May Recap

Average Temp: 67F/19C

Miles run: 118.3 mi

Rest days taken: 10 days

Highest mileage week: 30 miles (5/23-5/29)

Average pace: 8:17 min/mile

Races: Flower City Half Marathon, Pink Ribbon 5k, and the Corporate Challenge (didn't post about this one)

Current Obsessions: The wedding!  We are at about 100 days to go/3 months and I am starting to buckle down and get everything organized!

Current Blessings: Friends!!  When our movers called in "sick" on Saturday, we were able to pull together a few people to help us move Brian out of his apartment and into the house! Could not be more thankful to them for taking time out of their day for us!

Current Excitement: Brian's sister-in-law gave birth last Friday to TWINS!  They are the most beautiful babies ever and I cannot wait to become "Officially" an AUNT in just over 3 months!

Current Read: Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts (book 3 of the Bridal Quartet books).  I am embarrassed to say that I got sucked into reading this romance novel only because of the "bridal" part of it.  Its a fun, brainless, summer read.

Current Guilty Pleasure: Trolli Peach Rings.  Must. Stop. Eating. Candy!

This year sure is flying by fast!  Happy June!

Three Things Thursday

1. I stopped wearing them because of half marathon training and because we are having the rainiest spring ever - but today I am bringing them back - High Heels!  It feels good to slip my toes into these cute pumps and hear the comfortable click of them on the floor.

2. I feel sort of lost lately without a training plan to follow and with no "big races" on the schedule as of yet, I feel unmotivated.  Most of the nearby summer races are 5ks and there is only so many times I can run a 5k race before I need a change up.  I am not sure I want to schedule a fall race as the wedding is in the beginning of September.  Maybe I just need to find a race, sign up and start a training plan..??!!

3. I ordered my wedding invitations today!!  I used Wedding Paper Divas and I cannot wait until they arrive so I can show them to you!  They have a great selection of not only wedding invitations but tons of other invitations and stationary as well!

Happy Thursday!

Running in glasses

Something you may not know about me -

I wear contacts.  Daily.  Monthly. Yearly.  Every single day I have worn contacts since I was 11 years old.  I run in my contacts.  I eat in my contacts.  I don't sleep in my contacts.

This week and into next week I can't wear my contacts.  Not even for a little bit, which means that I have to run in my glasses.

Monday morning dawned beautifully with a great sunrise.  I headed out at my usual 5am time for an easy 3 miles.

The temperature was perfect for a morning run - Just above 60F with not too much humidity.

The only bad part was having to deal with my glasses. They fog up when I stop running.  They aren't my current prescription so I can't clearly see far away objects.  I look like a librarian.  They pretty much stay in place while running, but nothing compares to my contacts.  Only a few more days until I am glasses free once again!

Happy Running!

Running on the rails

This morning I met up with the Saturday morning running group for a long run.  I had seen the planned route before hand but really had no idea where we were going.  It was all new to me. 

We started off on the canal which was flat and I had already run on it before.  About 2 miles in we veered off onto the old railroad train bed trail.  The trees were lush and green, the grass was fresh with dew and the sun was peaking through the clouds.  It was heaven.

Every step along the path was amazing and as we continued on we came along the old canal bed and lock.  This whole area and trail was just behind a road I frequent often and I never knew it was there.  It was amazing to discover a new area that was beautiful and a great place to run.  I really regretted not bringing my camera many times because I wanted to capture just how awesome and beautiful the run was.  I was able to find a few pictures online but they are not exactly the same.

This run marks the start of a VERY busy weekend - Bridal shower for a friend today, then volunteering at a race tomorrow and finally getting to see Something Borrowed tomorrow afternoon!  At least I got a great run in!

11.01 miles/1:32:49/8:26 pace

Wedding Talk: Cake!

A few weeks ago, Brian and I went to our cake tasting with the bakery who is making our cake.  Deciding on our wedding cake had to be one of the easier and the hardest things Brian and I had to do.

The easy part - Tasting the cake and deciding what kind of cake we wanted.

The hard part - Deciding what type of design we wanted on the cake.

Brian only cared about the actual cake part, not the design part so that responsibility fell on me.  Our cake will be four tiers with the first and third tiers having a swirl pattern and the second and fourth tiers having a dot pattern.  It will resemble something like this.

 Each tier of the cake will be a different flavor so that our guests have a variety to choose from.  We made the bottom and top tier Red Velvet because it is our favorite!

Once we had the basic idea of the cake figured out, there was one thing left.  The cake topper.

I thought about flowers, I thought about rhinestone initials.  I searched the internet forever.  Nothing really stood out.  Then I had the idea of using a family cake topper.  My parent's cake topper is a little beat up and broken so I emailed my aunt to ask her about her's and my grandparents.  She got right on it and sent me photos of what she had.  I am still up in the air about what we will be doing - but I think there is a chance I will be using a family cake topper.

My Grandparent's cake topper

My aunt and uncle's cake topper

When I got to see the family cake toppers in person, they were WAY smaller than I thought.  There is still 3 and 1/2 months to go, so I have some time before I have to make a final decision.