Running and then blogging about it
Running 7

Vintage Kathy Griffin

By Colleen @colleenalicia · On January 29, 2012

Great news!  I once again accomplished a week of 30 miles!  That makes two out of four weeks so far this year.  Not too bad, but since my goal is to average 30 miles, I still have a lot of work to put in before I can consider myself on track.

What I learned this week, is that while I may be in shape to run 30 miles a week, I’m not really in shape to do 26 miles in three days.  As of Thursday this week, I had only done 4 miles, so 26 miles is what I was facing through Saturday.  I did a hard 7 on Thursday, and then 13 on Leif Erickson on Friday.  I set off for this long run at around 2:30PM, and was extremely proud of myself for remembering to bring water and a GU pack for the run.  So prepared!  Except I wasn’t, because I only ate a little cereal, a bite of mashed potatoes, and a few jelly beans, during that day, before my long run.  My 100 calorie GU pack helped a little, but at mile 11 I felt completely depleted.  Oops.  At least I remembered to take Pascal with me also.  Here’s a picture of him at mile 5.

The most exciting part of this run was that I noticed that the 5 1/4 and the 5 1/2 mile posts had been repainted and now show the correct mileage.  They used to be switched.  They probably fixed this a while ago, but it’s been a long time sine I ran more than ten miles on Leif.

When I got home, I opened up my new Runner’s World magazine, and saw this ad:

I might be wrong, but I think this ad is stupid.  What I understand, is that Lululemon is trying to show you that they sell running clothes.  But they don’t show any of their running gear in the picture.  I also know for a fact that they sell yoga clothes, but here they’re pretending they don’t even know what yoga is.  Why would I want to go to a store that doesn’t even know what yoga is, when they primarily sell things to use while you do yoga?  I know that’s an overly literal way to look at the ad, but I still think it’s dumb.  I would hope that they would take one of their hundred dollar bills they get every single time they sell a single pair of pants, and use it to hire someone better at marketing.

By Saturday morning I had finally calmed down about how stupid that ad is, and tried to mentally prepare myself for the remaining 6 miles of my 30 mile week.  I went to the Nike Campus with my running buddy, and as soon as I started running, I knew it was going to be difficult.  And it was – I had to walk for a minute or two every mile, but I made it!

I found this silly creature near a pond on campus, and he helped me have a lot more fun when I ran.  I tried to call it a beaver, but then was told that it’s definitely not a beaver.  I tried to look up what kind of animals are on the Nike campus, and just got a bunch of results for animal rights protests against Nike.  Does anyone know what this is?  Besides super cute?

When I got tired of running around the trails, I went over to run on the track.  Their track is a good happy-medium between track and trail, since it has a bunch of trees in the middle.  I didn’t find any cute creatures here though, unless you count the guy power-washing the track.

Miles run in 2012: 99
Average miles/week in 2012: 24.75

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Colleen

I must confess, I started running at a very early age. Sadly, my runs were unblogumented until around age 23, so you'll have to use your imagination for all the runs I went on before that. Running has always been my go-to sport, but sadly, I spend a good amount of my time with chronic injuries. I have learned to entertain myself athletically with other pursuits such as kettlebell, yoga, and bikini competitions, when I can't run. In addition to my unique talent for working out and then blogging about it, I am an amateur puppy stylist and photographer, television enthusiast, and I'm usually CPR/AED certified, but I would still prefer if you didn't pass out when we're together.

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7 Comments

  • Kathayoon says: January 29, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    it’s a nutria!

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  • colleen says: January 29, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    what? lauren always said nutrias were super-gross but that critter looks not super-gross to me!

    Reply
  • Quinn says: January 29, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    woah where is that track?

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    • Quinn says: January 29, 2012 at 9:17 pm

      i guess part of nike campus…which reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT50eLLxPco

      Reply
    • colleen says: January 29, 2012 at 9:26 pm

      are you spamming me???

      Reply
  • colleen says: January 29, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    on the nike campus!

    Reply
  • Chris says: January 29, 2012 at 10:41 pm

    dammit kathayoon beat me. i wanted to teach you about animals first!

    Reply
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