Tag: fargo marathon

“Back to life, Back to reality”

I only took one extra day off work in conjunction with my weekend. Just one extra day. But somehow, I’m just not into working today. I want to go back to Fargo and I want to hang out with Brooke, Bailee and Johnna. I don’t want to run a race for awhile, but I want to see my friends. 3 days just wasn’t enough. I had the BEST time! Now I just need to renew my passport so I can visit Brooke in Winnepeg. I also need to save some cash to go visit Johnna (and the rest of the tumblrs) in New York City! It was also so amazing to get to meet Susie! It felt like we were all old friends already!

In other news…This is the first time in a loooonnng time that I’m not signed up for any races. Not even a 5k. That’s likely to change soon…there’s a 10k in my hometown that I think I want to do on Father’s day. And a 5k a in a small town a few weeks later. But no halfs, no fulls, no warrior dashes…nothing. It’s an odd feeling. I think I rather like it.

I like to forget that running a half always puts me up a few pounds. So getting on the scale this morning was upsetting. But honestly, since I’m not racing I think the plan is to try something new: HIIT training, cross training and cutting out crap. Let’s face it: I like dessert but my gut and thighs don’t. So I’m going to make a new training schedule that focuses on weight loss. Because, realistically I’d like to lose about 10 pounds. Totally doable. Here’s to keeping myself accountable.

I will post a recap of the races/weekend. Because it was too awesome not to recap. All weekend long I kept thinking of this quote:

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” -C.S. Lewis.

I’m so lucky to have friends like Brooke, Bailee, and Johnna. What a fantastic weekend! Thanks ladies!

Half Marathon #5 done. Not a PR, but I ran this entire race with some fantastic friends; Brooke and Johnna, and that was awesome. It rained, we got hot when the sun finally came out, Brooke had some rage, and doesn’t trust North Dakotans because they may be lying about the location of the FargoDome, and I questioned their judgment when it comes to race routes…but hey, we got 3 medals this weekend! I consider all of that a win.

Rage running. It’s a thing.

It’s a 7 hour drive to Fargo

From Lincoln, Nebraska. So Bailee and I started out last night and made it to Sioux city, IA around 1130pm. We left Lincoln at 930.

We got a lovely hotel room and now we’re about to grab a free breakfast and hit the road for another 5 hours.

Ugh. However, Bailee is an excellent roadtrip companion!

See ya soon Brooke and Johnna!

Monday, Monday

  • We got our bib #’s for the Fargo Marathon today. Apparently, I can’t type because I entered my birth date at 1986 instead of 1982. So they think I’m 27 instead of 31. Score one for me! However, that means I’m in the wrong age group. My bad! I think I can fix it at the packet pickup.
  • Bailee and I are driving 7 hours together to Fargo Thursday/Friday. I like to sing along to the radio when I drive/road trip. Poor, poor Bailee. She’s gonna have fun! 🙂
  • Remember I double-booked myself with dates on Thursday? Yeah. Well, date number 2 was a no-show. He texted me, saying that his ex-wife hadn’t show up to pick up their daughter. 45 minutes later she still hadn’t and he texted me again, apologizing all over himself about it. I told him it was fine, in fact, I was in the middle of the Glee finale so I wasn’t that upset about it! We made plans to go out tonight.
  • On a whim, I texted him earlier today to see if we were still on. His reply? He said that he was home, sick in bed and felt so awful about ditching me again. Do I believe him? I’m not sure. He says he still wants to see me, and I told him I could maybe do something Wednesday night. We shall see. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I’m certainly not holding me breath about this one.
  • My co-worker that is friends with Thursday’s lunch date emailed him today. He said he thought the date went well and that he wanted to go out again. I have yet to hear from him. We shall see on this one too.

To reply to a few replies to my canceling my Match subscription:

robbsrunning said: Perhaps joining a running group, may get you a nice running guy? 😉

This is a great idea Robb! Someone with similar interests would be great. I will look into it!

trivialbob said: Just don’t go get a dozen cats as a substitute.

No worries Bob, I’m quite allergic to cats! 😉

baileerunsthroughlife said: But I’m going to miss all your stories! 😉

Sorry Bailee, I will try to find other dates to give you great stories. Plus, there are some stories that I haven’t shared with you all! Those are some gems! I will post about those later.

Fargo Half-Marathon

I’m registered.

Brooke and I are running it and doing the Go Far Challenge. That means a 5k Friday night and half Marathon on Saturday morning. Easy-peasy and totally doable. In fact, I’m fairly confident I could run a half marathon tomorrow if you told me to. I ran 10 miles on Thursday and Monday. 3.1 more is no biggie.

Any other Tumblrs want to come and run with us?

I plan on running the Lincoln half-marathon on May 5th as well. That one should be great! Its my third Lincoln half and 2nd running with my tumblrs! Lindsay and I are going to do the Half, and Steph and Holli are going to kill their first Full Marathons.

In other news, I have so much Christmas shopping left to do its not even funny. Amazon prime, you are my friend. Thank goodness for free 3 day shipping. I’m being such a scrooge this holiday season, and I hate that. I need to get myself in gear and get it done.

Hope you all have a wonderful day friends!

Got vacation time approved today for the Fargo Half-Marathon with Brooke! I’m so excited! Since I work in TV News, we aren’t supposed to take time off during sweeps, or the ratings periods. Those are February, May, July and November. But they will grant exceptions. And this was one of them!! My General Manager had to sign off on it first, before my boss would. But he said yes and I’m so excited!