The big 1-0!
This morning started off like any morning. Except for the fact that it was a 10-miler and I hit the snooze button, waking up an hour late to the sound of birds chirping and sun blaring in. I threw on my clothes, made a cup of coffee and ate my standard pre-run fare.
Almond butter and banana toast x’s 2. I also prepared a bag with the other half of the banana, a sport gel that came in the triathlon goodie bag, water and sun screen to re-apply if needed. I wore the hat and sun glasses.
Looping our campus 1.5 times is an even 1o miles. I drove this bag to my half-way point and hid it behind a tree. I also left a lovely note on it.
I drove back to my house and took off on my run. I found myself coming up with excuses to not run the full ten: you started late, you have to go grocery shopping, you have to do homework, you have meetings. In reality, there were no pressing matters and I wasn’t meeting with my lab group until 2pm. After mile 3, I got into my groove and those thoughts went away. The weather was beautiful, my legs were turning themselves and I was jamming out to Latin reggae. Utter bliss. Until mile 7, that is.
My hips started cramping, but luckily I was coming up to the snack tree. I ate the banana, drank some water and was off like a race car out of the pit stop. I felt amazing on mile 7-10. As it turns out, I actually ran 10.5 miles because I took a wrong turn.
This was my first 10.5 mile run EVER!! I can’t even describe the satisfaction I got from achieving this. Its was AMAZING!!! I felt like I could do anything. I’m excited to reach the next mile-markers in the next few weekends.
As soon as I got back I made a green monster. This recovery smoothie contained soy milk, frozen peach and pineapple chunks, protein powder, greek yogurt, ground flax seed, oats and A LOT of spinach.
It ended up making 1.5 glasses which I drank while stretching. Immediately after stretching, I took all the ice from the freezer and dumped it into a cold water bath. Ice baths and green monsters work miracles. After last weeks run I did the same thing and was not sore or stiff the next day.
I then made an egg white scramble with spinach, a sweet potato and fruit.
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful – grocery shopping, meeting a lab group, making tofu teriyaki and granola bars and doing some homework.
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Let me rewind to yesterday. I met my lab group to work on our report. We got a lot done and decided to all go our separate ways to finish up our respected parts. I then met a friend a the rec where we did 30 minutes on the elliptical (with a personal TV!), swam laps for 20 minutes and laid out by the pool, talked and read books. It was so relaxing and just what I needed.
We continued our relaxing evening by heading to a cafe and noticed a flyer for free salsa dancing lessons and Latin dancing night afterward.
Calm cafe by day, raving Latin club by night. We decided to meet back up at 9:30 for the salsa lessons.
If you’ve been following the blog for a while, you might remember that I took lessons all summer and absolutely loved it. Last night was no exception. There was probably 50+ people at the lessons and even more started showing up for the latin night. There were advanced dancers and beginners at the lessons. It was a great social scene because most of the participants were college students. A couple of the advanced guys I danced with were GOOD! I was spinning and doing all sorts of cool moves that I never even knew existed. I also danced with the instructor and oooo–weee was he good!!!!
There is a free (yes, free!) 2 hour lessons this Wednesday evening. You know where I will be Wednesday night.
Needless to say, you can probably see why I slept in, but it was worth it.
I hope you had a fabulous weekend too!!
I still have a homework assignment that is calling my name….
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