charity: water Training

This is a schedule of my training for the charity: water 10k.

October 4 - 2.5 mile run (1 mile @ 5.3, 1 mile @ 5.5 and 0.5 mile @ 5.7)

October 5 - Strength (6:30am Total Body Conditioning class)

October 6 - 2.5 mile run (1 mile @ 5.3, 1 mile @ 5.5 and 0.5 mile @ 5.7)

October 8 - Cross train - 35 minutes on elliptical

October 9 - Long run (Central Park Loop - walked hill on west side and hill by Boathouse)

October 11 - 2.5 mile run (1 mile @ 5.5, 1 mile @ 5.7 and 0.5 mile @ 5.9)

October 12 - Strength (6:30am Total Body Conditioning class)

October 14 - 2 mile run and Strength (0.5 mile @ 5.5, 0.5 mile @ 5.7, 0.5 mile @ 5.9 and 0.5 mile @ 6.1 and Arms)

October 15 - Cross train - 35 minutes on elliptical

October 17 - Long run (Central Park Loop - with Jessica Joy and Dina)

October 18 - 2.5 mile run (1 mile @ 5.5, 1 mile @ 5.7 and 0.5 mile @ 5.9)

October 19 - Strength (6:30am Total Body Conditioning class)

October 20 - 3 mile run (1 mile @ 5.5, 1 mile @ 5.7 and 1 mile @ 5.9)

October 21 - 2 mile run and Strength (0.5 mile @ 5.6, 0.5 mile @ 5.8, 0.5 mile @ 6.0 and 0.5 mile @ 6.2 and Legs)

October 23 - 3 mile run (1 mile @ 5.6, 1 mile @ 5.8 and 1 mile @ 6.0)

October 24 - Long run (Run/Walk Central Park Loop with Jessica Joy)

October 25 - 3.5 mile run (1 mile @ 5.5, 0.5 mile @ 5.7, 0.25 mile @ 3.5, 1 mile @ 5.8, 0.25 mile @ 3.5 and 0.5 mile @ 6.0)

October 28 - 2 mile run and Strength (0.5 mile @ 5.5, 0.5 mile @ 5.7, 0.5 mile @ 5.9 and 0.5 mile @ 6.1 and Arms)

October 29 - Strength and Stretch (7pm Strength and Flexibility class at gym)

October 30 - ~3 mile run in Central Park (with Jessica Joy)

October 31 - Long run (Central Park Loop with Jessica Joy)

November 5 - Strength and Stretch (7pm Strength and Flexibility class at gym)

November 6 - 3 mile run (1 mile @ 5.5, 1 mile @ 5.7 and 1 mile @ 5.9)

November 7 - Long Run (1 mile @ 5.5, 1 mile @ 5.6, 1 mile @ 5.7, 1 mile @ 5.8 and 1 mile @ 5.9)

November 13 - 2 mile run and Strength (1 mile @ 5.8 and 1 mile @ 6.0 and Arms)

November 14 - Long run (Central Park Loop)

November 16 - 3 mile run @ 5.9

November 19 - 2 mile run and Strength (2 miles @ 5.9 and Arms)

November 20 - 10K!!!

charity: water 10k

This last Saturday, November 20, we held the TrinityGraceChurchRun4Water to benefit charity: water. The idea started after Scott Harrison spoke at church over the summer. Jessica Joy took the lead on organizing the run - we had a total of 18 runners!

Pre-run picture - you can also see all the fall trees in Central Park.

Stretching before the run.

On your marks, get set, go! (This obviously was a posed picture.)

And we're off... We started at 72nd on the east side and headed north on the Central Park Loop. It was great - we got one hill out of the way right away, and then we just had deal with the "North Woods Hill" - that one is a killer.

This was somewhere between mile 4 and 5.

Finished! It was about 48 degrees - perfect weather for running.

High five with Jarrett

Jessica Joy, Dina and I

Jessica Joy was my weekend running buddy in training for the run.

Our goal was to raise $5,000 which is the cost to build one well in a community. We exceeded our goal!!! Once the well is built, it will have a plaque that says "Trinity Grace Runners" and we can go visit the community.

Sauna Rules

I usually go sit in the sauna at the gym after working out - I will always go in during the winter to warm up before my 5-block walk back to my apartment. I turn my ipod to a slower song (usually Chris Tomlin or Nora Jones) and I take my phone and water bottle in with me. Anyway, a few weeks ago I was at the gym and I went and sat in the sauna after my workout. There were two others in there, and the conversation went something like this:

Crazy girl to me: "You can't have your shoes on in here!"

Me: Ignore her and just sit down.

Me: Change my ipod to a different song, and get my cell phone out and start looking at Facebook.

Crazy girl: "You have your phone in here too! That is a security violation." She gets up and leaves the sauna.

Normal girl to me: "I am glad you came in here - she said the exact same thing to me."

Me: "I always come in here with all my stuff after I workout - I am not worried about it. She's just weird."

5 minutes later...

NYSC Employee #1 to me and normal girl: "What is going on in here?"

Me: "This girl got upset with us since we had our shoes and phones in here - I don't know what her issue is."

NYSC Employee #1: "Yeah, you guys are not hurting anything. I come in here all the time in the winter with my shoes on just to warm up."

A few minutes later...

NYSC Employee #2: "You guys need to get out of the sauna - you can't have your shoes and clothes on in here."

Me: "I come in here all the time just like I am now. Did the rules change?"

NYSC Employee #2: "No, but this girl out there asked me to tell you to get out of here."

Me: "Ok, I will leave in a few minutes."

So...after all that, I noticed this sign on the door of the sauna a couple of days after the above incident.

I still don't obey these rules :)

Bucket List for 31

Some things I want to do before I turn 32:

• Run a timed 10-K (I say timed because the charity: water 10-K this Saturday is not timed)
• New Years Eve in Times Square (this is already planned so I figured I would add it to the list)
• Ride in the 5-borough bike ride
• Scrapbook 2009 and 2010
• Walk every street in the 80s from the East River to the Hudson (will have to do some detours through Central Park)
• Learn all the features on my camera
• Focus on living my life rather than building my life (Jon Tyson quote).

Yale University

Yesterday I spent the day walking around Yale. New Haven, CT is only about an hour and a half train ride on Metro North, and I have a friend here in NYC who graduated from Yale a few years ago, so we decided to take a day trip.

This is called the Old Campus. Grace said that all the freshman dorm at the Old Campus and then the rest of the students are at the "new campus" (I actually don't know the official name for it).

Dina, Me and Grace - Grace is the one who graduated from Yale in 2005 so she played tour guide for Dina and I. It was good having Grace there as we would follow students into buildings where you needed a pass to get in, and then Grace knew exactly where to take us and cool things to show us.

Such a beautiful day - I am so happy we went in the fall.

One large tree!

This is the library. All of the buildings were so old and there is so much history and tradition there.

I didn't buy the shirt - just wanted a picture.

Grace in front of the entrance to the gym.

These guys were on the crew team and they were practicing.

They were ripped! And also probably about 20 years old.

The campus reminded me of Hogwarts. Also, every student is in a residential college - Grace was in Silliman. I didn't see Gryffindor though :)

This is probably the end of fall. We switched over to daylight savings time today, so by 5pm tonight it was pitch dark. Not a fan of daylight savings.

This is Skull and Bones - a secret society.

Such a fun day. Yale does have a lot of history and I am sure it would have been a fun college to attend...but, I am happy to be a Sun Devil :) Thanks Grace for taking us!