Thursday, November 20, 2003

thursday again!
how did that happen?

congratulations mom! did you change your mind about the presidency, then?

since everyone else is giving their running reports today, i'm going to join in as well: i ran 4 miles yesterday (without walking! yeah!) in 40 minutes. man that feels good! today will be biking, due to some shin splints that i'm trying to recover from. apparently, i'm supposed to cut my mileage 30-50%. by the way, mare-core, i know i should rest next weds, but i think i'll do an easy 2miler on tues--just to remind my legs of what they're supposed to do. :)

i LOVE and am ADDICTED to running. i finally figured out that i run best at a certain pace (breathe in 2 paces, breathe out 2 paces) and it is getting easier to get into that pace and just be machine-like. and best is when the endorphins kick in and i'm running and thinking in my head and i look down and my body and i think, "huh! my body is moving but i don't really feel it." a fake out of body experience.

i'm listening to old juliana theory and matt's going to play basketball.
he applied for 4 more jobs today--it's good that there's something out there at least!

and now for some personal messages:
rydogg, are you ever going to update your blog? come on guy, you've had a month off!:)
michael, are you going to run the thanksgiving day race with us?
emily, read matt's mom's blog.
grammy, your blog made me hungry!

1 week until the best meal of the year!!!
-tracey

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

yum.
i just had my favorite dinner: salad and bread with cheese and white wine.

yeah, mare, i'm getting there for the race but i'm annoyed by the shin splints--i'm icing them every night, though, so hopefully won't be too bad in a week and a half. i seem to be averaging between 28-29 minutes for the 5ks i run in practice. we'll see how thanksgiving day goes.
i, too, am exhausted on sundays after the long runs--my last 5 miler was rough-mentally and physically.

i just got some fun christmas ornaments in the mail from kevin and emily-yay! thanks guys! they made me so happy!

i had sort of an annoying day of meetings with a counselor who is rude, condescending, and has no social skills. how is she a counselor??? i was glad to get away from work for the first time in a long time. and at 3:20, in the middle of one of my meetings, i just happened to look at my planner and notice that i had a 2:30 meeting at my other school. heart attack time! i called over there and everyone was just finishing talking about their findings so i flew over there, just in time to present my findings. whew! thankfully, both the teacher and parents were so cool about me being late (and i didn't really need to be there for the rest of it anyways). but still, it left me sort of discumbobulated (i love that word but i don't know if i'm spelling it right!) for the evening. surprisingly, i calmed down after some grocery shopping and "friends" watching. now i'm in my jammies and i'm just going to veg out for the night.

we bought our christmas tickets!
can't wait to see everyone!

tracey