On Monday my little brother graduated from college! Summa Cum Laude- my family and I could not be more proud. A huge thanks to my cousins for coming form Texas to celebrate this special occasion with us. We wrapped up a lovely weekend of family awesomeness with lunch at Roti.

On Sunday, my cousins from Texas wanted a taste of some Maryland crab cake. We headed over to the Inner Harbor to see what we could find. Only Phillips was serving their lunch menu at 12:30 so we all had some delicious crab dip to start and various sea food dishes followed. We headed home for a graduation party for my bother, and two cousins to celebrate the completion of college, high school and graduate school. We had a massive family reunion at my house with almost all of the family on my mom’s side. I was a lovely day filled with family and food.

Spent an awesome day being a tourist in D.C. My cousins are here from Dallas to celebrate my brother’s graduation from college. I had a wonderful day with all of my cousins on my mom’s side being together for the first time. I also tried D.C food truck food for the first time.

Real or fake? You be the judge.

Broken hearts can heal. Broken pencils can write.

This is not a dragon. I found this randomly in my bag, it was so tiny I almost tossed it out.

No pain no gain. I ran a total of 15.5 miles last week. You better believe their was some pain involved.

Training Plan:

Here is what I ended up doing:

On Tuesday we did some speed work!

Here is the workout my coaches e-mailed out to use. They like to give us a taste of what to expect. Truthfully, it did not make any sense to me so I went into the workout blind.

The speed work will consist of running 100m hard, 100m easy, 100m hard, 100m easy, 200m hard and 200m easy.  We will repeat this two more times.  Then a nice one mile cool down for a total of about 3.5 miles for the whole workout.

I am still getting used to doing “speed work” so I took the warm-up a bit slower and tried to prepare myself for the speed part of the workout. Fortunately, we were not going super fast and I felt comfortable the entire time. In fact- I could have gone a bit harder during the hard portions. But it was a nice workout overall.

My running water bottle matches my shoes. My coaches encourage us to run with water and now I feel weird if I don’t have any with me.

On Thursday I met up with the women I run with to do a 3 mile loop. I was hot the entire time I ran and the run just felt hard. By the time we made it back to where we had parked my running app had me at 2.86 miles. I really want to stick to the training program so I say bye to the ladies and made it to 3.5 miles on my own.

No pain no gain. At least I had a beautiful run.

Saturday was our “long” run. And boy was it long. We were running a new path and we got lost a lot. We spent a lot of time stopping and and starting. And I basically never got into the run mentally. We finished up exactly 6 miles running laps around an apartment complex parking lot.

Some parts of the run were nicer than others. I only like running in pretty places.

But we got in the 6 miles and had an awesome post workout breakfast waiting for us.

Waffle Truck! You know how I have issues about eating form food trucks- but I decided to suck it up and boy was it worth it!

The liege waffle was perfectly sweetened and I bought 2 more to take back to my family. Even the orange juice was amazing.

But my favorite was the savory waffle. SO GOOD. I got the egg and cheese and it was the best egg and cheese sandwich I had ever eaten. It was light and flavorful.

All future long runs will end with a stop at the waffle truck.

Thomas Waffles — open Saturdays
in the parking lot of Kendall Hardware
12260 Clarksville Pike (Rte 108)
Clarksville, MD 21029

  Have you ever had a savory waffle?

Running on Sunday after 6 miles was not horrible at all. I had my running buddy with me and we chatted though 2.7 miles. The only downside was that I was so sweaty and the sweat BURNED when it got into my eyes. Maybe I need to run with a hat on?

I am not sure how my parents acquired this interesting looking cup. We think it’s Russian art. It now houses my pens.

I crave sushi all the time. The perfect Friday afternoon lunch. Spicy crab and Tempura Dragon Roll.

What is REALLY GOOD FOR YOU?

1) Feel around for my glasses.

I am blind as a bat and I always keep my glasses next to my bed. Some mornings I can’t feel around for them and the panic sets in.

I do have an extra pair so it all works out in the end.

2) Frantically check my phone to see what time it is and how late I am going to be for class/work.

What is always a part of your morning routine?