Rain, Rain, Go AWAY!

I didn't write anything the other day cause nothing happened. It's been really crappy weather lately and raining ALL day. Needless to say... with all the rain, no running or biking. Boring, I know. I hate going out in the rain so I had to stay inside and make new friends.

my besties

Yesterday I finally got out for the 2 hours it wasn't raining and road on my bike again. I ended up doing the same miles in the same amount of time like the other day, but I felt like this ride was more of a work out than the last. I'm still trying to get used to switching gears more often than not. I don't know about you but when I was younger and road a bike everywhere, I never actually changed gears. So it's been a little weird getting used to changing them when the going gets tough. 

Today, after my Spanish class, I'm off to go visit my family. My best friend signed us up for a Muddy Buddy race which is back home (North Ga). It's about 4.5 hours to get home so I'm going to try and get there sooner rather than later. Everything is packed up (our races costumes included) and I've decided to bring my bike with me on the long trip. My dad rides a bike a night so I figured I could get some good daddy and me bonding going by joining him.

Well... wish my luck in my race, I'll be sure to post pictures when I can. Don't expect to hear from me till at least Sunday. I'm bringing my laptop with me on my road trip but will probably not get to blogging until Sunday since the race is Saturday morning. Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!

Thank God for Porta Potties!

Yesterday started off on a bad note. First, I wanted to run in the morning but (again) sleeping in was what I ended up doing. Second, I had a Spanish test that I was only kinda prepared for. And third, I walked out of my apt and nearly screamed bloody murder when I was this...

It might not look big and it might be dead but it still scared the crap out of me when I thought it was still breathing. I don't know why it decided to die right in front of our door and I wish the next time a spider decides to leave this world it will just do it in a normal place... like the woods.

I think my Spanish test went pretty good, Hopefully I got an A. It was a little iffy. I felt prepared but I felt the test was kinda hard. It sucks cause I still don't know a lot of words so when there is a sentence with a word I don't know I just kinda have to try and guess.

Good news though! I rode my bike yesterday. So even though I didn't get my run in I did get some exercise. After an hour on the bike my butt felt like it had been beat with a 2x4. I read that that normally happens to people who start cycling. It's supposed to take a week or two to get used too. Hopefully closer to a week. I took some pictures along the way...

I know, I know, WHERE IS MY HELMET!?! Well, I don't have one so shut your face. I do plan on buying one just haven't gotten around to it yet. Half way through my ride I had to pee but to my luck there were TONS of porta potties all over the place so I picked out my fav and stopped by...

Just kiddin....maybe :). 

To top off my awesome day I decided that I deserved a present and bought this for myself.

Yes, I LOVE these dumb expensive magazines. I don't know why I care so much about these people but I do. Me and my bestie Jessica Simpson talked about her doing the cover for US Weekly but People was gunna give her more money so needless to say, greed took over and People it is!

To much espanol.

I'm taking a Spanish class this summer and we have homework that is due online once a week. Me, being the awesome person I am decided that I wanted to put it off and I had to wake up at the crack of dawn to complete it all. Yuck. I really wanted to go run but didn't have enough time (it took me over 2 hours to finish a weeks worth of homework). What was even worse was the fact that I didn't get good sleep on Saturday night (thank you roomie!), had to stay up to finish my book report till past 11 pm on Sunday (my fault completely), and then had to wake up super early for Spanish. I'm not normally that bad with planning my school work but when I tried to start my book report I just couldn't think at all and nothing was coming out. It took me three hours to get two small paragraphs. Which threw off me starting on my Spanish. Needless to say... This week I'm going to keep up with my homework so that doesn't happen again. 

libro be espanol

I also got this in the mail yesterday...

I decided to buy a subscription because I was buying them at the store, which is WAY more expensive, plus they told me I was gunna get all these CRAZY AWESOME FREE gifts. Which they weren't. I was very disappointed in the free "books". They were more like pamphlets. Well... for $12 I guess it was a bad deal. I do read the magazines I get but I don't think I will be resubscribing when my time it up. I just don't think I'm that hardcore of a runner to need to read the stuff in there.

I did go running yesterday, GO ME! After my roomie and I finished watching the redbox we get like 80,000 years ago, I dropped them off and headed to the park.

I ran a quick mile (9:35), chugged my chocolate milk, and went home. Super quick, but I figure that is better than sitting on my butt all night. When I did my mile, unlike last time, I didn't stop running at all. I got a cramp one time and the other time I was just tired. When I started my run I was debating on running as quick as I could and taking walk breaks for the whole mile or just keeping a steady faster pace. Needless to say, when I started my run I still hadn't figured it out and started WAY to fast. Yesterday though I went in knowing that I just wanted to keep a faster steady pace and not stop at all and that's what I did! I was planning on doing two miles, run one walk for a quarter mile, then do another faster mile but after I finished my first one I started feeling nauseous.  I was hoping it would go away but it didn't so I just stopped after the one. I think it was because I ate dinner before I ran (well two hours before) and it didn't sit right or I ate to much. Either way, I'm never going to eat eggs and peanut butter (not together freak!) before a run again. 

When I got home from my run, roomie was watching this...

The O.C. for those that don't remember. So I sat down and joined her for two episodes. The O.C. is one of my favorite tv shows. I'm not gunna lie. I love it. Dawson's Creek would probably be my favorite, but they are VERY close.