Not good

Well this cant be good that according to my running schedule I am to run 8 miles tomorrow. I havent ran more than 5. And that was a huge stretch. This weather has seriously thrown me off of my plan and I dont like it. It sucks that I wanted to do so well in the Cherry Blossom race and yet I dont know how its going to go. I am weeks away from where I should be and yet I only have 2 weeks left until the race. And even if I could get passed that I only have 6 weeks left until the half marathon and there will be people watching me in that one. Not good, not good at all. Ughh....

St Patricks Day 8K

Results from the race:
1639
557/764
766 Jennifer F 28 Bethesda MD
5K split time: 33:56
Clock Time: 54:32
Chip Time: 53:13
Pace Per Mile: 10:43

First Race of 2010

and I dont know how itll go. This if officially the worst prepared I have ever been for a race before. I have ran probably only 5 times and am now expected to run 5 miles on Sunday. And itll probably be raining too. Great. I ran 3 miles on Thursday and only had to stop once. That was only 3 miles though. The St Patricks Day should be interesting and we'll see how it goes. On a more positive note my A1C came back as 5.6. The lowest I can ever remember. That is an avg glucose level of 108 which is pretty outstanding. Maybe thatll help me this wknd. Anything would help at this point!

Getting Back Into It....

Sunday was the first real run since the half marathon. Mike and I had gone on a run in late November and then I went by myself last Tuesday, but that didnt go so well. I fell after tripping on a cracked sidewalk and scratched up my knees and hands.

But Sunday was better. Mike and I ran together which usually doesnt go well but this time it did. We stopped every so often to walk a little which was much needed. And I purposely wanted to run by Bethesda Naval Hospital b/c President Obama was there on Sun morning for his annual physical. No Barack sightings sadly but it was nice to finally run 3 miles again even if I did have to walk a little bit.

1 week and 6 days until the St Patricks Day 8K!
5 weeks and 6 days until the Cherry Blossom 10 mile race!
8 weeks and 6 days until the Pittsburgh Half Marathon!

Thats a lot of running so I need to pick it up again!

A1C's

August 12, 2004: 6.1%
March 10, 2004: 5.7%
December 30, 2003: 6.4%
May 24, 2002: 6.1%
January 11, 2002: 6.4%
August 10, 2001: 5.6%
April 12, 2001: 5.5%
January 5, 2001: 6.5%

Rehearsal Dinner dress (yes I want it to be white!)

All of these are from Nordstroms and I like them all...The first one is a "Strapless Silk Chiffon dress" by Donna Morgan. The second one is a "JS Boutique Lace Dress." The third one is a "Muse Cutaway Shoulder Jacquard Sheath dress." Love them! But its probably way too early to order these dresses in case I change sizes again!

Bridesmaids

I felt that I wanted to blog my choices for bridesmaids dresses b/c it is getting overhwelming and I want a place where I can see all the options!

This is the first dress that Nicole sent me that I loved. Nicole found out it was style number 5009 and cost 228 dollars. Pretty good! Not sure if that fabric would be flattering on everyone though...




Then I saw this one on a blog site and loved it too. It is from BC/BG but I do think it might be too tight of a dress for some people to feel comfortable plus I cant find it online anymore.



Then there was this one that I fell in love with. I liked the white lace with the merlot color under it. It seemed perfect. Only cost 183 dollars. Then I went to a retail store and they said it was an "old dress" and Id have trouble finding a store that still had it. Fine. Then I looked at it close up and I am not sure I like the daisy like flowers on it or not! But the Merlot fabric piece I ordered came in the mail and I still really liked that color!



Then Leslie found this one and it is relatively cheap at only about 150 dollars. She suggested a fuschia color which was pretty, though I cant find a pic to download! But I still liked the idea before of having two colors or patterns or textures on the dresses. But this is simple too!




Then there was this one another Nicole found at Nordstroms. I have seen this dress in the store before and it didnt look as cool in person but I like the idea of texture again!



Nicole found this dress at Nordstroms which is great. Plus I could put the same flower from my dress on each of the bridesmaid dresses. Still not sure plus I dont like how this dress doesnt come in sizes below an 8 and I would worry that they would run out of dresses before everyone could get one even if we found it at another place.



Nicole also found this Vera Wang dress which I also like. The color is great and its super girly looking and I think it would look good on all the girls. I dont know about getting a dress online though when people cannot try it on and we wont see it before hand. We shall see.




And I found this one that I like a lot. Nicole thinks it would look the best with my dress as they are both "airy" and girly. It does come in rose and silver too!