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Friday Five, The Gun Show Edition!!

  1. Pow! Look at those guns, baby! I have been pretty consistently lifting weights twice a week for an hour for two months now. Bam! Progress! I also got up and ran before work Tuesday-Friday this week. I’m on the treadmill by 4:55am. Who am I? (Oh yeah, I’m fiercely competitive and my 65 year old co-worker was beating me on the FitBit leaderboard. Not now, baby!!) I’m hoping to hit my steps before 11am. I’m less than 1,000 away right now.
  2. I’m heading to Omaha tonight for some time with the Bestie to watch one of the most fabulously campy Halloween movies ever made: Teen Witch! (Top That!) If you’ve seen it, then you will get that reference!
  3. Husker game this weekend (FOR FREE!!) with my friend Amber, my mom and her friend Annette. Girls day out! (My dad has to work.) I have to edit more videos after the game, but so far I’ve done 8 of the 10 I’ve been given. 
  4. two-o-nine and I FaceTimed Last night. Those conversations are the best conversations. She also helped me figure out how to take a screenshot on my iPad Mini. image
  5. One more week in the office, then I head to Denver for our Annual conference November 1st-9th, AND then after that we get the next week off!! (What is my life? Am I dreaming? Comp time for conference? I’m a happy girl!)

Happy Friday Friends!!

On Sunday, I ran my 10th Half Marathon in Omaha. (There were countless other runs that were at least that long during training runs, but these were the ones that I paid for and got medals for!) So I decided to make a fun little collage to commemorate the milestone! Here are my efforts.

It has my Full Marathon and the Beat The Blerch, which I don’t count as #11 because I ran 1 race and got 2 medals, because that’s how I roll. 

Things of note: I really like that blue jacket. And my sweet white sweat bands. And bright colors. Yikes!

Anyway, just wanted this to live here forever to remind me of all of the hard work and dedication that it took to do it!

Me, Today.

My legs are a little tight today, but not too bad. I am sore though! 

You really do have to forget the pain of the last race before you’re willing to do another. Seeing as the Omaha Half was just yesterday, I’m not ready to forget that pain yet. Sometimes I think, maybe I should do another Full Marathon. Then I think, LOLZ, NOPE, and I’m happy with halfs and shorter races. So is my knee.

What’s that I see? Are those Melissa’s legs in SHORTS for an outside run for the first time in forever?

Why yes, yes they are! It is so nice outside. I wanted to run 13 miles, but woke up too late for that. I then decided I could run 7, but cut it down to 5 when I realized my cold was still kicking my butt.

I’m not complaining, but you guys! It was almost humid out! I am not acclimated to the warm weather yet. They’re forecasting thunderstorms possibly tonight, so that explains the humidity and warmth. It was a rough, rough run. 5 miles//12:07 pace. So slow for me. 

There were a few houses with their sprinklers on. I was a fan, especially when the wind caught the water and I got a cool, wet breeze. I was HOT!

And, some trees are blooming. Hooray for spring!

I’m going to hit the showers and get ready to head to Corky this afternoon.

Happy Weekend friends!