In 7.5 hours I take the final exam
I sure hope I remember everything I studied today
when it's all over Runner Nerd is gonna put aside the Nerd and become just Runner for about 1.5 hrs!!
ok, time for some sleep
Runner Nerd
overstudier
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
18 more down, 34.3 to go!!
Ran 18 miles this week so I only need 34.3 more to hit 1000 for the year!
I studied at the Library today. There was something going on at the theater which is in the building right next to the library, that parking lot was full and the lot in front of the library had a lot of cars in it when I got there, I had to park way out which is unusual for a Sunday. When I came out of the library 3.5 hrs later the lots were nearly empty and my car was wayyyyyy out there all by itself!
Friday night at the party for my running group the boyfriend of one of the ladies proposed during the gift exchange!! I have never seen anyone propose in real life before. We do a gift exchange where we all bring a gift then we do the draw numbers thing and pick a gift when our number is called. One of the gifts was a banner rolled up and when the person who picked it opened it there was a note on it that said something like get a friend to help you unroll this. It was a long banner asking her to marry him. She had her back turned and was talking to someone as the rest of us were figuring out what it said!! It was really cool and she said yes and he gave her a ring!! They have been together for a long time. oh, yeah, the person who picked that "gift" then got to pick a real gift!! It was the highlight of the night!!
Tomorrow is my last day to study for my Bio final then I take the test Tuesday at 11 then I am DONEEEEEE!!!!!!!! I will wear my running clothes under sweats and go for a wonderful long run after class on Tuesday!!!!!!! After my run I will check online for my grade, gotta love it, within 2 hours after taking an exam the grades are posted online!!
I studied at the Library today. There was something going on at the theater which is in the building right next to the library, that parking lot was full and the lot in front of the library had a lot of cars in it when I got there, I had to park way out which is unusual for a Sunday. When I came out of the library 3.5 hrs later the lots were nearly empty and my car was wayyyyyy out there all by itself!
Friday night at the party for my running group the boyfriend of one of the ladies proposed during the gift exchange!! I have never seen anyone propose in real life before. We do a gift exchange where we all bring a gift then we do the draw numbers thing and pick a gift when our number is called. One of the gifts was a banner rolled up and when the person who picked it opened it there was a note on it that said something like get a friend to help you unroll this. It was a long banner asking her to marry him. She had her back turned and was talking to someone as the rest of us were figuring out what it said!! It was really cool and she said yes and he gave her a ring!! They have been together for a long time. oh, yeah, the person who picked that "gift" then got to pick a real gift!! It was the highlight of the night!!
Tomorrow is my last day to study for my Bio final then I take the test Tuesday at 11 then I am DONEEEEEE!!!!!!!! I will wear my running clothes under sweats and go for a wonderful long run after class on Tuesday!!!!!!! After my run I will check online for my grade, gotta love it, within 2 hours after taking an exam the grades are posted online!!
Friday, December 11, 2009
10 degrees, windy & 11 nutty people out running in the dark
10 degrees, windy, 11 nutty people running on the sidewalk along Jackson Rd. wearing reflective vests and headlamps. Yep, that's normal.
It was COLD out there. I wore a new pair of Asics winter tights that I bought in the middle of summer at a big sidewalk sale at the running store. I like them, they fit good and they look ok on me but I'm not sure if they are as warm as my Underarmour Coldgear tights. We just did a simple out and back on Jackson Rd tonight. The "out" went fine, the "back" was into the wind. My face felt like after dental work! Right now the thought of training for a spring marathon isn't very appealing. Maybe we are getting all the nasty weather out of the way now and come February it will be 30s to 40s, no snow and sunny!! Yeah, right. If I do decide to do Bayshore, Feb 6 is the day I need to start the training but there is that little detail of base building between now and then. I JUST DON'T KNOW.
In other things...
Today I gave my presentation in my English class. I got a 100%!!!! (within the next couple days I'm going to make a blog post of my presentation subject, it's an interesting story of a woman who was ahead of her time in the 1930s) I will get a 4.0 for the class!! I also got my writing portfolio back. I got 100% on that too. (300 of 300 points) My teacher wrote that I should write "in your own voice" more. I'm not really sure what he means. I am not a good writer and never have been. I am glad that class is done even though we still have to go next Thursday. My final in Human Bio is Tuesday and that class will be done, the teacher isn't holding class on Thursday. As of right now I have 99.3 in Bio so as long as I don't have a total disaster on the final I will end up with a 4.0 in that class too! I have some studying to do this weekend.
Tomorrow night is the Holiday party for the running group that I've had to miss out on this semester. I found a great gift for the gift exchange, it's a necklace with a little running girl on it!! It is so cool.
Next Thursday night we are having a Christmas party at the running store after the group run. We are going to do a short run through a couple of subdivisions that are near the store (Christmas light gawking) then back to the store for FOOD!!!!!!!!!! We are also going to watch the Grinch movie. It will be fun. I just hope the running store remembers to put something in the weekly e-newsletter next week; they forgot to this week.
That's about it for now.
It was COLD out there. I wore a new pair of Asics winter tights that I bought in the middle of summer at a big sidewalk sale at the running store. I like them, they fit good and they look ok on me but I'm not sure if they are as warm as my Underarmour Coldgear tights. We just did a simple out and back on Jackson Rd tonight. The "out" went fine, the "back" was into the wind. My face felt like after dental work! Right now the thought of training for a spring marathon isn't very appealing. Maybe we are getting all the nasty weather out of the way now and come February it will be 30s to 40s, no snow and sunny!! Yeah, right. If I do decide to do Bayshore, Feb 6 is the day I need to start the training but there is that little detail of base building between now and then. I JUST DON'T KNOW.
In other things...
Today I gave my presentation in my English class. I got a 100%!!!! (within the next couple days I'm going to make a blog post of my presentation subject, it's an interesting story of a woman who was ahead of her time in the 1930s) I will get a 4.0 for the class!! I also got my writing portfolio back. I got 100% on that too. (300 of 300 points) My teacher wrote that I should write "in your own voice" more. I'm not really sure what he means. I am not a good writer and never have been. I am glad that class is done even though we still have to go next Thursday. My final in Human Bio is Tuesday and that class will be done, the teacher isn't holding class on Thursday. As of right now I have 99.3 in Bio so as long as I don't have a total disaster on the final I will end up with a 4.0 in that class too! I have some studying to do this weekend.
Tomorrow night is the Holiday party for the running group that I've had to miss out on this semester. I found a great gift for the gift exchange, it's a necklace with a little running girl on it!! It is so cool.
Next Thursday night we are having a Christmas party at the running store after the group run. We are going to do a short run through a couple of subdivisions that are near the store (Christmas light gawking) then back to the store for FOOD!!!!!!!!!! We are also going to watch the Grinch movie. It will be fun. I just hope the running store remembers to put something in the weekly e-newsletter next week; they forgot to this week.
That's about it for now.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Mission almost accomplished
Today was my last lab for Human Bio class and I could not be happier!! I said goodbye to the kitty I've been disecting for 10 weeks. I am very disappointed in myself, I missed 3 on the test we had in lab today so my grade is 94. My overall grade was 98.5 and with this 94 it will bring my grade down to 97.8. I know that's not tragic or anything, I still have a 4.0 for the class. Oh well, I have to get past it and study for the final which is next Tuesday.
To celebrate being done with lab and the final lab test being over I went for a 7 mile trail run!! I didn't run very fast but I ran and my hamstring never hurt. It snowed on and off while I was running, that's the first time running in snow this season. I really enjoyed my run and I am 7 miles closer to my goal of 1000 by the end of the year!! (I think I now have 46 to go)
My daughter had all of her finals yesterday and today and she is now home until the end of the first week of January, over a month. I still have another week and there goes my quiet house.
It's snowing. We are getting our first snow of the season. My daughter and I went to town earier in the evening and on our way home we saw 2 cars slide into the median or ditch, typical on the first snowfall of the season. People seem to forget that you have to slow down when it snows and becomes slippery.
OK, I am off to bed. This college student nerd runner is exhausted and has an oral presentation to finish up for Thursday English class. Yippie. That is another class I will be very happy about finishing.
To celebrate being done with lab and the final lab test being over I went for a 7 mile trail run!! I didn't run very fast but I ran and my hamstring never hurt. It snowed on and off while I was running, that's the first time running in snow this season. I really enjoyed my run and I am 7 miles closer to my goal of 1000 by the end of the year!! (I think I now have 46 to go)
My daughter had all of her finals yesterday and today and she is now home until the end of the first week of January, over a month. I still have another week and there goes my quiet house.
It's snowing. We are getting our first snow of the season. My daughter and I went to town earier in the evening and on our way home we saw 2 cars slide into the median or ditch, typical on the first snowfall of the season. People seem to forget that you have to slow down when it snows and becomes slippery.
OK, I am off to bed. This college student nerd runner is exhausted and has an oral presentation to finish up for Thursday English class. Yippie. That is another class I will be very happy about finishing.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Last Lab!!!!
Yayyyyyyyyyy!! Tomorrow is my last lab in Human Bio class!!! Well, actually it's today, just realized it's Tuesday now!
I believe I am ready for the test.
After school I go running!!!!!!
Time for some sleep now.
I believe I am ready for the test.
After school I go running!!!!!!
Time for some sleep now.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Octogenarian Marathoner
I stumbled upon an article about a dude who is 80 years young and still running marathons! He recently ran his 456th marathon and he didn't even start running until he was 51 years old!! WOW! That is an average of 15 per year! The article says his record is 24 in one year. GEEZ, that's 2 per month! I couldn't even run without pain for 7 weeks after my last marathon. (makes one wonder why I'd want to do it again!) He ran a marathon ON his 80th birthday even!!
His first marathon time was 3:53:45, that's faster than I've ever run one. His PR was at age 58 with 3:00:12. WOWWWW!! He has run 10 Bostons with a PR of 3:04:25, also at age 58. (only a week after the 3 hour PR!) He's been slowing down these days; the last time he ran a sub 4 hour marathon was in 2003 at age 73 (3:59:01). His fastest marathon of 2009 (so far, he still has 2 more to run this year) was 5:22:19. He is running Boston in 2010 according to the article. The qualifying time for 80 years is 5 hours so he must have qualified late in 2008 at a race that was a qualifier for 2010. For having run 456 marathons he's only run them in 37 different states. The author of the article said he is in "octogenarian overdrive"!! I guess so! This dude is not spending his retirement in a rocking chair!
YOU ROCK, Bob Dolphin!! Go kick age group butt at Boston 2010!!!!!!
His first marathon time was 3:53:45, that's faster than I've ever run one. His PR was at age 58 with 3:00:12. WOWWWW!! He has run 10 Bostons with a PR of 3:04:25, also at age 58. (only a week after the 3 hour PR!) He's been slowing down these days; the last time he ran a sub 4 hour marathon was in 2003 at age 73 (3:59:01). His fastest marathon of 2009 (so far, he still has 2 more to run this year) was 5:22:19. He is running Boston in 2010 according to the article. The qualifying time for 80 years is 5 hours so he must have qualified late in 2008 at a race that was a qualifier for 2010. For having run 456 marathons he's only run them in 37 different states. The author of the article said he is in "octogenarian overdrive"!! I guess so! This dude is not spending his retirement in a rocking chair!
YOU ROCK, Bob Dolphin!! Go kick age group butt at Boston 2010!!!!!!
Christmas Parade
Each year on the night of the parade and the tree lighting in the park they put out luminaries made from milk jugs along both sides of main street. A couple years ago I drove through the town on that night and saw them. It is really something to see, very beautiful. When I was on my way to work it was still light out but the luminaries were sitting out along the street. They look funny when it's light, they look like milk jugs!! When it is dark and they have a candle burning inside them they don't look like milk jugs. I took a few pictures when I was stopped during the parade. I was driving very slow and had to stop a lot since the float in front of me included people walking. There were a lot of kids walking in it too so it moved slow like most parades do. The luminaries show in the pictures but it's not as pretty as seeing them. I love luminaries and candles. My kids say I have an obsession with fire because I like to light lots of candles. One year we had a hayride party and I had carved a bunch of jack-o-lanterns and had them around the yard and I had orange luminaires around the area where we had a fire going. I tried to do the same thing the next year but it was too windy and they wouldn't stay lit. I usually put luminaries along our driveway on Christmas eve, sometimes they stay lit and sometimes they don't.
I posted the pictures I took of the luminaries, hopefully they show up enough. I also posted a pic of one of the fire trucks with christmas lights on it! It was blocking the street where all the paraders entered the street from the staging area in shopping center parking lot.
I'm not very good at doing this, I don't know how to arrange the pictures but this isn't quite what I had in mind!! I have a computer class next semester, who knows maybe I will become more tech-savvy! ha ha!
I feel like lighting candles now!!
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