A Monday That’s a Friday
Mondays are always hard… except when they are also a Friday! I have tomorrow off of work for Veteran’s Day and I’m really liking this one day work thing already! ha
This weekend was a great one. Henri and I squeezed a lot of fun, relaxation and tasty food into 48 hours!
Saturday morning I had a 13 long run tempo on the schedule and Henri had a track workout. On his way to the track Henri dropped me off at the starting line of the Boston Marathon so that I could run my favorite long run route along the marathon course to Wellesley. 3 mile warm-up, 8 miles @ tempo pace which ended up being 6:21 pace, 2.5 mile cool-down for 13.5 miles @ 6:40 average pace. It was a killer workout but it really felt great to get my legs turning over on a long run and was a BIG confidence booster for the half I have coming up in December.
As soon as I entered the Wellesley Center Henri drove past me and I hopped in the car so that we could park, change into dry clothes and grab coffee & breakfast before making the drive home. We’ve got a serious love affair going on with Wellesley. It’s basically our dream town… except for the price tag :/
First holiday cup of the season = pure happiness!
The rest of Saturday was full of watching the Manchester City game, getting chores and errands done, homemade enchiladas for dinner and watching A Million Ways to Die in the West with a bowl of air pop popcorn and dark chocolate M&M’s. Such a boy movie but definitely funny!
Sunday was a much needed rest day after 13 straight days of running but my body was up and ready to go at 6:00am – figures. 🙂 I took advantage of the situation and made a nice big breakfast! Cinnamon rolls (from the can – nothing fancy), bacon, hash browns AND eggs! 
We had to fuel up because next we headed to Franklin Park to watch my sister race her first 6K cross country race. She killed it and ran 23:40! She ran a smart race and looked so strong at the finish too – ROCKSTAR!
Immediately after the meet Henri took me on a day date to the New England Aquarium. He’s never been and it’s been years since I went so it was really fun to see all the fishies and then walk around the city a little bit. My faves were Myrtle the Turtle (she’s 95ish years old!), 
the sharks, 
and OF COURSE the penguins!
We rounded out the weekend by watching the LA Galaxy in the MLS playoffs… if you can’t tell we’re getting really into soccer over here! I blame Henri 😉
And some running randoms for your Monday…
You HAVE to read this article about Meb – gotta love him!
ProCompression just announced their November sock of the month. How perfect would these be for your local Turkey Trot??
And last but definitely NOT least – my athlete and fellow blogger Kristina ran a major half marathon PR yesterday by 24 MINUTES! Check out her race recap HERE and give her a virtual high 5!!
What’s your favorite holiday drink from Starbucks?
Did anyone race this weekend or have a big race coming up?? I know the Philly Marathon is getting close!
Tastiest thing you ate this weekend???