September in Review

WOW! Really?!  September is over!  Yikes, time has really been flying these last few months!  Here is a little Wealth is Health September recap :)

I'm CSCS Certified (Part 1, Part 2)
Football Season Returns
Favorite September recipes: Enchiladas and Chicken Pot Pie
Modeling Debut (PS still waiting for more pictures)
My Big 2-5


Around 9 this morning I headed out for a 10 mile run, longest of my half marathon training to date, however, 10 turned into 9 when my knee started hurting a little and my legs started stiffening up.  Right around the 6.5 mile mark my knee started hurting just a hair, so I took a couple walk breaks from mile 6.5 to the end (you can tell by my splits).  I'm not a huge fan of taking walking breaks during my runs, but if I need them I need them.  Today I maybe took one or two that I didn't actually need, but I am pretty good about making my breaks very short, aka 1 block tops.  I tried to run in places around town where I knew I would run into hills to help train myself for the hilly half coming up in a couple weeks.

I have cut most of my long runs by a mile of two compared to what is on my training plan, but I'm not too worried about that because for my first marathon my longest run before the race was only 8 miles and I only did that once.  I have run a lot more longer runs during this training plan compared to last time I trained.

GARMIN STATS

Distance: 9.30 miles

Total Time: 1:29:56

Calories: 1169

Before I ran out the door today I threw on both my Garmin and my Nike+ so that I could compare the two. Turns out my Garmin is a little on the faster side and my Nike+ is a little on the slower side. To be honest, not sure which one was closer to the real deal, I ran a lot on the trails and those don't show up very well on the mapmyrun.com.

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Every year this week is a big week for my family...

Sept. 29 --> My birthday

Sept. 30 --> My brother's birthday

Oct. 1 --> Parents' anniversary

Oct. 2 --> Uncle's birthday (he passed away about five years ago, but it added to the craziness)

Happy anniversary Mom & Dad!

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Off to enjoy an exciting weekend in Wisconsin sports.... Brewers tournament game (win!), Badgers vs. Nebraska, and Packers vs. Denver

Good Luck Charms

Happy Memorial Day weekend!  Jed and I passed a vehicle pulling this boat, which seemed to sum of the weekend for most people.  Well, this and remembering and honoring all of the great things that men and women in the armed forces do for us and our freedom everyday!

We did not have a boat out this weekend, rather we spent a solid 8 hours in the car with each other, if we didn't kill each other then I think it's safe to say we really are meant for each other :)

Anyway the reason we spent so much time in the car this weekend was because we were going to...

Since I don't want to make this post incredibly long and bore you to death I am just going to share a few pictures from our weekend in Milwaukee at the games!

Inside and outside of Miller Park.

 

In case you forgot what I look like ;)  Oh and meet my new friends!

Of course I couldn't turn down a Bloody Mary and a a picture with Ryan Braun!

And the best part about the whole trip was I got to spend it with this guy!  

<3 him!
P.S. I think we're good luck charms!  They won both games :)
What did you do this weekend?
What kind of "lucky charms" do you or did you have?I used to collect trolls and rabbits feet when I was younger!

Three Cheers for a Long Weekend!

It's only noon and my day has been crazy already!  Aren't Fridays supposed to be days you unwind and relax on?  Anyway here's what it's looked like thus far...

• 4 mile run (37 mins) 
• BL Yoga (30 mins)
• Breakfast - I did not have breakfast food this morning, in fact I had lunch food.  Roasted red pepper hummus wrap with all the fixins' 
• Read Blogs
• Dishes
• Changed Luther's water 
• Stopped at the library 

       It just so happened that two books I had on hold showed up today, so I stopped over to pick them up!

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• Packed my bag for the weekend 
• Hunted for my lost ring :(  Not joke I was out looking for it every I had been yesterday for an hour and it's still missing... sad face. 
• Called Victoria's Secret - unhappy customer because they gave me a late fee even though I never got my statement
• Ate lunch

Even though I have a long and stressful day today, I'm looking forward to relaxing the rest of the weekend.  Tomorrow my lovely boyfriend and I will be heading to Milwaukee to watch two Brewer's baseball games over the weekend!  They've been on a winning streak at home, so lets hope they can keep that going.  This will only be my second time going to a Brewer's game, I was raised as more of a Twins fan since I am originally from MN.  

This is us last time, let's hope I don't have to whip out my rally cap again :)

Other than the Brewer's game I will be playing the weekend by ear... ahh I like the sound of that!  What will you be doing over Memorial Day weekend?