Weekday Date Night: Concert in the Park

Whenever we go on a date, it's always on the weekend. The weekdays are just crazy with work, training and real life. Since it's so close to a race, I don't have any workouts. So, we decided to enjoy our time together outside, in the nice, cool weather. We went to a concert in the park.

We picked up some KFC on our way there (I know how bad it is for you).

It was fun, we brought our camping chairs and just relaxed while listening to some swing music.

Since I'm not baking, I bought some cookies. If I baked these, they would have been half gone before we go there and 3 times as many. This was the better thing to to (PB cookies, of course).

There was a different crowd than I expected. Look at the sea of gray. We still had fun.

Here's part of the band. The singers. They dressed up in old war uniforms.

The people in front of us had this dog. It was begging for my chicken. It was so cute. It would just sit there moving its paws up and down with these sad, pathetic eyes.

A lot of these old people really knew how to dance. It was fun to watch them.

It was freezing out, so I'm glad we brought our sweatshirts. Jason was a good sport, he hates going to things like this (really anything with a lot of people).

I hope the weather stays this cool for tomorrow. There's only one more day. It's crazy!! Today and a lot of tomorrow, I will be hydrating like crazy. Water, please best friends with my belly today. I always hate how many bathroom trips this means. At least my co-worker (yes, I only have one) is understanding.

Tomorrow, I will talk about my goals and race day outfit and fueling.


Have you ever ran a night time half? If so, how did you fuel?

Are you racing this weekend?

Running While Wet

Last night, I forgot to make dinner before we headed out to the little street fair we had planned. So, we ended up stopping at this little mom & pa taqueria. They had the best salsa I've ever had at a restaurant.

The meal was huge and very filling (and only $7). Score! I got the enchilada and taco.

The fair was only a few blocks away, so we slowly made our way over after eating that huge dinner. Yes, we still had room for froyo. I always have room for froyo. All day, it had been very overcast and it was suppose to rain. Because of this, the fair was cancelled. It never rained and it was about 60 outside (perfect for an outdoors fair).

We still had our froyo and I was happy anyways. It was a great night out with Jason. I don't get to see him very much because of my schedule (and I always fall asleep so early).

This morning, I got up at 5:30 (super early for me) and needed to go feed my parents cat (they're out of town) and I needed to get a run in before my night time plans started. I figured, why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone? I ran 5.45 miles to my parents, took care of the cat and ran 5.45 miles home. It was a total of 10.90 miles round trip.

It was drizzly the entire time (and raining harder now). The mist felt good, though. Just what I needed during this run. I was super happy to be home and relaxing. That is rain on my face, it washed all the sweat away.


Some how, my socks got dirty while running (in shoes). That's never happened before, but I don't usually run in the rain.

I need to go and clean the house and prep dinner. It's girls night out (at my house) tonight. I haven't seen the girls since my half celebration.


I know a lot of people are racing today and tomorrow. How did it go?