Plan for the Week & Beautiful Blogger Award

On the running agenda for this week:
 Mon: Nada maybe yoga
Tues: 6 miles
Wed: 8 miles
Thurs: Nada maybe yoga/ strength
Fri: 8 miles
Sat: 4 miles
Sun: 14 miles
As always, this plan is tentative and subject to changes due to life.

Jac over at Challenged and Running in the Bike Lane (who I like to think of as my AZ running amiga) nominated me for the Beautiful Blogger Award. Thanks Jac! She has been running for a million days in a row now in the Arizona heat. Pretty dang inspiring. 

Here are the rules:
  1. Copy the Beautiful Blogger Award logo and post it in your post
  2. Thank the person who nominated you & link back to their blog
  3. Tell all of us 7 things about yourself
  4. Nominate 7 other bloggers & comment on their page to let them know.
7 Things:
1) I am a big fan of photography and used to do it a lot, now not so much but hope to get back into it (you know pictures that are not a blurry half marathon course). 




2) I love Friend's reruns. My favorite character is Monica.
3) I have seen Orcas in the wild, on a cruise in Alaska
Amazing

4) I have had the same best friend since 7th grade. When you meet someone as fun as she is you don't let them get away. She lives in MN and I am super excited that we are going to be closer when we move up to IL. I see some fun in our future!
5) My other best friend lives in sunny CA with her awesome husband and adorable kids. People used to think we were related because we look similar and act alike. And we would totally make up stories about how we are sisters and people always believed it. 
If you couldn't tell I am the mature one.
6) I swore I never would go back to Brazil after I came home from Recife with the death plague last fall but considering the next summer Olympics are in Rio and D and I kind of want to go.....never say never
Brazil super fun until it tries to kill you
7) I am pretty sure I want to run the San Fransisco marathon for my 30th birthday.

7 Beautiful Bloggers for you to check out:



Comments

  1. jennaAugust 6, 2012 at 7:07 PM

    gorgeous photos!! good luck with your goals this week!! SPAlove

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  2. AnonymousAugust 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM

    I love the picture of the orca. OMG! Amazing!

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