Turkey Day

Turkey Day was busy this year!!!

The festivities started on Wenesday night with the Superior Grill annual block party. Adam and I met up with Mary, Keri and Hudson. Friends, lots of music and margaritta's = lots of fun.
The girls, Keri, Mary and me:)

Me and Adam

What lots of music and margaritta's does not = is a good Turkey Day race time. The 101st annual 5 mile Turkey Day race was at City park Thursday morning. They had a crowd of over 2,000 so it was a great turnout. Due to my Wednesday night activites I decided it would be in my best intrest to just run slow and easy, so I ran with my friend Eva from Catch 22 and we finished in 46:00......All I have to say is George is VERY lucky I was hungover.

Adam and I had Thanksgiving lunch at my parents house and then headed to his parents place in MS.

The MS. house

We always have fun when we go here. This weekends activites included, watching football, paddle boat rides, playing with the 6 neices and nephews, playing pool, shooting guns, going for gator rides at night, making a big fire and smores, and fishing; I caught my first fish!

Adam had to show me "how to hold it" correctly.....

I finshed the Thanksgving weekend off at Pancake-a-looza. One of my friends from Catch 22, Kelly, had the girls over to make pancakes and drink Mimosa's yesterday, we had any topping you could ever want to put on a pancake. Pancakes and Mimosa's for lunch... it doesn't get much better:)

Running and Po-boys

This morning was the Old Man River 5K and 1/2 Marathon at City Park. I am not quite up to 1/2 marathon mileage these days so I just ran the 5k. I felt pretty good during this race (which was a change) but I didn't run as fast as I would have liked. I need to get a little more control on my pacing, I ran 7:24, 7:43, 7:45, :45, for a grand total of 23:40. I did win second in my age group and a cool frosty glass so that was nice.

My friend Mary did her 1st 1/2 marathon, I had been giving her tips and keeping up with her training the past few weeks so I was excited to see her meet her goal of finishing! She did great, I met her at miles 7, 9, 11 and 12 and ran/walked with her a bit at each.

Here we are after the race..

After the race we headed to Po-Boy festival on Oak street. The weather could not have been better! We had the most delicious roast beef po-boy and took in the sights. They had any kind of po-boy you could think of, music and even a second line complete with a brass band and people waving french bread in the air,that was my favorite part!

Po-boy Fest on Maple Street

1st Blog Ever

It seems like these days everyone has one of these Blog things so I thought I would give it a try. I'm not really even sure of the point, I guess to keep friends and family updated . My life isn't always that exciting so I'll try my best to keep this entertaining! Here it goes... my first Blog ever...

I guess I should start this one with a little about me... I'm 29 years old. I live in New Orleans and work at an Architecture Firm as an Interior Designer. I know you're thinking I pick colors all day. Not so much. In fact I don't even remember the last time I picked a color... maybe when I painted my living room this summer? I really do like my job, my boss says he's going to turn me into an architect yet.

Adam is my boyfriend of 3 years. He knows how to make me laugh, and I love being with him. We always have a good time together. Here are some self portriats of Adam by Adam:

Next to Adam my other love is running. I would run all day long if I could, unfortunatley my body doesn't like me running as much as I like to do it.

I have been running with a group of really fast people(much faster than me!) called Catch 22 for the past year and a half.

They are a really great, fun group of people and I have learned so much from them. Slowly I have been getting faster and hope to reach some P.R.'s this year! In April I am registered to compete in my first 1/2 Ironman. That's 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike and a 1/2 marathon. Yes I am scared. My training strats in December so there will be more on that to come. http://www.ironmanneworleans.com/

Well that's all the basics about me for now.....