A Case of the Runs

EVENT: YMCA Stair Climb DATE: Friday, September 27, 2013 LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA RACE BEGAN: 1:30 pm FINISH TIME: 17:46 To me, stairs are pretty much as bad as hills.  However, unlike hills, stairs can actually be quite dangerous, so I tend to avoid them.  Unfortunately, as a public transit user and a high-rise worker, I come across many stairs, and when I do, my legs often feel like lead. I'm not quite sure how I agreed to sign up for this event.  Although I consider myself decently fit, 1) I'm out of shape from cutting back on working out, and 2) stairs have always made me lose my breath and get my legs all locked up. Notice how this building dwarfs the others... This event, which benefits the YMCA , involves climbing up the stairs of the U.S. Bank Tower , one of the tallest buildings on the West coast.  (The "down" portion is elevator, thankfully for my knees.) This sucker is 75 floors tall.  As a reference, the building I work in has 54 flo...

In spite of my lack of cooking posts, there has definitely been plenty of it around here.  A strange new place feels more like home once you start making food in it! In those last couple weeks before we moved out, there were meals like this: Wild Planet Foods lemon sardines.  Very convenient and tasty on baguettes and lower in mercury than other canned fish! One of our wedding gifts in action! In those last weeks, we were making a game out of cooking with whatever we had in the pantry.  I think I baked a batch of banana-date scones with whole-wheat pastry flour that was starting to go a bit south.  I've been back at it again.  I really love my kitchen. =)  It's not big with an island, but it's clean, and somehow we manged to fit everything in spite of less cabinet space.  Perhaps I'll post more detailed photos someday, but I really love that I can plug in my appliances everywhere, and everything wipes off easily.  We wasted...

It's been some time since I've posted a T25 review, and there's a pretty good reason for that... probably not as exciting as for some , though. I mentioned that I'm having a few adjustment issues since moving.  First, running in the morning is now something I can only do with company, since it's so dark out, hilly and uneven, and wild animals are known to be in the area (haven't seen any yet, though!).  I know I could "woman up" and just run on my own with lights and pepper spray, but I don't enjoy running in fear.  The other day, I was running in front of "The Ukrainian," when I started yelling because I had just run thorough a FREAKING SPIDER WEB the size of my body that I obviously couldn't see in those conditions.  I'm used to running through webs, but this one was huge and not something I could easily brush off.  I had the "heebies" until I got home and showered. The second issue I'm having is the floor.  T...

It's been a while since I've worn a fun, pink running shirt.  In fact, I don't really have any pink running clothes at all.  I think it's usually more practical for me to wear whatever I get from races, and I like my shorts dark . The exception. It's not that I have anything against pink inherently -- I think it's just an issue with my skin tone clashing with it.  Also, pink items *tend* to be a little bit see-through, if you catch my drift -- but that's the point... don't want anyone to catch any of my drifts, ha ha. I recently got to try Swirlgear 's Capped Sleeve Shirt, which I found super cute! I've probably mentioned before that I am pretty self-conscious about my arms because my shoulders slope down and results in my arms being too close to my body, which results in major "flab-amplification."  (I also tend to store fat in them, so double-whammy.) I can't believe I'm admitting this on here, but it's a kno...