Summer FUN.

Soooo…I wrote this blog on Sunday night and totally forgot to post, whoops!  Please forgive me, this week at work has been insane!

Man, I am so not ready for summer to be over yet.  I kind of feel like it just started since I FINALLY finished my summer online course, which was a total BEAST.  So now the weight of reading, doing papers and studying is off my chest and I feel FREE!!!  So to celebrate, I did lots of fun stuff this weekend.

Friday I had the day off so that I could fit in my long run before I went away for the weekend.  I went to my fave running trail and had an awesome 18 mile run.  Yes, you are not mistaken I just used the words “18 mile run” and “awesome” in the same sentence.  The WaterFall Glenn loop is 9.6 miles total, and I had 17 on my schedule for the weekend.  So I had a friend do the first loop with me (thanks Coley!) and then headed out on a second loop.  I was feeling good so I just ran the rest of the second loop until I got to 18 and then walked and stretched the rest of the way.  I cannot believe I am already doing up to 18 miles and feeling this good, this is big.  BRING IT CHICAGO!

As expected that “awesome” feeling slowly faded away as my running hangover set in and I became enraged with hunger and exhaustion, typical.  I am trying REALLY hard to not indulge on sweets on my long run days, and be super clean but it has been HARD.  The first thing my body craves is sugar after runs like that, but that does not mean I need to devour sour patch kids and brownies- that is not helping my recovery at all.  But if I don’t deserve sweets after running 18 miles….when DO I deserve it??!  Know what I’m saying??

Anywho, later that night Shain and I went to the drive-in movie theater and saw Two Guns and Wolverine.  Both were really good AND I stayed awake until the end!! BOOM!!!  Even Shain was impressed.   I also would like to point out that he had pizza and Reeses Pieces and did not run 18 miles that day.  How come guys don’t feel bad about stuff like that??!  Not fair, man.

The next day I got a quick upper body workout in and then hit the road to Lake Geneva where a friend of mine was having her Bachlorette party!  Driving down route 47 with my windows down and country music blaring, knowing I am going to go spend a day at the lake makes me SO HAPPY.  We had a great time hanging out on the boat and then hit up downtown Lake Geneva at night. This girl is going to be one beautiful bride, it is kind of ridiculous actually.

Sunday I spend the day with my brother and grandparents at our family cabin, my favorite place in the world.  Family, friends, and no homework.   Yup, totally successful weekend.

Stay blessed in the mess 🙂