F*ck yeah Friday!

Sometimes I plan on doing a Things I Love Thursday, but then I forget. And F*ck yeah Friday has a much nicer ring to it, yes?

Things that have been making me smile this week: 

• The Butterfly Effect, my favourite band, are doing their final tour before the lead singer departs. Tonight is gig #1 (we're going to 2). Bring.It.On
• Going to the physio FINALLY for me knee. I have lots of IT band and other exercises to do and have to stay off it for a week, but this is progress
• Getting up to date with How I Met Your Mother and Game of Thrones (not running means I have a heap of time!). Joffery...oh dear. 

• Launching a new project at work. It will be awesome.
• Home made baked potatoes with swanky cheese, great vegies, and a bit of salsa. Heaven on a fork. 
• This picture right here. They told me I could be anything.

Have a great weekend! 

Running update

I've had some good news and some bad news with running lately. I saw a running coach who suggested that I ease off running a bit and then build back up. I kind of did that, but I think I went too hard this week. I ran Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Right after the Wednesday run my knee was sore. It stayed sore the next day too - not just a 'damn, my knee is a bit sore which means everytime I move it I'm doing damage sore', but actually sore. Although yesterday it didn't hurt at all.

Go figure. The marathon is definitely out of the picture, and possibly the half is, too.

In better news, one of my friends has just started running and she did her first attempt at a 5km today. I'm so proud of her! If anyone is going to keep at it and work hard, it's her.

Teehee

via Little White Lion

Things I love Thursday

Well, it's been a while since I've showed some gratitude on the internet! Let's change that hey?

Things that are awesome:

• Autumn in Melbourne. We missed the best of Autumn, but it is still insanely beautiful
• Sticking to my training plans (both running and strength)
• Eating relatively well and drinking relatively little (moderation people!)
• Realising that work will be throwing some massive challenges at me and changing my mindset to make sure I rock them!
• My new husband(!). Still a novelty :) 
• Getting wedding photos from the photographer
• Timeline by Michael Crichton. It's making my tram ride to work a joy

Not my pic, but very similar to the colours atm

Bloody tree hugging hippies ;)

What's made you smile lately?

Running in the rain

In keeping with the training plan, I thought I would go for a run at lunch time today instead of tonight because I'm going to a seminar on running motivation and achieving your goals etc.

However, it's raining, cold and I was very close to cancelling. Why not attend the motivational thing and then start putting it into practice?? I have internetting to be doing!

Luckily tossing two coins and being guilted by my colleague convinced me to go for a run. And it was good. A character building 7kms sharing smug looks with the other runners that were out there. 

Not so good? Realising the hard way that there is no hot water in the showers at work any more. Boo. 

Marathon Training Day 1

After spending pretty much every waking second with another person (i.e. my husband on our honeymoon) over the last month, having Saturday night to myself while he went to work was absolute bliss. How did I spend my treasured Saturday night?

Writing up a training plan!

I signed up for the Run Melbourne half marathon, where I did my first half last year. As I'm planning on using it as a training ground for the Melbourne Marathon on October 14, I thought I would write up a training plan.

Training for May

The plan is based on the training plan on the Run Melbourne website. I'm not sure if this is the best one as it says to run for time (eg 40 mins) rather than distance. I don't know if this will be better or worse, so I'm doing some research.

I ended up buying a 2012 diary for 50 cents (woot!) so I can easily write how I felt, what I did, etc. That way if I injure myself or anything like that I'll be able to track it. And, you know, because Runner's World said to have a training diary.

Anyway, since my training didn't start until this week, I went for a run yesterday morning to help gauge my fitness (or lack thereof). I was quietly hoping that training would start with a bang. Unfortunately, it started with a whimper and shuffle.

A difficult 6kms. I even walked. But that will make it MUCH more special at the end!

Adventures of a bad blogger!

Wow, I haven't blogged for quite a while. It has been a crazy time, involving Tough Bloke Challenge, my wedding, and now my honeymoon! A good blogger would be updating constantly, showing pics (even teasers) of what they've been up to, but no. Not me.

I'm currently sitting in a hotel room in Luang Prabang, Laos. My husband(!) is sick and it's a little too hot outside to venture out so now is the perfect opportunity to blog, yes?

Here is a taste of what has been happening in the past month or so:

Tough Bloke Challenge

Wedding!

Cocktails on the beach at our resort in thailand. Cocktails were to become a normal occurrence!

Noodles from a roadside vendor for breakfast in Bangkok

Monks in the Lao New Year (Pii Mai Laos) parade in Luang Prabang

Hot, hard and unhappy mountain bike ride in Laos

Eating. Lots and lots of eating. 

What a trip. And we still have another week! I've loved it, but I am looking forward to coming home. I haven't gone for a run since the second day of the trip (barefoot morning run along the beach - it's a hard life hey?), and I miss it. I didn't bring running shoes, and it's too hot most of the time to run. So I am very much looking forward to training properly. 

But for now... enjoying my honeymoon comes first :)