway, we played OSU last night. The mood was pretty grim. Word was that our "leader" Willie Warren was suspended for some unknown violation of team rules. Great. Plus the fact that our coach had kicked the team out of the locker room and prohibited them from wearing any kind of gear with OKLAHOMA on it. Nice. We've got a real nice team, Clark.
Even though the team couldn't hit a free throw to save their life and the refs couldn't see an over-the-back foul {usually on you, 33.} to save their life, we pulled out a win! Granted we had to go to overtime, but wow! No one thought we could win the game! Way to go us.
Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of something good for the team. But, I'm not holding my breath.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Relax, don't do it...
This weekend has been so nice. We didn't have anything planned, except dinner with Kelly {and really, how crazy and stressful can that be?}.
Friday we had a drink after work, and then laid low.
Saturday we did a little cooking {we made a marinade for some flank steak} and then met Kelly at the Mont. As usual, the food was good and it was really fun to hang out with Kelly. We spend 3.5 hours at the Mont catching up!
Today has been equally low-key. I did my long run {5 miles} and have done a little work and a little laying on the couch.
We plan to cook the flank steak for dinner tonight {I'll let you know how the marinade works out} and make fajitas! I'm so pumped!
How was your weekend?
Friday we had a drink after work, and then laid low.
Saturday we did a little cooking {we made a marinade for some flank steak} and then met Kelly at the Mont. As usual, the food was good and it was really fun to hang out with Kelly. We spend 3.5 hours at the Mont catching up!
Today has been equally low-key. I did my long run {5 miles} and have done a little work and a little laying on the couch.
We plan to cook the flank steak for dinner tonight {I'll let you know how the marinade works out} and make fajitas! I'm so pumped!
How was your weekend?
Monday, January 4, 2010
HMT: Update
Let me tell ya, last week was not my best training effort. Despite my own personal guilt, I think {it's true, I can't really remember} I only ran on Tuesday.
I told myself I'd run. I even took my workout gear to Dallas so I could hop on one of the treadmills that LT's apartment complex offers, but nope. Didn't happen.
So, this week, I know I need to get back on the training train {ha!}, but the weather doesn't seem to want to cooperate. As trusty Gary England said tonight on the news, the Arctic barn door is open {I know, what?} and won't shut until at least Sunday.
The low tomorrow morning? 20ish, with a windchill of 6...ish. Wednesday morning is pretty much the same, but Thursday...oh Thursday. This is when it gets really interesting.
See, Thursday has decided to throw us a little high of, oh, around 18. And I think, I think, the winds are going to be in the 30 mph range. Suuuhhhweeet!
So, what does all this meteorology talk mean? It means my training has moved from morning outdoor workouts to their evil stepsister of afternoon inside workouts. It always seems to happen that when I have to wait until 4:30 or 5 to get on the treadmill, I'm way less likely to do it. Ugh!
Wish me luck. I hope the damn barn door shuts. And soon. Thank you.
I told myself I'd run. I even took my workout gear to Dallas so I could hop on one of the treadmills that LT's apartment complex offers, but nope. Didn't happen.
So, this week, I know I need to get back on the training train {ha!}, but the weather doesn't seem to want to cooperate. As trusty Gary England said tonight on the news, the Arctic barn door is open {I know, what?} and won't shut until at least Sunday.
The low tomorrow morning? 20ish, with a windchill of 6...ish. Wednesday morning is pretty much the same, but Thursday...oh Thursday. This is when it gets really interesting.
See, Thursday has decided to throw us a little high of, oh, around 18. And I think, I think, the winds are going to be in the 30 mph range. Suuuhhhweeet!
So, what does all this meteorology talk mean? It means my training has moved from morning outdoor workouts to their evil stepsister of afternoon inside workouts. It always seems to happen that when I have to wait until 4:30 or 5 to get on the treadmill, I'm way less likely to do it. Ugh!
Wish me luck. I hope the damn barn door shuts. And soon. Thank you.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
NYE in pictures
So these two are actually from Christmas eve, but I promised these pictures. And, as promised, here they are!
Me and LT
Me, J and LT on about our 40th attempt at a pic group pic!
Some of the girlies in attendance
Chris and J
Chris' footie pajamas
Champagne toast! {ps - you can totally get a plastic cut --similar to a papercut-- from those champagne glasses if you aren't careful!}
Not a whole bunch of pics, but I was having too much fun to catalog our whole night! Happy New Year {for possibly the third time...}!
I could've asked for a better night ... but I had a blast.
I've never really been one to make a lot out of New Year's Eve. In my opinion, it's one of those holidays when you're supposed to have fun, hence, you have minimal to no fun. So, the last couple of years, we've made loose plans in hopes that whatever we choose is chill enough, but still heavy on fun.
This year was no different. Except that it was totally different.
We've tried our hand at going to Dallas for NYE a couple of times, but each time, it just hasn't panned out, and we've ended up staying in good ol' OK. This year, however, we vowed to head south to Big D {I seriously cringe when people call Dallas this...seriously, I'm still cringing because I wrote it.}.
Nothing big. No club. No cover. No posers.
Instead, some friends were throwing a party at their house, which we would {willingly} attend and one of our best friends kindly offered up her own bed as a sacrifice to ensure that we'd be in Dallas for NYE {thanks LT!}.
Our day started with a W for the Sooners in the whatchamacallit Bowl {it was actually the Brut Sun Bowl, but seriously, who even knows what that is??}. Go Sooners! Our bowl losing streak is over!
The game was a lot longer than we thought, so we hightailed it back to LT's apartment to gussy ourselves up a bit before dinner and said house party.
Dinner was at Rocco's, a pizza place near LT's apartment. We were {of course} late, but the pizza was good. And, did I mention that we witnessed a fight between workers in the kitchen? One of the fighters {who also happened to be J's bf at Rocco's} was kicked out...never to return again {until his next shift, maybe?}. The food was good, and we were able to take some back home, for a little after-party snack!
By the time we made it to said party, it was in full swing! There were good tunes and a spread of food that, even after scarfing on pizza and cheese bread {your welcome my end of the table!}, I could hardly keep myself from hovering over.
A midnight kiss, a champagne toast, sparklers, fireworks, tearing up the dance floor and many hilarious one-liners later {hence this post's title, thanks ZB!}, it's 2010 and I can hardly believe it!
I hope everyone had a fabulous and safe NYE...onto the next one, I guess!
This year was no different. Except that it was totally different.
We've tried our hand at going to Dallas for NYE a couple of times, but each time, it just hasn't panned out, and we've ended up staying in good ol' OK. This year, however, we vowed to head south to Big D {I seriously cringe when people call Dallas this...seriously, I'm still cringing because I wrote it.}.
Nothing big. No club. No cover. No posers.
Instead, some friends were throwing a party at their house, which we would {willingly} attend and one of our best friends kindly offered up her own bed as a sacrifice to ensure that we'd be in Dallas for NYE {thanks LT!}.
Our day started with a W for the Sooners in the whatchamacallit Bowl {it was actually the Brut Sun Bowl, but seriously, who even knows what that is??}. Go Sooners! Our bowl losing streak is over!
The game was a lot longer than we thought, so we hightailed it back to LT's apartment to gussy ourselves up a bit before dinner and said house party.
Dinner was at Rocco's, a pizza place near LT's apartment. We were {of course} late, but the pizza was good. And, did I mention that we witnessed a fight between workers in the kitchen? One of the fighters {who also happened to be J's bf at Rocco's} was kicked out...never to return again {until his next shift, maybe?}. The food was good, and we were able to take some back home, for a little after-party snack!
By the time we made it to said party, it was in full swing! There were good tunes and a spread of food that, even after scarfing on pizza and cheese bread {your welcome my end of the table!}, I could hardly keep myself from hovering over.
A midnight kiss, a champagne toast, sparklers, fireworks, tearing up the dance floor and many hilarious one-liners later {hence this post's title, thanks ZB!}, it's 2010 and I can hardly believe it!
I hope everyone had a fabulous and safe NYE...onto the next one, I guess!
Friday, January 1, 2010
Hello Twenty-ten!
Can you believe that Y2K was 10 years ago? Can you believe we've been in the 2000s for ten years?
With all the craziness of starting a new decade, I have a couple of "resolutions" for the coming year. In no particular order:
•I've got to get myself in some kind of cleaning routine. I'm not so much the kind of gal to looove cleaning the house at all times. But, once I start cleaning, I'm usually a cleaning nazi, and if you stop cleaning before I think you should, you {ok, J} will get a dirty look as well as a couple of mumbled not-so-niceties. So, my plan for 2010 is to do a little bit of cleaning throughout the week. And, hey J...I'd like it if you pitche in during the week too!!
•You know this one, but I've got two half-marathons slated for early 2010, and I'd like to keep running and improve my times even after my two races.
•Organize, organize, organize. We have 3 bedrooms in our house. The master, a guest bedroom and our catch-all room. I'd really like to clean that {finally get the filing cabinet to the house, throw unneeded "stuff" away, take stuff to Goodwill/clothes closets, etc.} room out and maybe get another bed. That way, if we have more than one guest, or two male guests, they will each have their own separate bed. It's luxuries that we're trying to proved here, at casa Montgomery.
Those are the big ones {and, really, the only ones that I can think of off the top of my head}. I'm excited about what 2010 has to offer and hope that the new year is good to each of you!
Happy New Year!
With all the craziness of starting a new decade, I have a couple of "resolutions" for the coming year. In no particular order:
•I've got to get myself in some kind of cleaning routine. I'm not so much the kind of gal to looove cleaning the house at all times. But, once I start cleaning, I'm usually a cleaning nazi, and if you stop cleaning before I think you should, you {ok, J} will get a dirty look as well as a couple of mumbled not-so-niceties. So, my plan for 2010 is to do a little bit of cleaning throughout the week. And, hey J...I'd like it if you pitche in during the week too!!
•You know this one, but I've got two half-marathons slated for early 2010, and I'd like to keep running and improve my times even after my two races.
•Organize, organize, organize. We have 3 bedrooms in our house. The master, a guest bedroom and our catch-all room. I'd really like to clean that {finally get the filing cabinet to the house, throw unneeded "stuff" away, take stuff to Goodwill/clothes closets, etc.} room out and maybe get another bed. That way, if we have more than one guest, or two male guests, they will each have their own separate bed. It's luxuries that we're trying to proved here, at casa Montgomery.
Those are the big ones {and, really, the only ones that I can think of off the top of my head}. I'm excited about what 2010 has to offer and hope that the new year is good to each of you!
Happy New Year!
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