desk, race,birthday, and PICTURES

These are pictures of the really awesome desk my dad built for me. It's perfect in my room!





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I went home again this weekend to run in the Asheville Citizen-Times Half-Marathon. It was AWESOME. I felt great and enjoyed every minute of miles 1-12. Mile 13 was not so enjoyable, but I loved the race and I'm so glad I did it. I would definitely like to do more in the future and as of Monday I have started on a full marathon training plan that has me ready to run a marathon in December. I'm not sure if I will be able to stick to it with student teaching. I would have the time, but I won't be able to run before school (4am=insanely too early) and soon it will start getting dark around 5:30pm...so we shall see. I rested Sunday, ran 5 miles yesterday, and today I ran 3 miles and did some sprint work. My legs did feel pretty tired today. This evening before Destino, I went and swam for 45 minutes. If felt good to give my arms a little work out.



















I was having problems with blisters on my feet. I attributed it to increasing my weekly running (which is adding to the problem) but I got new shoes on Saturday and I LOVE them. They don't rub where my old shoes rubbed. The lady at the Jus' Running store where I buy my shoes thinks I was running in a shoe that was a size too small. (So, I'm guessing my race time would be like 15 minutes less with my new shoes...haha...just kidding!) I also bought some running socks (basically non-cotton) and that has helped reduce friction which causes blisters.

(This paragraph was more for my mom and grandmothers who love me and were concerend about my feet.)

While home I also got to celebrate a friend's birthday. We had a nice celebration for Rico (who also ran in the race with me) and I made him a homemade white chocolate cake with white chocolate iceing.