I did it! I finally got over my fear of the weight room (sorta!) and lifted this morning. Upper body only because I wanted to give the legs a rest, they were feeling a little drained.

I hit the free weights for bis, tris, shoulders, chest and back. I'm not too sore, but I think I will be a little bit more tomorrow.

For real that's all I've got for today. Catch ya' later!

Peeps, I was tagged and completely forgot about it until right now. Thanks to Teacherwoman and Molly for the tag.

Ok so here we go:

The rules:

Link to the person who tagged you. (See above for mine)

Post the rules on your blog.

Share seven random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog.

Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.

Leave a comment on their blogs so that they know they have been tagged.

Seven random things about me:
1. When people from my new job ask me where I'm from, I accidentally say Maryland all the time even though I only went to school there and am actually from Allentown.

2. I absolutely hate when people that I'm supposed to interview for stories don't call me back. It stresses me out. (P.S. I'm a journalist)

3. The lady that I rent a room from has two dogs and a cat. I have never had pets before this unless you count a few goldfish and a hamster.

4. I've never broken a bone/had surgery, which is a good thing because I have serious needle-phobia.

5. I love to dance to really bad hip hop music at the bar, even though I look ridiculous doing it.

6. The beach is my favorite place in the entire world. One day I hope to own a beach house somewhere.

7. I'm really environmentally conscious, but I'm not sure I'd call myself a tree hugger.

So there are my seven random facts. And now I tag:

Tart Reform
Renee
Joe
Scott
Jahowie
CollegeGirl
Neese

In other news, got in 35 minutes at 5.5 mph on the treadmill this morning. Nothing really exciting to comment on. Can't wait until we move the clocks up so we get some longer days and some outside runs.

As I mentioned in my previous post, today's long run was scheduled to be a 10K (or 6.2 miles). I was debating whether I just wanted to run the three mile loops through my neighborhood twice or if I wanted to try out this trail down in the city that everyone keeps telling me about.

I decided to test out the trail, and it very well might have been my first and last time on it. At least by myself and because I don't know a single person here who runs as slow as me I don't really have a running buddy I could go with.

The trail itself was fine. Parts were concrete, parts were gravel, but peeps it was shady as hell. It follows the railroad tracks and a river and you go past all these seedy run down houses and buildings with their windows broken and stuff. As I was running I was just picturing all the places some psycho killer could leave my poor, mutilated body and it would probably never be found.

So needless to say as I was running I revamped my plan. Originally the plan was to run three miles and out three back for a total of six. I changed that to two out, two back for a total of four. Then I figured I'd try to see if the trail went in the other direction and do one mile out and one back to get a total of six, but oopsies it didn't. So I picked up an extra .3 trying to find the trail going in the other direction before I headed back and just did the first mile out and back to get my last two.

So that total was 6.3 miles in 1:10:13, a time I'm happy with.

I also had to park my car .23 miles away from the start of the trail (damn parking meters that I refused to pay) so I jogged from my car to the start of the trail as warm up, but I didn't have my watch on or anything so I don't have a time for that.

But still that means my total today was something close to 6.5 miles.

My knees are a little sore, and my hips feel tight, but otherwise I feel fine. I was pumped that I was able to run the whole thing because in other years during training I sometimes had to add in walk breaks as I started ramping up the mileage. Not this time though!

Tomorrow's a rest day! Yippie!

Hope you all have a rockin' weekend. Catch you back here Monday!