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Okay, I am working on this whole 10 min/mile concept and I just cannot get my mind around how I am going to do this for 13 or so miles straight! Is this normal behavior? Can you tell I am nervous? Have I mentioned that I don't like to run? Anything for T. I guess.
Well, I am now going to start posting pictures from our awesome trip back east this summer. Where else is anyone going to see them? Most of all, it is so that L and F can see the pictures that we took when we were with them. Out of all of the places that we visited, that was the best time of the whole trip, especially since it has been somewhere in the neighborhood of six years since I have seen L!
Now, part of our trip was in New York City as well. You can imagine how stoked I was to finally make it there and to finally go to all of these places that I have only ever heard of! So, on our 'free' day, I made a list of all the places that I wanted to eat something from and my wonderful husband took a picture of me in front or inside of all of them. By the end of the day we made it to about four places. First up was taking the Staten Island Ferry as it is free. We got a lovely view of the city while riding with commuters and other cheap tourists. That's not me in the picture by the way. So, after that, we hopped off and ran to the subway (which we loved to ride) and took the next subway headed for Brooklyn. I knew that Jacques Torres has a chocolate shop there and well, he is awesome. So, we headed out that direction. When we got off of the subway, we still had quite a walk ahead of us. We walked underneath the Brooklyn Bridge and down into a cool little area that is being rejuvinated or the term I heard one too many times on this trip, regentrified. It was cool and very artsy. We made it to the shop and bought a bunch of chocolates that I said I would share and then ate all of. I also had a great almond filled pastry that was extra sticky. It was great. Maybe it was great just because I was caught up in the moment but, it was really good regardless. Next we were headed back towards the city, as if this wasn't city enough...and headed for Amy's Breads. We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and I think that you can tell by the look on my face that I was not stoked. It was SOOOO HOT. Not just hot but humid and that is really hard on a girl from Humboldt. looks as if I am ready to pass out! Can you tell? It was like 89 degrees and who knows what the humidity was but sweat was dripping off of us like crazy! Okay, so we made it over the bridge and down into the city again. We decided to look for the bread bakery and after walking up and down the blocks and not finding it we were getting a little frustrated. We stopped into the dry cleaners because that was the address that we were supposed to find the bakery and we found that it no longer was at that address! Duh...So, luckily, just down the road a bit was Francois Payard's place and holy smokes, was it worth the wait! We walked in and completely felt self conscious but maybe that's just me all of the time. Everywhere you looked was something fantastic as far as pastries go.

Okay, I am having problems posting pictures in the right spots so this is all I am going to do for now.
I have not run for one week straight! I am going to suffer tonight. I think that it is a bad sign when I tell my family that I am going to run this half marathon and they all look at me and tell me I am crazy...is there something to that?

Well, that's all I have for now...More later!