When did blogger turn into a dirty old man?

So last week I was reading one of my very favorite non-running blogs when I happened upon this hilarious post.

I didn't think much about it until I went to comment on Natalie's blog a few days ago and this little beauty popped up.



Um, excuse me? That's what she said?

What is going on with Blogger lately? Do you think this is like when the Disney animators get bored and end up giving animated characters hard-ons on the sly to see if anyone will notice? Crazy computer nerds.

Anyway, this past week has been pretty busy. Jeremy and I did one of our last long runs on Saturday and it was not pretty. We decided to jazz things up a bit by running through Wissahickon Park (the place where all the pretty leaf pictures were taken a few weeks back). I usually love running through this park, but neither one of us were feeling it on Saturday. I think the fact that it's not paved, it's pretty hilly and it was 20 degrees warmer than our last couple of long runs really did us in. We ended up running it at a 10mm pace (12 miles/2:01/10:00 pace) which is the slowest I have run any run in awhile. The sad part is, it felt like we were running waaaaaaay faster than that. We both thought so. Not the motivational run we were hoping for so close to the big day.

So that night we decided to drown our sorrows with some friends from Jersey who drove to our hood and spent the night. We made a ton of food before we went out, then bar-hopped up and down Main Street for a couple of hours. Much like our run earlier in the day, it was not pretty, at least not on Sunday. It was fun though.

Sunday we sat on the couch. All. Day. Nuff said.

Monday I ventured out for another run. I decided to do a 7 miler up the bike path since I don't have as much time to run it as I would like now that it's dark earlier. I headed out for what I thought was going to be an amazing run, but much like the debacle on Saturday, my body just felt heavy and sluggish. It may have been the remaining Absolut that was trying desperately to escape my pores while I was running, but I chalked it up to end-of-training exhaustion. While my pace wasn't bad (7 miles/1:04:50/9:15 pace) I just struggled the whole time. Blah.

Afterwards I walked up to Main Street for a snazzy new hairdo. Haven't had a cut since June and it was desperately needed.





Sorry about my scary stalker-eyes in that last picture...EEK!

The rest of the week has been spent working, which has been getting busier and busier by the day. I really love my new job, but I really wish they would hire me full-time not only for more money, but also because I feel like I could get so much more done and not feel as rushed by working 5 days instead of 3. Oh well. Maybe someday soon.

Here's a picture I took the other day while I was waiting for the train.



I may go for a run tomorrow night on Main again after work, or just wait until Friday and get in another 7 or 8.5. Our last "long run" is this Saturday (8 miles) and since we are going to go pretty easy, I don't mind running two days in a row. Wow, it's so close!!!

Here are my runs from last week since I was too lazy (hungover) this weekend to post.

Monday, 11/03 - 8.4 miles/1:14:53 - 8:52
Tuesday, 11/04 - off
Wednesday, 11/05 - off
Thursday, 11/06 - 6.5 miles/ 60:18 - 9:16 pace
Friday, 11/07 - off
Saturday, 11/08 - 12 miles/2:01 - 10:00 pace.
Sunday, 11/09 - off

Total Weekly Mileage: 26.9 (RUN)
Total Weekly Mileage: 0 (BIKE)