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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

Quick, name one thing you're NOT thankful for but you SHOULD be!
Me? I never think about how amazingly blessed we are to have such good health, but I should. I can't believe I complain about acne and fat thighs when I have only had to take an antibiotic twice in my life.*  My husband's ancient, like antique, and he's in brand-spanking-new condition. I need to be more thankful for our consistently good health!
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In an effort to keep that good health, we ran the local 5-mile Thanksgiving race this morning. When we arrived I realized we'd never registered for this race. I can't believe I forgot! But we've run so many races this fall I thought I had. All those check to the New Orleans Track Club are blurring together in my mind.We registered with the no-Tshirt option.
It was hot and humid today, upper 70's at the start and moist. It was 80's at the finish and the wet weather brought a brisk head wind. Not very good running weather, and I wore my Karhus, which have zero tread and would make great ice skates. I wanted to go slow today since I have a marathon on Saturday, but I started too fast - first mile under 7 minutes - so I had to slow down (not that I could have kept that pace up anyway). I finished in 37:40 but here's the big news - David ran 41:55! Super fast for him!
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The Saints game almost gave me a heart attack and made me quite hoarse. Hartley is returning slowly to my good graces.
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I want to buy these jeans but I'm afraid that, like all GAP denim, they'll bag out after a few hours of wearing. I don't like saggy-butt. Has anyone had any experience with this style? If I spend this much on jeans they better be awesome (my other jeans are $12 Forever21 and $9 Ross styles...).
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I talked little bro' Abe into running the half marathon this weekend while I run the full, but today he told me he might run the full. I love how he can just casually decide to run a marathon two days in advance.
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I hope you all had a stupendous Thanksgiving!!! I'm going to go roll onto the couch and vegetate now!

* This excludes the antibiotics prescribed for dental work that I never take. Don't tell my dentist.

5 comments:

  1. Congrats on a fabulous race!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!! I personally love Lucky Jeans, they can sometimes be found at Marshall's for $30.

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  2. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! And kudos to you for running a race (AND a marathon tomorrow)!

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  3. Sounds like a great day. Love that your brother is switching it up to the full--awesome!

    I need new jeans too, so when you figure it out, let me know!

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  4. Hmm...I tried those on and think that of the gap skinny jeans, those have the least stretch, if that helps. I find that the Gap jeans I currently have (the always skinny) do stretch out, but I just wash them more frequently to shrink them back to size.

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  5. Great Thanksgiving...I can't believe you are running another marathon and even talked your brother into it!

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