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Weekend recap

Friday night was my Opening Ceremony party. And now I remember why it's easier to host on a Saturday or Sunday. There was a lot of running around to get everything ready after work before everyone came over, but K was around to help so that made things easier.

 


Right before I left work on Friday I saw a blog post from a friend in Olympic-land that had an Opening Ceremony drinking game. It was hilarious and we loosely followed that while watching NBC.

Saturday was all Olympics all the time...except for my 30 minute run. Had to get some sort of shake out in. I hadn't run in a week and we were scheduled to do a 10 miler during the Rhythm and Blues Half Marathon Sunday. Oh and brunch in the am with a few ambassadors and some of their friends. We went to Backstreet Cafe and it was really nice. It was good to meet and hang out with some new people. Hopefully we will do it again soon.


Sunday. At least this half started at 8:30 am. Or it was supposed to. We ended up starting 10 minutes late for some reason. I didn't think I would like doing my 10 miler inside a half marathon, but it wasn't so bad. There were tons of people around and lots of water stations. While it was not my best run, it wasn't so bad either. Especially for only running about five times in the past three weeks. Once Austin is over, I plan to really train for DC. We'll see how that goes.

After the run was brunch. Brunch is the best. Especially when there are 99 cent mimosas. Yep, a mimosa for under $1.  And my second eggs benedict of the weekend. No wonder my clothes are starting to not fit right. Once Austin is over, I need to get back on the healthy train and start cooking again. Especially since we then went to Chuy's for dinner last night. Ugh. But so good.


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