Hey everyone! Thanks for all the name suggestions for my New iPhone!!! Keep em’ coming!!! I am in love with this thing! I spend my bus ride into work listening to my music and reading blogs, how did I live without this thing? One of my classmates told me the other day that I would love it, and she was RIGHT! Thanks, Lea!

This morning I hopped out of bed and headed out for a run.  It was pretty cold out, my iPhone (you guys getting sick of the iPhone talk yet?) told me it was 36 degrees out! I had a really difficult run. I started off fine, but right at the 2 mile mark I started getting this awful stomach pains. They felt like really, really, bad menstrual cramps. My immediate reaction was, “Ugh, no!” Then I thought back and realized they couldn’t be menstrual cramps, because it was not that time for me. Plus, these were way worse than the cramps I usually get. I had to run through it because I had to get home and get ready for work and I was about 2 miles from my apartment. On top of that, I had to stop at a traffic light and forgot to restart my Garmin again until I was about 1/2 a mile past the light. Ugh! So here are my stats.

My Garmin recorded almost 3.5 miles (which was actually more like 4) in 31:14

Splits:

Mile 1: 8:54

Mile 2: 8:46

Mile 3: 9:11

last .47 miles: 4:22

I feel like I still did pretty well even though it was a pretty bad run. I have gotten e-mails asking me when I write that I have had a “bad run” what I mean. So, I think that this would be a good time to touch on that. Clearly, looking at my stats today, you can see my run was not really “bad”.  I ran a descent distance at pace that is pretty normal for me. However, as I have explained in a number of posts before, I love running. I enjoy it, sometimes it even borders on being a spiritual experience for me. It is a time when I am truly just by myself, I do a lot of thinking and reconnecting with myself during that time. I am sure many other runners would agree with those statements. So, to me a “bad run” means any of the following things:

• Pain- I hardly ever get pain in my legs or back when I run like other runners (unless my body it telling me it is time for new running shoes), but I do get pain in my lungs- which is caused my the damage I did in my 11 years of smoking (you can read more about that here if you are interested).  When I have a lot of pain during a run (lung wise, tummy aches, soreness), I spend my thoughts and energy fighting through the run rather than enjoying it.
• Extreme Fatigue- I mean running is tiring, it is supposed to be , you are working your body and cardio system pretty hard. But there are some runs when  I feel so tired that I cannot even think of anything else but the exhaustion and feel like my legs are lead.
• Dehydration- This is a biggy for me. When I run super dehydrated, I feel fain and spacey. It is actually one of scariest feelings I have ever felt. I ran a race once so dehydrated, I didn’t think I would make it! (you can read more about that here).

So, I would say those are the three main causes of a “bad run” for me. Today was a “Pain” run that actually had more to so with my tummy and my lungs. I guess all in all, a “bad run” for me is when I don’t enjoy it, it feels like a chore rather than something I enjoy doing.

After my run, I hopped in the shower and got dressed while sipping on a Green Monster to refuel!

I blended together:

• 1 frozen banana
• Bee Pollen
• 2 big handfuls of spinach
• Fat Free Organic Milk
• PB2
• Chocolate PB2
• Chocolate Green Superfood
• ice

When I went to do my makeup, I totally had a green mustache that I needed to wash off! Attractive!

Today I am sporting a very professional (aka really boring) look:

Oh well, this time last year, I couldn’t even button that shirt!

Hot Pink Collared Shirt (Jacob), Black Wide Leg Trousers (Express), Black Pointed Slingbacks (Marshalls).

Well, I got to get some work done here….focus, focus!!

See you guys at lunch!

PS You guys have until the 15th of this month to Vote for me for the Wellsphere People’s HealthBlogger Awards 2009! Click here to Vote!!!

If you love this blog, I would love your vote!!!

Oh and another ps- look what Wicked Bride sent me yesterday!

That is the photobooth strip from her wedding of Adam and I.

From left to right you have:

• Normal Adam and Ali
• Ghetto Adam and Ali
• Huggy Adam and Ali
• Lovey Adam and Ali
• Silly Adam and Ali
• Approving Adam and Ali (that our stamp of approval of Erica and Mike’s Union ) 
  

Tags: Smoothies