June 2011
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Random.
Two things-
1. I’m super excited right now because my former roommate who happens to have been an Olympic athlete just hit me up saying she wants to get into training to run a half this fall, and she doesn’t want to start up alone so she wants me to go with her. We start tomorrow. She claims to be really out of shape at the moment, so we’ll see how it goes :)
2. Something I...
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I am BEAT.
So I’m a day late doing it, but I decided I was gonna do it anyway cause I saw so many people do it yesterday.
I decided to give “Murph” a try.
Warmup:
1000 m row: 1013 m; 5:22
Murph:
1 mile run (9:57)
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 squats
1 mile run (11:36)
Final time: 74 minutes and 45 seconds.
I split up the pullups/pushups/squats into 10 rounds of 10...
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I think I'm devoting this week to CrossFit
I think what I am gonna try doing, since I have so many things I always want to do when it comes to exercise, I’m gonna have like, “focus weeks”, and each week I’ll work on something I have been meaning to do. And then I’ll slowly start incorporating together. I’m not saying I’m only gonna do that particular thing for the week, but it’ll be my...
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Something I've realized recently.
It is very difficult for me to grasp the concept that some people actually enjoy being around me and like me.
Ever since I was a kid, it’s been hard for me to have friends, I’d always been told how annoying I was. How clingy I am. How I talk too much.
I have my friends in Florida that were always good to me, but it’s been two years since I’ve seen them.
So hearing...
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I've been absent today!
I’ve been gone and don’t have much to report.
The last two nights I’ve spent hanging out with friends, and it’s been absolutely wonderful.
Friday night, as you guys know, I hung out with Andy after he moved into his new house, and last night I hung out with my friend Lauren. It was a good time. I started off yesterday with my Brazilian jiu jitsu class, then I headed over...
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My goodness.
I wasn’t gonna go, but ten minutes before it started I decided I was gonna go to Brazilian jiu jitsu at my capoeira studio. Holy crap. It had been like two months since I had been to a class. The inside of my knees hurt cause we were practicing “triangle”, and I was in an all boy class. And by boy, I mean grown man. It was so hard. Loved it. Except for the part when my head would...
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Hey guys!
Did you know…
It’s Ashleigh’s 21st birthday today??
‘Cause it is.
If you guys haven’t already, go wish her a happy birthday because she’s awesome!!
Hope everyone has an awesome day/weekend, stay safe! Love you all!
Happy Birthday Ashleigh!
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Today was pretty fantastic.
I slept in, then went to drive my friend Lauren to go get her birth control shot, and was rewarded with a trip to Chili’s!
After an awesome nap, I got to go see my favorite person, Andy. He moved to his new house today and so it was just me and him in his house, laying on new carpet, talking, and putting away some of his clothes. AND I got Chipotle! It was all very exciting. Oh, I gave him...
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What do I get for doing laundry?
Chapstick.
ALL OVER MY CLOTHES.
And it was a cheap version of it too.
NOT COOL. NOT COOL.
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Don’t know why, but this song is my theme...
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I'm a relatively healthy person.
But whenever I do get something, it’s always the most embarrassing, awkward, and typically not pleasant or easily cured kind of thing.
I’m convinced at times that my body doesn’t like me.
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OMG FITOCRACY LOOKS LIKE SO MUCH FUN.
I feel so special now. If anyone wants an invite let me know.
I love that it has all these awesome challenges. So excited!
And if anyone’s already on it add me, my screenname is beckyequalsme :)
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It's almost summer!!
I haven’t been in school or anything, but still.
Sooooo… my favorite thing to do is make lists, particularly of goals, so this is what I want to do this summer!
1. Participate in at LEAST 3 races, my running club’s got a few going on that are free over the summer, so if anything I’ll just do those.
2. Log 400 miles (sidenote: for me, I count summer to be like, ‘til...
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I didn't think it was possible
to feel as sore as I am right now.
It’s not as bad as after the marathon of course, but considering my soreness is from capoeira yesterday, it’s crazy. I have not been this sore from capoeira probably since this workshop we had where we had a Brazilian guest instructor come in to kick our asses like half a year ago. Hurts so good.
Like, my body is sore from head to toe. I had...
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I think I could safely say I kicked ass today.
I went to capoeira for an hour, then hung out with all my capoeira buddies for a bit. I forgot how active everyone is in capoeira, that it’s not just me. One of the guys in my class has run 3 marathons, he did his most recent one two weeks before mine. And he’s a total badass in our class. Another guy is a gymnast/tumbler (I totally wrote tumblr first) who was basically raised in the...
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I don't think this is normal..
Here I am past the halfway point on my 5 mile run and I’ve been feeling really weird with every step I take. Like I forgot how to run or something. Im not even physically tired. My body just doesn’t want to run or something. Any suggestions?
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One last note.
Gratuitous picture of yourself Wednesday: “I don’t look so bad” edition!
And my hair looks cute! My pigtails are still intact and the bangs I gave myself make my hair look even better with pigtails :)
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WIW!
Week #31
SW: 168 lbs
Last week’s weigh in: 148.6 lbs
CW: 147 lbs
-1.6 lbs
Total Weight lost: 21 lbs
Been here before, and that’s just fine, at least the number on the scale’s going down! I have yet to workout today, but that’s gonna change in a few minutes. I’m pumped for today! I’m gonna go do weights now at the school rec, and luckily, even though the...
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Okay.
That’s it.
I don’t make a lot of “starting over”, “this time I’m gonna get it right” kind of posts, because I don’t believe in starting over, I believe in working with the time I have, every minute is like a new beginning.
I’m not starting over per say, but this is me revving up my engine because I’m gonna start giving it all I’ve...
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Been feeling less than inspiring the last couple...
I had this whole plan for my workouts and they have fallen through, mostly from my laziness, partially because of my gym only being open til 8pm.
Yesterday my excuses were that I didn’t have capoeira. Today was because I went to bed last night at 4am, had to get up for the doctor’s at 7am to get my shot, my arm is still sore, and finally got rest time at around noon, I slept til...
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Staying away from my dash
Until I get home and watch Biggest Loser.
Staying away from SPOILERS (you know who you are!)!
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Woot!
Getting my birth control shot in like an hour. It’s cutting it close, tomorrow was the last day I had to get it to not mess things up- and I wouldn’t want that, because that means messing up the happy deal that I have with my body of not getting shark week. It’s been like, 9 months since that’s happened.
This is also you guys’ warning, if you haven’t been...
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So from a shitty day..
Came a REALLY fantastic night.
It is so nice to be around people that I don’t have to pretend around. Absolutely the best thing.
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SHITTY.
So I decided today that I was gonna go back to capoeira.
I was gonna go to the gym, but decided just in case to save my strength for capoeira.
I show up to the studio, not a single car anywhere. I go to check my email- I mixed up the dates when “Spring Break” is for the studio. It’s this week, not next week.
So I skipped the gym for no reason (it closes at 8), didn’t get...
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Fear.
It’s amazing what it can do.And sometimes hilarious.
Take me, for example. I’m TERRIFIED of any bug that flies or hops.
Lucky me, living in the room next to the garage, got to see this giant wasp/bee-ish looking thing crawling on my stuffed animals. I run upstairs to my sister and niece screaming for them to help me, my sister laughs and says “You really think I’m gonna...
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a...”
– ~ William James
Not us. Reason #497 why we all will succeed.
(via theroadtoslimcity)
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Haha I love you guys.
Haha, don’t worry guys. Not anything drastic like when I was in high school and cut my hair to this:
(Me at 16, after two bleachings of my hair from black, and a horrible self-haircut)
I just went from this:
to this:
I just cut the hair that frames my face, and a snip here and there on the long bits. I usually do this as like the rough draft of what I want my hair to do then take...
I think I'm gonna go cut my own hair now.
Wish me luck.
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Something new?
I am in the process of trying to lose weight, but since that’s gonna take awhile, I kinda want to do something new with like, my hair.
I was saving it for when I got into the 130s, but I kinda want to dye my hair blonde. Now to just find the money for it. Or find something else to change that is relatively inexpensive. I don’t know how to do girly things like change my hairstyles or...
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So I think I'm quitting my new job.
I am not cut out for working in the bar atmosphere. Especially at hole-in-the-wall place suited for Mexican men of all ages. I only worked two nights, Thursday and last night. But just..no.
Thursday night, I get there at 8pm and there was this one Mexican dude that was already drunk off his ass. He was the only one there at the time. He immediately started hitting on me, asked to touch my hair...
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I feel like as of late..
I’ve really been pimpin’.
There’s Kyle, then there’s Gabe who is going to basic in a month, and this other guy Josh, that guy Scott that I met yesterday now, and I feel like I’m forgetting someone.
When did I start being in such demand all of a sudden? Nothing’s different.
And all of these guys I’m still on the fence about. It’s not like I’m...
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Something I find really annoying.
When guys are like, “Hey! We should hang out!” and after I agree, ask them what they had in mind, they’re like, “I don’t know, what do you want to do?” YOU asked ME to hang out, damn it. Make a decision.
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NSVs FTW!
So I forgot to mention these teeny NSVs that happened the last two nights!
Not a big deal, but made me feel cool.
The last two nights, I’ve hung out with two separate sets of friends, and they’re all skinny and whatever, but both nights my friends mentioned that they’re jealous that they’re not anywhere close to being in the shape that I’m in :)
Oh, and this...
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I kinda want to go out for a run today.
But at the same time, I don’t have to, so there’s not really much motivation to, since I don’t have a training schedule that is telling me what to do.
I don’t know. My legs are still sore from yesterday’s working, I hadn’t done leg presses and squats in over a month and a half. I feel it around my knees for some reason.
I kinda want to swim too. But I...
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Yayyy Exercise!
So I had a bit of an unsettled stomach during my workout, so it was hard to go through, but I stuck it out. Half the machines I needed were messed up, so my workout was cut short on a few things. Plus, I only had about an hour to do everything.
Warmup:
517 m row: 2:46
10 double unders
20 air squats
Weights:
Squats: 8-8-6 @ 75-105-130 lbs
Leg Press: 3x8 @ 190-210-170 lbs
Hip Abduction...
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4 days
of calorie counting.
And ONE day of exercise, and I’m already at my usual pre-marathon weight. 146. That’s 3 pounds since Monday. My body did not like those extra couple of pounds, apparently. Lol.
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Today was one of the best days ever, seriously.
Let me recount the day for you-
Got to sleep in til almost 11am
Got to workout at the gym
Did awesome at the gym
My mom made me turkey burgers cooked in coconut oil
Got to take a nap
Went to my first day of working at a bar (though I did get super creeped on by a dude that was drunk by 8pm)
Was let off work at 11pm
Made $35 in 3 hours
Got to see ANDY
Had the best conversations with Andy...
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