Running Update!!

Last Sunday I had my race! My goodness it was awesome! At least during it, it was awesome. After is a WHOLE nother story. Is "nother" a word? It really should be considering thats exactly what it sounds like when I say it. Plus, "whole another" just sounds wrong.

Anyways! The reason why I said it was horrible after my race is because for some reason I get SO sick after my races. I think it's because I push myself so hard that I even forget to breathe when im running. Yeah, probs not a good idea. I also heard that when you're running at such a high intensity, your blood goes to all the working muscles, aka my legs, and leaves the GI tract. Once im done running, apparently all of that blood rushes back to my GI tract and well, then we have some problems. These problems lasted from a 1/2 hour after my run (9:30 am) until 6 pm. Every 10 minutes. I was so weak afterwards, only drank gatorade, had chills, and ate toast. All day. Yes this is gross but i'm trying to find solutions to this!! Any runners out there want to share their input? I'm thinking my issue may be me consuming a 5-hour energy (the new pink lemonade one, ya know, for breast cancer month) a 1/2 hour before hand. It really made my heart pound like it was going to pop out of my chest. Not to mention I also had a little coffee. Yes, both combined IS on the route to a heart attack, I know. I did have a little food, some trail mix, but I also don't want to over do it with food before because you never know what's going to happen while you're running lol.

Soooo the results of the race?! I GOT FIRST!! For my age group, at least. I got a cute wine glass for winning my age group (20-25 yr olds). I think there were around 200-250 women in my age group? So, not too shabby! Not to be a cocky carol (yep, made that up), but I usually get 1st, 2nd, or 3rd for my age group in every race. This was my best 15k time of 1:06:19. My old PR was 1:06:40. I know it was only 21 seconds of a difference but it makes a huge difference in races. I also got a little lost during the race because towards the end, there wasn't anyone visible in front or behind me so i had to find the race route on my own. It really wasn't a very organized race since there were only a few arrows telling you where to turn and whatnot, therefore I went off track for about 20 seconds in the wrong direction. Once I realized the race was probably not supposed to lead me to an interstate, I stopped and said hm, maybe I should go the other way? Glad I did.

After my draining Sunday morning, I spent all day in bed watching movies. I NEVER do this so it was quite relaxing (when I wasn't running back and forth to the toilet. lol. ew). I watched knocked up (for the 504th time), Step Brothers and Eat Pray Love. My gosh is the latter an AMAZING movie! So good for those who feel like they're lost and unsure of themselves. It's so inspirational and I love Julia Roberts! She has such a huge smile. So big that its kinda awkward.

I just threw my gum across my office to try to make it in the garbage and it stuck to the wall. Ha, can't use the old backboard strategy with gum, I guess.

Right now i'm sitting in my office at work finishing up a project while listening to Tay Swift. Her new CD came out today!!!!!!! I love her! I think it's cause I feel like I can sing just as good as her. Plus, many of her songs are so relatable. Just not the stupid "never ever ever ever ever ever ever getting back together" song. Nope, that's just annoying.. we get it. EVER!


Time to start working on my internship hours. Since I have already finished my food service hours and nutrition education hours (about 400 hrs), I'm currently looking for hospitals and nursing homes who will be my preceptors and teach me the necessary objectives I need to learn for my RD exam. It stinks cause I need to call all of the hospitals and nursing homes around me that will take me (P.S if anybody has good contacts with hospitals, nursing homes, diabetes centers, cancer centers, or outpatient centers PLEASE let me know if you can help me out!!). Then I need to make sure they get in contact with my internship director at FSU and they need to sign contracts and approvals to ensure it's alright for me to work with them. TEDIOUS!! It will all be worth it in the end! Registed Dietitian here I come!


I think that's enough venting for the day :)

Peace.

Second of allll....

Wow..just looked back on my first post and i noticed the views on it.. 209?! Holy moly thanks guys! Now i feel like i have to write really good. It's actually making me kind of nervous right now so i'm going to forget i even mentioned that. keajgaiegiewKJHGlag ..k.

I have just made my very own blogging room. I'm in the office of my house and i shut the doors cause the TV is on way too loud in the living room and i can't hear myself think (benefits of living at home). Thats how I get when I write in my diary too. However, that's usually only when i'm really mad or just sad. This blog will only contain happy thoughts though cause no one wants to have pitty parties.. Those aren't fun and i hear enough of them errday anyway.

This week at work has been SO busy! at least i get to dress up everyday. Thats my favorite part! I love that slacks are big on your legs yet they look SO GREAT. The last time i remember it being okay to wear big pants was when we wore Jyncos in elementary school. OMG.. whyyy? Was that a dream or did we really do that? Or was that just a thing at Calusa Elementary cause we were in the hood?   :/

So back to work! Summer was the most difficult time at work cause i was just starting out, didn't have my work-besties yet, and i was nervous that i wasn't performing perfectly 24/7. So draining! I was also helping my boss make ALL the new breakfast/lunch menus for the 92 schools, but now that i am actually teaching nutrition ed to the whole area, i'm getting out of the office a lot more.. enjoying not staring at a computer for 9 hours/day.... 5 days/a freakin week! The down side to this? Now i don't have all the time in the world to send out my 'Daily Funnies' (aka emails i send everyday to a select few special friends which contain the funniest Pinterest pins and E-Cards.. I seriously sit at my desk and cry laughing while my co-workers just stare. Not even worried about it) (Oh and sorry if you weren't in the special friend list.. gimme your email!!). I shouldn't be complaining about sitting all day though, it's the first time i've made so much money! Who ever thought that's what a bachelors degree can do!? Is that why I stressed, didn't sleep, and cried so much at FSU? Ahhh okay. I get it. Shout-out to my babygirl Morgan, btw... we killed ourselves with schoolwork everyday! Yayyyy grads!

I'm also saving mula like a mad woman! For what? i don't have a clue. My own place soon? eh. I dont really want to live alone.. and at this point in our lives NO ONE really knows what they're doing or where they will be so there goes the roommate plan. I guess i'm content with living at home sweet home where i don't pay bills, have free food, and get bombarded with love by daddio and my sister, Brittany.. aka my BFF (WHOO WHOOOO!). Here she is on the right.. Love her.

Anyways.. I have a race this Sunday! It's called the "Pretty in Pink 15k". Did I sign up for it cause it's called Pretty In Pink? Yep. Am I gonna dominate all those silly women who say this is "just a race" and are "doing it as an accomplishment"? Yep. It's not just a race, BIA. What does that even mean? 

Some people don't understand why I run so much or how for that matter. Honestly, I feel like I can conquer anything while i'm running.. or even after. It's weird to say but  during my races I get goosebumps and feel like a machine. Like a robot. And when i pour water on my face at the water stops and listen to my intense electro/house/dubstep playlists... i just... i don't know.. feel invincible! It's a wonderful feeling and i do wish that other people find that satisfaction with something else in their life. Just not video games. Gosh no.

Don't mess with me lady!

So off topic (is that even relevant to say on blogs?), but i still have no idea how to connect with people on here. If anyone reading this wants to share, gimme a heads up pwease.

That's all I got for ya!! Naturally it's time to sleep cause ya know.. it's 9:45 pm and I wake up at 5 am. 

Deuces.  :D

First post of many!

Sooo first post!! I don't know if it's normal just HOW excited I am to write all the time on this. I guess we should start with why i'm even creating this blog. Weeelp, basically I absolutely love looking back and reading my diaries from years past (passed?) and seeing how much i've grown or even just the fact that i felt a specific way about specific things at some point in my life. Its crazy how you forget things or feelings that were SO important to you at one point and meaningless the next! So thats the first reason why i wanted to create this, but secondly, i want to reach out/make new friends! I want to learn more about my interests from other people's prospectives. What are my interests you ask? Oh don't mind if I do! 

(Gosh i'm not used to typing so much and not having something "autocorrect" my every mess up so this is going to take some time getting used to.)

1. I'm currently sitting in an elementary P.E office alone while the P.E teachers are out teaching..well, P.E. Why am I here? I'm currently completing an internship to be a Registered Dietitian while working at the district office of Pasco County. Today i'm at one of our elementary schools doing a presentation on the new meal guidelines for the kids and i just had lunch so i guess this is where i go when im waiting to do the next presentation today. The kids are adorb. I love kindergarten best because i feel like i'm Bill Cosby --or whoever that old guy was before Bill-- on Kids Say the Darndest Things. I die.

2. That was a long #1. Anyway, I don't know where my life is going right now nor where I will even be with this crazy long 1200 hour dietetic internship that i'm completing so I cant exactly give y'all an update on what i'm doing with my life cause quite frankly, I'm just going with the flow. "Be like water", what my girlfriend Kelly says.

3. I LOVE RUNNING. Probably my biggest passion. which I will be talking about constantly throughout. Honestly, I was thinking about it today.. as long as i can run in my life, i think i will be happy wherever i am.. mentally or physically.

4. I have 2 tattoos. One on my rib that says "Live the life you love"... which, yes.. i know.. was i a teenage girl who just wanted to say i had a tattoo? Yes. I was. Could i tell you any significance of that tat? Nope. and we will leave it at that. My 2nd tattoo is on my foot and says "miles to go.." Hence the name of my blog. Ta daaaa! This is perfect for me because my feet have so many more miles to run, my  life has so much more to experience, and I have so much more to learn! I'm obsessed. 

5. Well i'm a peanut butter fanatic. I'm trying to wean off.. but it's quite hard. Trail mix too. Ugh. Don't make me hungry.

6. Speaking of hungry, i LOVE baking. I can whip up anything usually but lately i haven't had time due to work. Usually it's Sundays. I also eat all the batter so that's just swell. It's okay though i always know it's going to happen when i pull up these food porn Pinterest recipes.

7. I love meeting people and having new experiences. For instance, i just became bestfriends with these PE teachers today and i only knew them for 20 minutes. Put me in a setting and i will adapt. I'm obvi a very social person.

8. I prefer witty people.

9. I'm running out of time because I have this silly presentation to conduct but hopefully this was a sufficient first post. Who even knows who is reading this? Probably the only other blogger i know, Meaghan...It's fine, not even worried about it. Hey Meg :D!