Not Quite 30

With yesterday being the big 2-9 I didn't do much in the way of running. For my birthday I treated myself to junk food and doing nothing. Normally I celebrate a birthday week but I decided to scale back a bit this year ;) For breakfast I treated myself to an Einstein bagel with not peanut butter but yes...cream cheese. Delish! I have been craving one for weeks. And I normally don't eat bagels so that was a weird craving for me to have. At Einsteins' there were a group of runners meeting after their morning freezing snow covered run. I have to say I was a bit envious of their gusto on getting out there and running in the nasty stuff. Later last night Jacob took me to Buca de Bepo, family style Italian at its best. I know this is a chain restaurant and I have many delicious and different restaurants to choose from in our huge city but buca is so yummy! He surprised me and had 4 of my friends meet us there and of course there was too much wine and food. But if you can't do that on your day then when can you?!? So needless to say I didn't get much of anything done today either. So lazy. And so not happy this weekend also brought the spring forward junk. I hate losing an hour and I think this whole changing our clocks twice a year is whack.

Oh and after weeks of calling around Jacob's dad was able to find a Wii this morning! I was all sad yesterday when Jacob told me he had been trying to find one with no luck in the city of Chicago, central IL, AND northern Ohio. But then today Best Buy was advertising them, Jerry went to ask, they got a shipment of 50 instead of 30 and there were 8 left. Wahoo!!! It is going to be in my hot little hands before the end of this week. I am soooooo excited. Can not wait to bowl and play tennis to my hearts content.

Last Trip (maybe)

Getting ready to leave on what potentially might be the last business trip of this year! I'm not going to get too excited yet because things (such as my manager's prerogative or study time lines) could always change. But as of Weds, Nov 28th at 6:15 I officially have nothing else on the calendar in the way of work travel. wahoo! But my running schedule is all messed up this week because of this short trip. I'm trying not to get too stressed about everything being all mixed up/fitting everything in for the week. Just before lunch today I was able to get in the "easy" 7 miles I had on the schedule. They didn't feel so easy but I maintained a decent pace. I wasn't really looking at the watch too much...just didn't have the energy to lift my arm to look at it. It was one of those runs that I just wasn't really feeling it but I wanted to get it done. It lacked all excitement and enjoyment. Lately that has been happening. I am sure it is both a combination of general burnout from this long training schedule and my poor food choices. I am trying to get back on track with the food this week - I even packed my own dinner to take on the plane (okay there maybe a cookie in with the apple and turkey sandwich). Hopefully that will make the difference in a couple of weeks...