It's Friday and my brain is all mush and I feel like I can't string together a cohesive blog post. So here's some quick bullet points for you. Enjoy!

• I bagged last night's workout because 1) it was pouring rain so no running and 2) my legs were still killing me from the Shred so no Jillian. So I took it easy last night and chilled with a friend.

• I'm hoping to get some Jillian in tonight before some friends and I head out for dinner and drinks (for them not me) in D.C.

• Tomorrow morning I'm hitting up the local farmer's market for some delicious fruits and veggies. If you guys have any great recipes that use lots of produce let me know because I'm going to be excited to try new stuff.

• After Tuesday's horrible day full of exhaustion I tried to get more sleep the rest of this week. I was pretty successful and it made me feel a lot better. I may be adopting a 10 p.m. bedtime.

• The weather's got me bumming. It's rainy and in the 60's and it's June. What gives?

• I'm loving the new Runner's World. I soooo wish I could do the Marathon Challenge. How cool would it to be trained by Bart Yasso and run with the editors? Unfortunately, the day of the Richmond Marathon is also the day of the Maryland vs. Virginia Tech football game, a grudge match of sorts for the BF and I because he went to Tech. So we've already got big game day plans. Major bummer.

Ok that's it for me. I can't stand to make you read any more random babble. Happy Friday and hope you all have awesome weeeknd!

Yesterday was National Running Day. And you know what I didn't do? That's right, I didn't run.

Why you might ask? Well because National Running Day fell on one of my cross-training days and I wasn't about to get my training schedule all messed up just for some faux-holiday running celebration.

Seriously, I run most days of the week. In my mind every day should be National Running Day and people shouldn't need a special day to go out and do it. But yea, America is fat so I guess the country as a whole needs days like this. Props to all who participated.

I however knocked out a solid day of cross training. I did Level 3 of the 30 Day Shred for the first time and holy moly I was in some serious pain. I had to do the modified version of a lot of stuff because I thought I might die. What an awesome workout.

Then I taught my yoga class where I for the first time had two participants who I don't think smiled once. They were all super intense yoga people and the whole time I was just thinking, "Oh man my class is so not for you." My class is so mellow and chill and for people who just do yoga for a good time and for the health benefits. I don't like making people bend into unnatural shapes. So I feel like those two ladies probably didn't get a ton out of my class. But my normal Wed. lady was there too and she looked pretty happy with the class, so it's all good.

It's raining like crazy here today so we'll see how I'm feeling about tonight's run. If the weather clears I'll get it in, if not I might just swap in another day of the Shred.

Happy Thursday!

Sometimes I see some weird things on my morning commute. I think it must be because I leave my house by 6:25 to get into the office at 7 a.m. and all the wierdos haven't gone to bed yet or something like that.

I also tend to see a bunch of runners out logging their morning miles.

Well this morning I saw the funniest thing ever. I was walking down the street after getting off the metro when I hear singing over my right shoulder. I'm thinking it's just a homeless guy walking down the street singing to himself. Nothing that out of the usual.

I'm sure you can imagine my surprise when I get passed by an older man out for a run (wearing all black...whoo that's not smart in the summertime with the sun..and doing more of a shuffle than a run) and rocking an old bright yellow Walkman (didn't know those things still existed) clipped on the back of his belt.

Yup he was wearing a belt with all cotton and some tube socks. But the most bizarre thing of all was that he was singing to his music. And I'm not talking like under your breath humming like I'll sometimes do. I'm talking belting out his jams. I chuckled to myself a little bit.

Hey whatever makes you happy on a run right?

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In other news my laziness and crappy eating streak have continued. I skipped my run this weekend in favor of taking a day trip to the beach. It was a cut back week so only five miles so I didn't feel toooo bad about it. But then I skipped yesterday's three miler too because I was so exhausted. Back on the training wagon tonight with a tempo run. I have a feeling after my laziness and weekend of indulgence it ain't gonna be pretty.