Hello everyone! Today is such a beautiful day outside, is it not? This morning I woke up feeling better than I have been feeling- still not 100%- but well enough to crank out my 14 miles. I decided not to go to the NCR trail and just to run around the streets surrounding my school- I actually ended up picking a very awesome (yet very hilly) route! I would absolutely do it again 😉 My avg pace only ended up being 8:54/mi and even though I am clearly not thrilled with that pace in the least bit I was not worried about how fast I was running throughout the run at all. I knew I was feeling sick and so I decided to just take my time and enjoy the run as best as I could. And I honestly did enjoy the run- it was too beautiful outside not to! Next saturday (halloween) will be my longest run yet- 20 miles! So on Friday I will go home to philly (get dinner with my sisters and parents or something) and run with my sister on saturday….. and then I will come back to baltimore to celebrate halloween with my friends!!! (we are being nerds ;)) The marathon is quickly approaching and I am getting sooo excited…and nervous too! After next weekend’s 20 miles- it is time to taper down! woot woot
I came home and had my very first bowl of overnight pumpkin oats– and let me tell you- this was AWESOME! I added lots of spices in the morning which really brought out the pumpkiny flavor of it. It was so creamy and pretty much hit the spottttt. If you have not tried this- please do so ASAP. that did not quite fill me up after the run- so I had a piece of cinnamon raisin ezekiel bread with pb and ab on top. plus some grapes 😉 hey- I am a hungry girl haha
and then…. my friends and I went pumpkin and apple picking!! so much fun! after we were done picking we went back up to where the bakery and farm market was. There was tons of venders around- for food, face painting, etc. I got kettle corn- yummyy. on the way home- we stopped at Panera for dinner- always a good decision in my book- i got black bean soup and a mediterranean veggie sandwhichhhh. Here are some pictures of the day:
the roommates 😉 :
and then there is joe with his farm animals
I had to teach my spinning class tonight- I chose the playlist Lovers in Japan
Okay—time for physics, microbiology, and Calc homework- let the week begin. Hope you all had a nice day!!
-Christina
Good luck on homework. I have been wanting to go apple picking for sooo long now. I just need a Saturday that’s not cold and rainy, which looks like it might never happen! And 14 miles is awesome at any pace, and sometimes it’s best to just enjoy it rather than push.
apple picking = the best! great job on the long run and eeeeek marathon = soooo close 🙂
Looks like you had such a great day!! I wish I could go Pumpkin picking – such a fall and halloween thing to do! You’ll have to post pics of your halloween costume next weekend – fun idea 🙂 And, I am drooo-ling over that bowl of oats…it’s the consistency that I love to have – not too watery and not too dry – I usually eat my banana on the side too – but it looks delish chopped up in the bowl 🙂 Great job on the 14-miler. I’ve been sore as heck the past 2 days and could barely make it on the bike for 30 mins today. Been in the yoga training – alot of sitting for the first weekend so that didn’t help much I guess.
Are you kidding me? 14 miles not feeling well? I thought I was kickin it yesterday doing 5 on 4 hours of sleep!
I recently enjoyed chopping up banana and smearing quark on it with nutmeg…very yummy!
Apple picking looks so much fun…is it bad that I don’t think I’ve ever gone..? Haha, anyways good job on getting yet another long run down. 20 miler next weekend whoooooo!
NIce job on the long run. Are you excited for your 20 miler on Halloween? At least you caneat a lot of candy 😉
oh yeahhh i am very very excited!!
Hey there. I don’t think i’ve come across yoru blog before but am so glad I have now found it! You are such a cuite and i’ve had so much fun reading your posts!!
Awesome run!!! Your apple picking adventures look like fun too… carve something good!!