Food Coma(s) and Christmas Cheer!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

(A Day Late lol)

I hope everyone ate as much as they could yesterday!

I know I did :)

I really love this time of the year.

(So what if I said that about the fall too?)

Can't a girl love ALL the seasons/holidays of the year?!

Good.

Because I really do!

Thanksgiving.

A holiday to spend with your family, to be thankful, eat as much as you can, sleep, watch football, play games, and drink! Once you're old enough too!
This year we ate 2 dinners!

However, I did run my own 5K yesterday morning to prepare!

But man. My stomach is still trying to recover.
How could you not eat like 10 5 rolls AFTER dinner?!
No way alcohol was involved. Nope.

Here are some sweet turkey day photos w/ the D'Alessio's :)

Note: 2 rolls have been confirmed to be eaten.

Yes that's a Cribbage board on the top right!
My family LOVES playing games on the holidays :)

Speaking of Holidays. Now that Turkey Day is over...
CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE!

My favorite holiday of all :)
How could you not love Christmas Time?
It's "The most wonderful time of the year!"
It's a holiday where generosity and happiness are in the air.
Singing carols. Decorating the Tree. Wrapping presents. Baking awesome cookies. Snow (hopefully). Cuddling up with your love. The smell of pine trees.
I could literally go on and on :)
But you get the point 

So natrually.
I spend Black Friday decorating our tree :)

Dear Thanksgiving,

I love you as a holiday.

But as soon as you're over.......

It's time to get ready for Christmas!!

And Gingerbread Dunkin Donuts coffee.

And peppermint mocha flavored everything. 

And an eggnog shake from Mickey D's.

We'll talk again after Christmas,
Brittany

Does your family have any fun Turkey Day traditions?

First 10K!

First off.

I'm sorry.

I'm a horrible blogger.

I don't know if I can even call myself a blogger anymore!

But I'm doing it anyway

So I'm pretty sure my last post I mentioned that I was training hard for a 10K.

Well....

I did it!

All that hard work finally paid off! 

I followed a pretty general training schedule that I found on the web.

Probably not the best one.

But hey.

It worked!

 Wondering how I did?

I wanted to be faster than 1:20:00....

Then I got thinking last week...

"Shoot. I think I could actually pull off 1:15:00!"

(After running 5 miles in 59:11)

...

......

........

Final time: 1:12:15

BAM!

Holy shiznat!

 I really could not believe it!

And!

I ran the WHOLE thing!

6.2 miles.

Just like that.

wow.

:-D

   

 And I couldn't have done it without the help/motivation/answering all of my dumb questions from this awesome girl and my just as equally awesome work paht-nah!

They were soooo awesomely awesome that they met me around my last mile and ran with me to the finish line! 

That extra motivation was desperately needed!

For my first 10K it was VERY hilly.

And I knew that upon signing up.

But didn't know it was going to be torture that bad. 
And the worst part was there was no service so I had no pandora to keep my mind off of my breathing like a wild woman deep breathing!
I tried my hardest to do negative splits. But it didn't happen. Still happy with my times though! And I finished strong :)

 

But.
It's over.
I kicked that 10K's butt.
And I feel awesome about it!

Look at the awesome sweatshirt we got!

 
I can't wait to get back out there and kill my PR.
:)
Interval training next on the agenda!

But first.
Some Chicken Stir Fry I whipped up tonight

And some wine while I blog :)

Ahh. This is the good life.