Ski Trip 2009

Here are a few pictures from our ski trip last month to Colorado.

February 3,2009

AM
Time: 5:30AM
Duration: ~1:35:00
Location - Sadie's 10 mile Route

Sport: Running
Workout: Easy 10 Miles
Distance: 11 Miles
Weather: Cold
People: Lisa and Dee

First off, I am never running with Cheryl again. She almost got me killed on several times. I saw my life flash before me several times. She was leading the pack and I with the rest of the group just followed. I didn't bother to look when I crossed the street because we were just a foot or so behind her and I figured she was looking. Usually if I am in front I will yell "car" or "stop" or "get your butt moving cause a is car coming". But not her. She said nothing. So after I gave her a hard time she finally started yelling everything thing in sight, curb, tree, people, car, light, etc. So I loved her again. Anyway, we split up from her and some of the rest of the group after 4 miles or so and kept going with Dee and Lisa. We talked and some good chit chat. After getting back around to the capitol, we dropped off Dee and Lisa and I kept going. We were making pretty good time. We did have to stop a couple of times to figure out where the heck we were going but once we got going we were golden. There were some nice hills in there too. Thanks Sadie. Good run. We only got lost a couple of times.

PM
Time: 7:00PM
Duration: ~30:00
Location - Out and back to Sabrina's

Sport: Running
Workout: Easy Run
Distance: 3 Miles
Weather: Cool
People: Husband

Tim wanted to go for a nice run so I thought I would join him. He just wanted to stretch his legs. So I called up Sabrina who live about a 1.5 miles away to see if she would be our water stop. She kindly accepted. So before I had any second thoughts about it since I had already run 10 this morning, we were out the door. We had a nice easy jog over to her house and stayed and talked for awhile. I will count this as my "Wednesday Easy Run".

February 2,2009

Time: 5:30PM
Duration: ~1:30:00
Location: Yogagroove

Sport: Yoga
Workout: Bikram Yoga
Distance: N/A
Weather: H-O-T!!
People: N/A

I haven't been to yoga in along time. Mainly for a couple of reasons such as I feel like when I go I waste my whole night or morning. It is up north and I have to leave 30 minutes early and then takes me 30 minutes to get back home. I just feel like I would rather spend time with my husband in the evenings and mornings aren't an option because they start at 6:00am and that would make me get stuck in 8:00 traffic in the mornings. Not happening. Well, since they added another studio/room, they added a new schedule. I decided to rush out of work and make the 5:30 class. I was alittle late but called ahead and had them put out a mat for me.

I thought I was going to suffer through this class but I made it through like a champ!! It was hard but not nearly has hard as I thought it was going to be. I have a stronger core than I think I do. I will be going back this weekend some time.

25 Radom Things About Me...

I got tagged in face book about this. I thought I might as well post them on this blog.

1. I was named after my dad. His name is Stephen Michael and I am Stephanie Michelle. I am pretty mini version of him- legs, face, smile, teeth, etc.

2. I do not drive on holidays (birthday, Christmas, Valentines, etc.). I have had 4 accidents including 1 head-on on those days. Believe me, Volvo's are the safest cars. They saved my life more than once.

3. My husband and I are brothers. We both belong to the same fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi. It is a professional business fraternity.

4. I originally started running to help my dad loose weight. My sister and I thought it would be a good idea if we all trained together. He ended up dropping out after a few weeks and Judi and I stayed with it. Amy Anderson was my 1st running coach. We trained for the Komen Race 5k for the cure.

5. I didn't know how to ride a bike till I was 24. My sister fell off the bike once when she was little so Mom and Dad put the bike in garage and never were to be seen or heard of again. Tim, my boyfriend at the time, finally taught me how and bought me my 1st bike for Christmas at the age of 24.

6. When Tim is out of town, you can usually find me at Luby's and having pizza. He hates both of those things so I never get to have them.

7. I have to have the bed made every morning. In our household who ever gets up lasts, gets to make it.

8. I was in band from 6th grade all the way through high school. I played the flute and piccolo. Which I still have all 3 of them - marching flute, concert flute, and piccolo. I even went to band camp at UT every summer.

9. I was in Camp Fire. The same thing as Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts but for boys and girls.

10. During my college days, I was always in school. I didn't take a single summer off or any other semester off. I loved summer school enough to take at least 9 hours per session.

11. Since I was in high school, I have worked through all Christmas, Spring Breaks and summer school breaks. Even it it was just a week or so. I would rather gain work experience and earn money.

12. I have been doing accounting for as long as I can remember. I would help my dad enter the checks into spreadsheets at home when I was in middle school.

13. My favorite show of all time is Walker, Texas Ranger. When I was in high school or middle school I would have to be home my 9pm to watch it on Fridays. I still watch it to this day.

14. I am addicted to Ebay!! You can find anything and everything on there. I have also made some money on there selling some of my stuff.

15. I have meet my husband at Dallas night club, but didn't know it at the time. He originally was hitting on my best friend at the time but she pawned him off on me because he wasn't her type but thought he was mine. We danced one song than went our separate ways. Then 6 months later, I meet him again while pledging our fraternity. After a couple of months of dating we finally realized that we had meet before at Dallas.

16. My mom taught my sister and I never to go anywhere without make-up and lipstick.

17. I love to workout - going for a nice long or short run makes me the happy. If I don't run or workout, I will get grumpy.

18. I am very close to my huge family. My dad is from a family of 10. Usually Thanksgiving includes about 45 to 50 people on the smaller side. It seems very normal to us too. Poor Tim.

19. My sister and I love to shop together. This past Thanksgiving we headed to the outlet mall at midnight and shopped till 6am then headed over to Barton Creek Mall for a couple of more hours. That is at least 8 hours of straight shopping.

20. I ran my 1st marathon (February) and 1st Half-Ironman (July) in the same year, 2006!

21. I always have to have my toenails painted. If not they feel naked.

22. I am full blooded Hispanic but I do not like Mexican food or cook it.

23. I have in my trunk a set of workout clothes and dressy outfit in case of an emergency.

24. I hardly ever sweat. It takes alot to make me.

25. My father and I own our accounting office downtown. We do corporate, partnerships, and individual returns. We also do payroll taxes (TWC, 941, 940), sales tax, franchise tax, and monthly financial statements. I can love my job.

January 31,2009

Time: 5:30AM
Duration: ~?
Location - Out and Back to Austin High and Out and Back of the Marathon Course

Sport: Running
Workout: Long Easy 20 Miles Run
Distance: 20 Miles
Weather: Cool but warmed up nicely
People: Andrea

I meet up with Andrea for our long run. I talked her into doing a short 6 mile loop then meet back at Rogue and do another 14. Mentally that sounded so much better than 20. We had a good easy run and enjoyed each other's company. It was nice running with her and we ran sub 10:00/min. It was a really good run, but I must admit I was ready to be done at around mile 18. I did finish strong and was happy with how I felt at the end. Sore but could have gone longer.

January 29,2009

AM
Time: 5:30AM
Duration: ~???
Location - 2 Mile loop - East Austin

Sport: Running
Workout: 2 Mile Warm-up, 4 Miles Steady State, 2 mile Cool-down
Distance: 8 Miles
Weather: Freezing...
People: Team Rogue

It was freezing outside. I made it a point to not look at my phone when I got up to find out what the temp was otherwise I would have talked myself out of running. I got there and none of my running buddies were there. I did the warm-up faster than what I wanted but I didn't want to be left by myself. I didn't know the route at all. Luckily during the 2nd loop Dee finally caught up to me. I was so thankful to see her. I was ready to call it a day if I hadn't I seen her. She passed me and I just tried to keep up with her and talk to her and it worked. Before I knew it I was done.

PM
Time: 7:00PM
Duration: 1 hour
Location - Lifetime Fitness

Sport: Weightlifting/Cardio
Workout: 50/50 class
Distance: N/A
Weather: N/A
People: N/A

I was really sleepy today, but I made it to class and I finished the class strong. I don't think I ate enough today. I need to eat more and drink more on the double workout days.

January 28,2009

AM
Time: 12:00PM
Duration: ~34:00
Location - Gold's gym

Sport: Running
Workout: Easy 3-5 miles
Distance: 3.5 Miles
Weather: N/A
People: N/A

I originally was going to skip this run but after some peer pressure from my fellow Team Rogue members I figured I might as well get'r done. The cold front had blown in yesterday and it was just too cold to run outside. I am a wuzz and my lovely husband is sick and I have a feeling I might get whatever he has from him. Between tax season and my training schedule. I don't have time to get sick. Anyway, I rushed out of work as quickly as I could and hit the treadmill. Did an easy run and it did feel good.



PM
Time: 6:45PM
Duration: ~1:00:00
Location - Gold's Gym

Sport: Weight Training
Workout: Body Pump
Distance: N/A
Weather: N/A
People: N/A

This is my favorite class!! I love it. The instructor is awesome. I just love DeeDee. She always pushes us to finish sets, not cheat, and challenges with our weights. When I wasn't running, I would always go to this class but now since I am running more and my work schedule is different I don't have time to make it as much. I can tell too. The class kicked my butt and then some. I was happy to be done and will go back again. My upper body is so weak. I look forward to strengthing it up again.

January 27,2009

Time: 5:30AM
Duration: ~1:40:00
Location - Crestview Loop

Sport: Running
Workout: Easy 10 Miles
Distance: 10 Miles
Weather: Warm and muggy
People: Brenda

I meet up with Team Rogue to do our medium long run. I started with my usual group but for some reason I couldn't get my breathing under control. It could have been that we were going uphill for about 3 miles and it was very muggy outside. After I hit my 1st water stop I finally started to feel alittle better. Most of my running crew was going 12 or more but I didn't want to. Brenda mentioned she wasn't feeling well so she was going to cut it short and run 8. I told her that was fine with me. I didn't want to run by myself and I didn't want her to run by herself either. We started our adventure back. We had some good girl talk about everything and anything. We were only planning on doing 8, but after getting lost a few times it turned into 10.

January 25,2009 - 3M Half-Marathon

Time: 7:00AM

Duration: ~2:02
Location: Race Course - basically from Gateway shopping center to downtown

Sport: Running

Workout: Easy Half-Marathon Race

Distance: ~15 Miles with warm up, race, and cool down

Weather: Cold

People: Matt H. and Foho (for the last 3 miles or so)

Since this is one of my favorite races, I thought I would do it again as an easy run. I found out that Matt was doing it too so asked if we could run together. I haven't seen him in along time and figured this would be a good way for us to catch up on each other's lives. He wanted 2:15 but we had agreed on 2:10 but I said I wanted to do a 2:05 or under. He kinda looked at me and said "yeah right". We seeded ourselves and before we knew it we were off.

We arrived at Mile 1 and our split was 9:45 and he said "that is way to fast. are you trying to kill me?" I then responded "Matt, you are still talking, you are fine so just suck and up and keep going." The miles go by pretty fast and before we knew it we were already at 3 or 4. We saw Foho come running from behind us and asked what her goal was and she said to PR and break 2. I then said she needed to hurry up and pick up the pace. So after a couple of minutes she disappears. Matt and I keep going and the miles seem to be clicking off pretty fast. Before we know it we are at Mile 10. Shortly after mile 11 we run into Foho again. I ask her what the heck is going on. She said she was out of steam so I just told her to latch on to us and we will pull her in. And that is what we did. Every 5 minutes or so I would keep yelling at her to make sure she was behind us. Then around mile 12 Matt picked up the pace and started running ahead of us so we just let him go. Foho and I were about .25 mile behind him the entire time. Foho started to fade and I kept telling her to keep going and she was almost finished. I then decided to drop back behind her and be her personal cheerleader at her the entire last 1.5 miles. I made sure she didn't slow the pace anymore and helped push her to the finish line. Before I knew it we were done.

I didn't get the time that I wanted but I was able to get Matt in 15 minutes faster than what he projected. And I was able to help Foho get a PR. I am very happy about that. Some races are all about having fun and helping other people. Today was one of those days. I had the best time. Thanks Matt and Foho for making my day!! I am very proud of both of you!!

Here are some pictures....

A big thank you goes out to all that came out... Amy and Matt Bush, Dee, Mr. Evans, Andrea, Foho, all of the Rogue Coaches, Josh, Maggie, Joey, Tim, and if I missed anyone sorry. I can't remember everyone. It is actually funny, people around me thought I was pretty popular because sooo many people cheered for me.

January 24,2009

Time: 8:30AM
Duration: ~1:15:00
Location: Lifetime Fitness

Sport: Running
Workout: Total Conditioning
Distance: N/A
Weather: Cold front had just blown in!!
People: Class was full!! and Tim

Since I am doing the race tomorrow I decided to hit the gym instead. I don't know if that was the best idea before the race since I hadn't been to this class in ages. This class is really really hard. It is the toughest class they offer. And since I hadn't been in awhile, I had my butt handed to me on a silver platter. This class kicked my butt and then some. I was hurting and think I will be hurting for a couple of days, especially my upper body.