FSU v NC State

The Thursday night college football game shown on ESPN was FSU v NC State which was right here in Raleigh. One of Marty's athlete's gave us (awesome) tickets, and with the stadium only 15min from our house, we were there!We hit up the Triangle Seminole Club tailgate first. I was warming up my tomahawk chop after downing some Carolina barbeque.The Super Noles came by so I had to get a photo op with them. They were flexing so hard in this picture,...

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Take 2

Today I found myself in the same predicament as last week - but this time I had a plan: youtube.First, I have to tell you all, dear readers, that I it made me feel much better about myself when I found out that many of you out there also had trouble getting your back wheel on if it had horizontal dropouts. Thanks for commenting.And for those of you who rolled your eyes and called me an incompetent little girl, thanks for not commenting ;)ANYWAYS,...

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NC State Fair

You might be at the North Carolina State Fair ifYou have this conversation:Me: "Whoah. Did you see that lady with the massive mullet?Kari/Alysia: "No. Where?"Me: "Behind us. In the NASCAR jacket."This was year 3 for me at the fair, and once again it didn't disappoi...

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Not the sharpest knife in the drawer

I consider myself to be a fairly intelligent human being. However, last night after spending 30min trying to get my back wheel back onto my bike, I felt like I was the lowest common denominator of intellectual organisms. In other words, the neon tetras in our fish tank were mocking me. I gave them the finger.I can handle most basic bike maintenance issues – pumping tires (training and race wheels), changing flats (not the speediest, but I can get...

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Keeping Myself Busy

I got over my head cold fairly quick. Fairly quickly? Whatever. Went for an easy run last Tuesday and my calf started killing me halfway through - guess it was my body's way of telling me to give it a break. I just can't help myself when it's so nice out. I just want to run!I did swim twice last week. I really like going to Master's, it has nothing to do with actual training at this point. Marty had us do some crazy sets that had wall pushouts, and...

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Got Me A Head Cold

I should've quarantined Marty last we...

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Pic and Video from Last Weekend

I thought this picture came out pretty good of me coming into the finish line. I was thinking of maybe buying it, something we rarely do, because I also like the fact that Marty is in the background.Marty was actually videoing this, so here's his perspective. And special shout out to Benji for saying my name correct...

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Do you wear a watch?

Do you wear a watch? If you do, you are old. Yup, apparently, watches aren't cool and young people don't wear them.This watch is sad, but is he sad because I said he was uncool? Or is he sad because he just realized that only old people wear him? Notice I made the watch male since I'm the blogger. Blogger = woman = cool = not making watch a woman. Or more simply, male = uncool = watch.For what it's worth, I wear a watch. I've worn one since I was...

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A Better Race Report

Fall has fallen here in NC. I have no idea if that is a real saying, but you always hear spring has sprung, so thought it might work. After all the rain earlier in the week we now have cool temps in the morning that give way to beautiful sunny afternoons. I love this time of year – it makes me want to run run run!We had a full weekend – Marty’s Saturday was particularly busy. I did some shopping with Kari where we managed to get a lot of the same...

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