Birthday Trip

Saturday Workout Wrap-Up: Evolution Class
Sunday Workout Wrap-Up: 5.5 mile run
Monday Workout Wrap-Up: Evolution Class

What a weekend!

I don't know if its age or what, but I cannot seem to be able to sleep much past 8 on the weekends lately. It's getting old - and I vow to not get out of bed until at least 9 this upcoming Saturday!  This week was like most recent Saturday mornings. Up early - coffee and cereal & watching New Girl and The Mindy Project.  

Zooey might be the only person with bigger eyes than me!

After relaxing a bit I got ready and out the door for another tough Evolution class.  We ran a lot of drills and did some serious arm work Saturday.  I was feeling it!  After class I ran home to a living room devoid of furniture.  I should preface that with the fact that when I left there were 2 strange men trying to move of of the sofas out of the front door.  I should preface THAT with the fact that my roomie/landlord bought a new couch and was ditching the old ones...makes more sense now, right?

I had a quick lunch of my turkey taco leftovers - sitting on the living room floor - classy all the way.  Then, quickly showered and got ready to hit the road!  I hopped into the car and headed up to Philly....well slightly outside of Philly for my friend Carolyn's 30 bday celebration.

We hung out at her and her husband's apartment for a bit. Caught up then headed to the party that her sisters and parents were throwing.

There was tons of yummy apps and even a birthday girl signature drink.  It was a local rhubarb spirit mixed with tonic water and strawberries - very unique & yummy! The party was lots of fun - even included trivia :)  Hats off to Carolyn for handling entering a new decade a lot more calmly than I plan to be. 

The bottle was a little tricky to open

The next morning I headed out pretty early.  Carolyn was off to run 30k for her birthday with one of her sisters who is training for Boston.  I decided to hit up a Ross near her house for fun before heading home.  They opened at 9:30am - I arrived at about 9:35.  I ended up spending a long time in there checking everything out.  It's nice to do a little window shopping alone sometimes.  You get to take your time and this time that also meant trying on a million things.  I took a ton of clothes into the dressing room - mostly for fun and in sizes that I haven't worn in a million years.  It was fun and exciting each time I tried on something new and it fit and looked good!  I somehow got serious and only walked out with a new jean skirt, some flavored coffee and a couple running tops.  Most of the other things I tried on were sun dresses - and since it SNOWED today I guess it was good I left them behind since I won't be wearing sundresses any time soon.

After what ended up being almost 3 hours of shopping at Ross and looking in a few other stores I hit the road back to Baltimore getting home around 3.  When I walked in the door, the stairs were about halfway done being stained - I was greeting with "Hi! Hope you don't plan on going upstairs for a while!"  OK. Now what to do - I couldn't unpack or crawl into bed to watch DVR shows...alright, I have running clothes on - better hit the bricks.  I took a nice casual 5.5 mile run around the neighborhood and even ventured into a few blocks I've never been too (aka the hood)

Tomorrow morning I'm starting a 5 day nutrition plan called Beach Babe - from Tone It Up blog. I did this a few times over last summer before a beach trip and felt really good.  It's got lots of yummy recipes and if focused a lot around fruit.  The only tricky parts are making sure to fit in the 2 workouts each day  - and then starting the day with a drink they call Bomshell Spell  that is made from pineapple juice, lime, honey and apple cider vinegar.  My first dose is made and waiting for me in the fridge for the morning...between that and the tabata workout I have lined up...I'll definitely be awake!