The race always hurts. Expect it to hurt. You don’t train so that it doesn’t hurt. You train so you can tolerate it.
Mark Rowland, Lauren Fleshman’s coach. (via runslikeapenguin)
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What I Wore: outfit and a little duck face for your Wednesday night.
Sweater: J.Crew
Jeans: Target
Photo of the Day: somebody got a haircut today. Oh, wait, that would be me. Cut by Addison at Flux Salon in Deep Deuce.
What I Loved from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2013
With little commentary and luscious pictures, here’s some of my favorite items from this fall’s runway shows.
J. Crew
Tory Burch
J. Mendel
All photos from the fashion week website.
What I Ate: skinny chicken and gnocchi soup from the Skinny Fork! (Credit at bottom of post, you should definitely check it out!) I subbed frozen organic gnocchi for the pumpkin gnocchi in the recipe and used far less half and half than the recipe called for. Still amazingly filling and delicious.
http://www.theskinnyfork.com/blog/skinny-chicken-pumpkin-gnocchi-soup
Photo of the Day: a collector’s button I got at the State Fair of Texas! I’ve been going to this fair since before I can remember. The school district would give us free tickets and a day off of school to go! Look for a post later with some sweet food pictures.
What I Wore: Coffee and a Client Meeting
You can see me cutely modeling this outfit at a client meeting in the picture above! This outfit was also totally appropriate for hitting up Starbucks with friends.
Cardigan: J. Crew via Goodwill
Top: Banana Republic via Goodwill
Skirt: J. Crew
Bag: BCBGeneration
Photo of the Day: shoes from yesterday’s outfit. A gift from Anthro. You’ll see the full outfit in a What I Wore post tomorrow!
Bust, part 2
Tips and what I learned from my horrible, truly epic busted run today:
- You should probably eat before you run.
- Also, drinking water is important. Do that occasionally.
- Don’t try and cry while you’re still running. You won’t have enough breath.
- When you’ve cooled down a bit, then call your mom and cry. Moms are good at listening to people sob incoherently on the phone.
- I’m really, really thankful and lucky that the worst thing that will happen to me today is that I can’t finish a run. Holy perspective, Batman!
- Friends are really good at cheering you up when you’re in the deep dark cave of failure, be that running failure or just general all-around epic failure.
- Go read some running blogs when you’re sad. While you might think it would make you feel worse, I promise that someone is there struggling like you are. It felt good to see that I wasn’t the only one who got all torn up about not completing a training run.
- Always attempt a long run with more free time ahead of you so that you have time to try, try again. Hopefully in cooler weather with more hydration.
Remember when I busted last time?
http://thecuppycakes.tumblr.com/post/41847006588/bust
Maybe I’m just jinxed. I messed up my 7 miler last training cycle, too….