Baltimore Half

Well, Saturday was beautiful weather for a race. High of 66, perfect for a few hours on the course. As usually Baltimore impressed - or freaked me out depending on where I was - with its hills. Per Doc's orders, yes, I am actually listening (mostly, lol), I walked the entire course with the exception of the very beginning and a few downhills that I couldn't contain myself on, finishing in 3:28. I was happy to keep under the 3:30 mark with all that walking and it keeps me hopeful that walking the Myrtle Beach Half next weekend won't be do bad since it is all flat. Mustapha had a great run, finishing in 2:12, not a PR for him, but great considering the hills. Both of us felt pretty beat up on Sunday, which was a complete shock, I think we both said we felt like we did a full instead of a half. I can't remember the last time my legs felt like this, even stranger is the fact that they hurt this much from walking, lol!

I promise to take it easy for the next couple of days, which will be super easy since UPS says that my delivery from Stampin' Up is on my porch. I will run home at lunch to stick it inside since we are supposed to get rain this afternoon and then I will through the fixings for chili in the crockpot so that dinner will be very easy, and this way I can spend more time playing with my new stuff. 

Peace and Pixie Dust!

Which One???

Ok, so along with my recent discoveries of things I NEED to have are these cute little stamps at La-La Land Crafts. I am totally in LOVE with the Luka Pirate and thought that would be my first stamp from them - then they came out with 3 new designs, just in time for the holidays! Choices, choices, choices!!!!!

Make sure you check them out, you can do a fun Blog Hop and see some fabulous ideas and they also have a chance for you to win Blog Candy, YUM!

http://lalalandcrafts.blogspot.com/2010/10/weve-got-more-new-stamps-for-you.html

New Dirction

Well, this has been a crazy year! So far I have gone Goofy in January, (Disney's Goofy Challenge where you run the Donald Half Marathon on Saturday and the Mickey Full Marathon on Sunday), went back for the Princess Half Marathon in March. April and May I challenged myself with 5 Halfs in 4 weeks (yep you read that right, one weekend had 2 halfs). September I completed the Coast 2 Coast Challenge by running the Disney Land Half Marathon and I also did the Philly Rock & Roll Half in the middle of the month. This weekend I will complete the Maryland Double by walking the Baltimore Half and next weekend I will be walking the Myrtle Beach Half. That's right, walking. My doc has finally put the brakes on my running activities until they find out whats wrong with me. HAHA, I know you are offering all sorts of suggestions but in this case it's the 15 month migraine that has finally caused them to say I need to give my body a break and work on figuring out what is wrong with me.

So, since I apparently have extra time on my hands - especially since I had to defer the New York Marathon in November and won't have to spend my evenings and weekends training - I get to more time to play with my first love, crafting. For the first time ever, I have spent the last year NOT working on my scrapbooks, cards or crafts and I miss it. It was sort of hard to fit in with the training and 3 kids. Boy oh boy do I have a lot to catch up on! Zaki and I have already started a cute little project for his class for Halloween and I think the break I took allowed me to loosen my "lets make it perfect" reigns and let him really do his thing. It has been great to just have this time to play, not trying to fit it in around the 2 million other things that seem to pop up when you work full time and have 3 boys and spouse - who is still fitting in all his training, lol.

I'm anxious to see where this new journey takes me, hopefully playing in my craft room will keep me sane - and won't break the bank!