Morning sunshine

So like I said, I've been working crazy hours lately... but even with less then 6 hours of sleep under my belt (for how many nights now??), I still managed to wake up before 6am today and get a 7 mile trail run in. AND IT WAS WORTH IT! I've been fighting off a sore throat and swollen glands for awhile, so the cold air was a little rough on my lungs, but it was beuuutiful. I'll never get sick of the Santa Monica mountains, a sunrise over downtown and the water off in the distance. How do we live here!!???!?!??!?!?!


I definitely took my time for the first couple miles and the entire group sprinted by... but it was all good. An hour and 20 minutes later, the group was down at the bottom of the trail waiting for me so we could all hit up Peets for a some morning joe. Pretty embarrassing to come in last (just that much more training ahead of me!) but sucha a great gesture of teamwork as well.


Maybe the most magical thing of it all... Coach Jimmy gave me a recipe of a little witches brew for my cold. Hot water, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, fresh ginger and grapefruit seed extract. Umm, what? Its so spicy its burning the sore throat away. HA! I'll keep you posted... so far so good and my throat is feeling better then it has in over a week. Maybe Jimmy really does know what he's talking about.....?

I hear you!

Okay okay people... my blog has just been resting and is starting to wake up. HIIIII!! Good morning!! :)

I watched the Oscars last night at a great Oscar party... definitely a night for the books. I was THRILLED that Sean Penn won for Best Actor. I know all you Rourke fans are disappointed, but Penn killed it in Milk. I don't even know Penn's other work (I'm not really a follower as you can tell) but he was sooo convincing. Actually, I take that back - I saw 'I am Sam' and to compare the two... Penn is a crazy amazing actor. So ba bye Rourke!

And how funny was that cut to Angelina during Jennifer Aniston's presentation... loved that! Even the Oscars are perpetuating the rivalry. LOVED THAT! (and FYI: Aniston will always trump that homewrecker...)

On other exciting news... I'm heading to Park City for a little snowboarding trip with my girls this weekend. I've been working stuuupidly long hours and this is the big pot of gold at the end... fresh snow, a massage and girl talk - all weekend - sounds so amazing and refreshing.

Five Glorious Minutes

It was 5 blissful running free minutes... in other words, I ran a half marathon on Sunday in 2 hours and 11 minutes... 5 minutes faster then my last half marathon. HELL YA!!! A huge thanks to Coach Jimmy who completely shook up my training and got my legs (and mind) ready to race. When we started together, I was basically overtrained and my annoying aches and pains wouldn't clear up... now I'm happy to report I'm injury free. YA HOOOOO! It was actually kind of brutal... racing is HARD! But it was a huge accomplishment and I can't wait to see where this running thing is gonna go!!!

Some pictures for show n tell...

Pre run... with my friend Greg... paced me for 9:45s.


During... guess we're happy!

And the best running partner out there... I'm DEFINITELY happy!