TGIF!

Hey everyone! Happy Friday (for me anyway!). Brent and I are taking tomorrow OFF from work and vegging out at home. Hallelujah!!!

Ok, I hate spam commenters. You have no idea the immense feeling of joy I get when I have a comment. I love comments, even if they're 'hey, you ramble so shut up already'. Anything shows you care. I usually get 12-15 hits per day, some from other runners who have me linked, some from the Running Blog site, and some from my friends. Yesterday, as a result of NIT I got 69 hits. Whoa! Then, blogspot gave me a ton of hits. I don't understand how it works, but for some reason every once in a while I get a lot of hits from people who hit the 'view the next blog' thing up at the top. And that my friends, is where the SPAM came from. I don't want to turn off anonymous commenters completely, but I guess I'll have to if it keeps up. Any suggestions???

So, on to exercise. I hate tapering, I really, really do. I'm all about burning as many calories as possible so it's hard for me to save something for this weekend's races. Tonight we went over to the corporate gym to workout. I did the elliptical for a while, then did some weights. I really wasn't feeling the weights because all I really wanted to do was RUN! Brent had gone downstairs to play some solo racquetball so I ventured down to watch and ended up knocking the ball around with him. I am such a natural. Not really, but it was fun. I only got hit by the ball twice and I think I only squealed and covered my head three or four times. I used to play tennis after school every day in high school with one of my friends (only to pick up guys) so it reminded me of those long ago days when I was younger and perkier in all the right places. It was fun, and I think Brent was proud of me. He knows how freaked out my obsessive compulsive self can be in a small, loud room with a whizzing ball flying around.

Ok, now some more important stuff. Rock Star INXS. FINALLY Jessica got the boot last night. I'm for Mig now, I think he's great and would be perfect for the band. We also saw a new show on Bravo called Battle of the Network Reality Stars, or something like that. It was pretty good. It's based on some show from the 70's where the network stars competed against each other in various challenges. It's got all the classic reality people, Richard and Susan from Survivor, Heidi from Apprentice, the midget from Amazing Race, and a bunch of other people you'll recognize but had completely forgotten about. What's better than seeing all these has beens knock each other around with big foam sticks? Running, but that's about it.

Ok, that's all for today! Wish me luck in tomorrow's race! Good luck to everyone racing and working on their long training runs this weekend.

Rae

Exercise:
1 mile am walk with Pippin, 30 minutes elliptical trainer, 15 minutes weights, 15 minutes racquetball, 20 minutes yoga/pilates focusing on the back