fitness & fro-yo: Garmin Forerunner

It's a rainy Monday here in Austin, which helped prompt my slow morning. I woke up fairly early, but instead of reaching for a textbook or school assignment as I usually would, I grabbed my Kindle and started reading a book for pleasure. I kept at that for a while before finally switching gears and reading summaries of Shakespeare's Othello. Don't worry, I have read the actual play, but I am just brushing up on parts of it! Anyway, around 9:30am, I decided that it was time to go for a run. Since I am now running in the Austin Half Marathon on Sunday, I need to get in at least a couple of good runs this week. Well, as luck would have it, I got in my car, put the key in the ignition, and was met with a nice clicking noise. I immediately called my dad, who told me to call up AAA and have them take a look at what was probably a dead battery. It's funny because I could have just called AAA in the first place, but I felt like my dad should be the first person I call. I wonder at what age that stops happening!

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AAA was awesome - they were prompt in getting to me, they discovered the problem - apparently my 2005 car still had the original battery - and replaced the battery in no time at all. What rockstars!

I came back inside because it was sprinkling a bit and did a bit more reading before powering up my new Garmin Foreruner - thanks Mom and Dad for taking the hint - and heading over to Mueller Park for my Monday run. Well, continuing with my good luck today, it started sprinkling right as I was pulling up to the park. I sat in my car for a few minutes contemplating my next move, and I ended up deciding to just suck it up and run, because the marathon on Sunday isn't going to stop bad weather from rolling in. After about a mile and a half, the rain really started picking it, so I was going to call it quits after just two miles, but the rain quickly let up and I was able to run a total of 5.61 miles in just over 48 minutes. That was an 8:38 min/mile pace, which is already faster than my pace this past Saturday. Success!

I'm already obsessed

Lunch

I'm sure you're all surprised to hear that my lunch was a dairy-free pizza. It's truly shocking, isn't it? Sarah so kindly bought me some more of my flatbreads so that I could resume making and eating what has probably turned into my favorite meal. Speaking of recipes, I had a request for a recipes tab, which I think is an awesome idea. I keep saying I will work on making updates and additions to my blog, but I promise that will happen over my spring break, which is just four short weeks away. Not that I'm counting down or anything.