Just a Quick Check In

So today I was born 27 years ago in Olympia, WA.

It has been a glorious day. A 5 AM workout. A McDonald's Diet Coke. Lunch out at Pei Wei.

I booked a trip to Big Sky, MT in January. I got the e-mail invite today. I booked a few hours later. I haven't been skiing in 6 years...this should be interesting.

Dinner out with friends at one of my favorite bars in Nashville. I realized tonight that I haven't been there nearly enough when the bartender and the manager told me they missed me. The bartender sent over a birthday drink for me. A Jack and Diane. Or a JDC. Or commonly known as a Jack and Diet Coke. My roomie got me a cookie cake! The picture can be seen here. I forgot my digi camera at home and I am still trying to figure out my new cell phone. They sang happy birthday to me. Another friend got me tickets to see Little House on the Prarie: THE (mother freaking!) MUSICAL! Staring Melissa Gilbert as Ma. I am beyond excited about this. I think it would be a little too much if I wore my bonnet, no?

In case you didn't click on the picture, I got a hair cut last week. A sizeable chop. And I love it.

When my mom was here in earlier this month, she brought me a bunch of birthday goodies from the Nordstrom Anniversary sale. I don't covet anything as much as I do my new Tory Birch black ballerina flats. THANK YOU mom! I also scored a sweet patent leather wide Betsy Johnson Belt and a cashmere scarf. And a very practical black North Face Fleece. My roomie got me a super sweet sandwich cookie cake set that ROCKS. My first (of hopefully many) cake pans from Williams Sonoma.

Last night I spent the evening at my favorite venue, the Ryman, seeing the Decemberists perform. It was amazing, minus that guy, yes that guy sitting in front of me, who yelled out "FREEBIRD" at the end of every song. Colin even made fun of him and he still didn't shut up.

In other news I haven't weighed myself in a month.

Unitl next time.

The Results: Part Deux

My results:
Let me first start out by saying again I just wanted to finish under 30 and just maybe improve my time. I didn't do any real training and I had had a few off weeks.

I was in the female age group 25-29. There were 57 participants in this group.

I finished 14 out of 57 in my age division.

I finished 225 out of the 493 who wore timing chips.

I finished 72 among all women.

My chip time was 28:14.

My pace was 9:07.

Next 5k is October 10 and I hope to actually train a little for this one...

PS. My scale broke a few weeks ago and I ordered a new one. It was broken too and I sent it back. I am going scale free for reals for a while.

PPS RIP Patrick Swayze. I have loved Dirty Dancing since the second grade. I went and saw the 20th anniversary screening in the movie theater too, for one night only! (Don't judge!) One of my favorite clips is the Chippendales skit with another one of my favorites Chris Farley.

It's Only My Second Time

Tomorrow will be the second time I run an organized 5 K. Not quite sure how I will do in this one. I haven't been working out and exercising as much as I would have liked over the past month or so. So, yeah.

Playlist has been made and ipod will be charged soon. Did I mention there are cookies at the end of this race? This is my kind of race!

Ok, seriously. When did it become ok for me to eat starbursts and a crunch ice cream bar for an afternoon SNACK?

So I think I am going to take a little break from blogging. My 27th birthday is a month from tomorrow and I need to just figure some things out. Nothing ground breaking or anything.

I will still probably update twitter. You can find me @brownsarahk.