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Ready for the Weekend from This Weekend

May 4, 2012 by Life is a Run · 2 Comments

Does that make sense? It does in our minds! Ha, this weekend is full of busy, so we are ready for the weekend break from our busy weekend. Now does it make sense? 🙂 But keep in mind most of the busy is all stuff we will have a lot of fun doing!

You might know that we are kind of taking a break or maybe more accurately a step back from doing SO many races right now. Summer will be here in no time and everyone knows that summer is always busy, right? Teal is about to be graduating from grad school then wrapping up another school year with her students and this summer brings about a wedding for one of her best friends. Which means there are wedding events to attend!

Bride-to-be, Sommer & Teal dressed up as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs a couple Halloween’s ago

Beth is still trucking along at work, basically has a side job doing social media for a small local business and is trying to plan her wedding! There are so many things to be doing!

What does that mean for us this weekend?

Teal will be Bachelorette Partyin’ it up! See how that warrants a recovery weekend from the weekend?

Beth will be participating in the Dallas Running Club‘s White Rock ‘n’ Roll 10 mile race on Saturday! Need to burn those calories before she and Brent are off to do a cake tasting! Neither one of us have ever done a 10 mile race and honestly it’s starting to get HOT in Texas! Hopefully White Rock Lake can provide some sort of a breeze!

So there is no pre-existing goal for this race, but maybe one will be set out on the course! Otherwise hopefully there will be fun and happy running going on! 🙂 Oh, and should you be running White Rock ‘n’ Roll tomorrow and are still needing to pick up your race packet – Beth is working the 4-7pm packet pickup shift at Luke’s Locker Plano today! So be sure and say hi! Or you know if you need some new running gear stop by that time and say hi!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 10 mile race, Bachelorette, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Dallas Running Club, grad school, Luke's Locker, Plano, races, social media, summer, wedding, White Rock Lake, White Rock n Roll

April Report Card…dun dun dun and May GOALS!

May 1, 2012 by Life is a Run · 12 Comments

We said this last month too, but seriously…May? How?

Ok, enough with that here’s how we did in April –

Teal:
1. Successfully complete the BluePrint Cleanse. This will start Monday April 2nd and end Tuesday April 10th. A+: This went very very well and I want to do it again. You can check out the recap here for more information. I honestly felt wonderful and I wish I could do if for life because I had almost no knee pain! I also managed to keep a total of 5lbs off this month which if you have been following is a huge success for me!

2. Complete one hill and one speed training per week, in place of regular runs or cardio. B+: I did 3 hill workouts, missed one week for some reason I can’t remember and also did speed intervals on the treadmill in the mornings! Other cardio included stairs and cardio classes at the gym (I’ve totally branched out!!)

3. I have one paper left for Grad School that is technically not due until the middle of May but I want to finish it and not procrastinate. Also I would like to finish up with all of my hours before the end of the month so I can order, submit, and file everything early to be ready for graduation! A++: DONE and DONE!! I actually submitted my paper on the 30th but it is done! T-minus 11 days until Graduation. I can’t wait!!
4. Earn my 75th class yoga band. F: Hey something has to give right?? I only went to yoga 5 times! Whoops.

Beth:

1. Please don’t hate me, but I’m going for lose 5lbs again. Third time is a charm right? F, I trimmed down the length of the goal this time around for the recapping. 🙂 But I was going to do the advocare cleanse. I did not do the advocare cleanse. I realized I had not factored in a wedding I would be at during the only Saturday of the month where the cleanse fit. You might be thinking, well, Beth just suck it up and eat clean at the wedding. Have you ever been to Babe’s? If not then think chicken fried steak, fried chicken, etc and that’s what we had. Anyways as to the weight lose…yah, I’m still at the same weight. Oops? At least it’s consistent?

2. Save the Dates – have them printed, addressed (myself) and sent off to wedding guests before this month is over! B- Ok, so I’ve only seen Save the Dates as a PDF, BUT I was at the mercy of couple other people’s time that are just giving me their free time. I had all my parts done (how I wanted them to look a.k.a. my own design and samples of my handwriting) and hopefully I will have them very, very soon! I can’t wait for people to see them!!!

3. Stadium workouts once a week. B+ I did 3 out 4 weeks of stadium workouts! I missed last week due to going out of town and trying to fit everything into my schedule before my long weekend out of Dallas. Excuse? Haha, yah…..

4. Prepare food for each week on Sunday nights this month. I’ll have to do this for at least the 10 day cleanse, but to help me get serious with my food and losing weight this has to be done every week! B+ This is another where I did 3 out of 4 weeks of this. Two of the weeks I made these tasty enchiladas which I’ll share with you in another post!

the colorful veggies for my latest pre-made food!

As far as the extra monthly goals (weekly hill runs & read two books a month) I have going on for myself! I attend the hill workouts every week in April with the NTX Runners! Makes them soo much better to run with company! As far as books I had some makeup work to do for my reading in March and I didn’t quite catch up! I did read The Paris Wife byPaula McLain and The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. I’m not ashamed – sometimes you gotta mix up the serious with some cheese! And I’m currently three-fourths of the way through The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow by Krystyna Chiger.

Ok, and let’s look forward to our May goals –

Teal:

1. Lose 5 more lbs. I have tons of motivation right now because I will be on the beach June 6-11 for one of my best friend’s weddings in the Dominican Republic!

2. Ok, I’m just going to change this yoga goal. The goal is to go 3 times per week. After looking back on the last 2 months I think this is doable and still a stretch. I had a 6 time month and a 5 time month so hopefully just 3 a week will be a big enough push that is actually time possible!

3. Stop skipping my morning workouts. My gym buddy and I got a little off track due to crazy lives and schedules. The goal is to go all 5 mornings. I had done this for over a year so it’s doable, just need to get back in the routine! I have been going at night more, but it’s not as easy to do and gets in the way of my yoga goal! Domino effect-boooo!!

4. Be nicer! I am not evil, but stress has taken over this month with preparing for graduation, looking and interviewing for counseling jobs, planning showers and events, tax season at my dad’s, state testing for schools, blah blah blah. I have NOT been the picture of niceness at all and have become way more annoyed at things than normal. I am not sure how I am going to actually do this or prove it, but I’ll come up with something and let you know how it goes at the end of May!

Beth:

1. I’m still chasing those 5 pounds to lose! Ha, one day…one. freakin’. day. I will be able to say I did it so. This goal is sticking!

2. Survive my first 10 mile race! I’m currently freaked out by this distance since I’ve never raced it and it is getting hotter down here in Texas!

3. My wedding related goal is super vague, but the goal is to have at least 3 items on my checklist marked off and report back to you what I’ve accomplished them!

4. I want to continue on with my preparing food for the week on Sunday’s goal, but to make it different the goal here is to find two new recipes this month and make them! Must add variety to what I’ve been doing!

Joint Goal:

We will be participating in #runchat’s May challenge which is pretty much to run a different route, a new trail or try a race you have never done before. For more information please visit the #runchat site.

Filed Under: Goals Tagged With: 10 mile race, Babe's, Babe's chicken, BluePrint Cleanse, cardio, grad school, graduation, hill run, holocaust, Krystyna Chiger, may challenge, Nicholas Sparks, NTX Runners, Paula McLain, races, run chat, running, Save the Dates, speed training, stadium workouts, The Girl in the Green Sweater, The Lucky One, The Paris Wife, wedding, wedding checklist, yoga

February Report Card & March Goals

March 1, 2012 by Life is a Run · 5 Comments

It’s that time! Here is how we did on our February goals…

Teal:

1. Let’s try this damn weight/fat loss thing again – I’ll keep it at 4lbs. Wish me luck, perseverance, and calmness through the frustration. I know this will fix itself eventually! F-: not sure how it is calorically possible but I have gained weight this month- that is all I can say about that. What fun.

2. Paint my bedroom and hang the pictures – I have had the paint and the frames for our prints since the end of December and they have tortured me ever since. I am actually going to give myself a B on this even though I didn’t do it BECAUSE – my brother moved out and I managed to get all that mess cleaned, the second bedroom organized and cleaned out, his room cleaned out and ready to be painted, the garage is free of his stuff, the laundry room was cleaned out from the dogs, and my house is generally in awesome condition. No paint yet but hey, that’s why we have March right?

3. Read about and become more knowledgeable about Clean Eating, general good nutrition and Gluten. I have purchased Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis and Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. The goal is to read both this month. B: Read and finished Wheat Belly- I’ll give you a recap later in the month. Very interesting! I am only half way through Good Calories Bad Calories because it is VERY hard to read. I almost feel dumb reading it because I have to keep re-reading pages to understand what I just read- if had I known how hard it was I would have just read it a different month but it is very informative so I will finish. God help me!

4. Make the foam roller my best friend and roll at least once a day, and complete ALL given Physical Therapy for my foot which includes stretching/tennis ball rolling at breakfast, lunch, and before bed and ice 1-2 times per day. A: I completed all therapy given and I am feeling better, although the 13.1 on Sunday did hurt, I still iced immediately! I did not ice 1-2 times a day but only because I felt like the therapy was working and ice was not as needed as before! I foam roll constantly and am making progress!

5. Oh and on a “Non- Actual goal thing listed” I did Pass my Counselor Certification Test that I took the day of the Hot Chocolate Run that I had to miss!! So A+++ on that!

Beth:

1. HILLS! Do them once a week – for real this time! D-: Haha, I did them twice! Y’all what is my deal? Maybe I should make this stop being a goal and just know that each month I’ll tell you what I did hill-wise?? What do you think?

2. Wedding Schtuff – Part A: Get outfits settled on (for both of us) & take engagement pictures! Part B: Finish two of my three registries! <—Just want those things done and over with! Ha, is that a bad way to phrase it? A-: well, going into this month I had most of my outfits already, but Brent did not. We spent two Saturdays shopping for him because in general he just needed some new clothes and shoes. He starts a new job next week which is part of the need but he just needed new pants and shirts to add to his work mix and we made it happen. We took engagement pictures!! My dad is a photographer as well as a freakin’ awesome lawyer and he spent almost 4 hours with us one Sunday taking our pictures all over Dallas. We also spent a few hours one Sunday starting and completing our registry at Crate & Barrel. That was the only registry we have complete, but I am still proud! Another wedding thing to check off is we have a Best Man! We had a planned dinner with Brent’s friend, his wife and their son and got our first person in Brent’s side of the wedding party! So I feel like I still deserve an A range grade because a lot of weekend days this month were taking up with wedding related items!

3. Lose 5 pounds! I’m taking engagement pictures this month, so a few pounds off and working towards a smaller weight for upcoming races needs to happen! F: Yah, I am at the exact same weight. Ha. In all honesty, I meant to go get a scale to be more conscious of this and to meet my goal, but uhhh, yah that never happened. Oopsie??

4. Clean the craft/guest/whatever room! My sister and I have a guest room at our house and we each kind of have half of it to ourselves and then a teeny tiny twin bed sits in the middle of it. Ha, we are both former, big-time scrapbookers so we have got crafts galore in there! This will be my next room I conquer! F: Nope, just did not have the time for this! 🙁 If I’m going to get something on this scale done it has to be on the weekend and all the weekends this month were FAR too full to make this happen.

Joint goal:

5. Both participate in #FabAbFeb Well, Teal finished the challenge even if some days she doubled up on days she still finished it! Beth on the other hand missed the last week of it.

And now it’s time for March’s goals…..dun dun dun!

Teal

1. Paint Bedroom and quest room for real this time. Spring break should make this possible!

2. Survive my 2 week break from running and cardio by not cheating. I am going to give my body a true rest. I think it is overworked and is partially to blame for the plateau of weight-loss, my injury and that it is not fully gone, and from being tired from having 2 jobs and grad school. The break will be hard because rest is really not part of my vocabulary but it’s a needed part of life. Must get better.

3. Yoga 12 times this month. This will be how I survive the “rest” from running/cardio. Low impact, restorative, and a good way to focus on flexibility.

4. Finish Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Beth

1. Run a sub 2:00 hour half marathon at Rock ‘n’ Roll Dallas!

2. Lose 5 pounds. Seriously, y’all!! I need to get SERIOUS about take some pounds off for my wedding!

3. Get a caterer for the wedding. You thought this one went away didn’t you? Well, I was all on track, got one approved by my venue and haven’t heard back from him after our initial phone call about my homes and dreams of wedding food. I’ve chosen to take that as a sign and look elsewhere just need to setup tastings!

4. Attend 3 to 4 yoga classes a week. You’re probably like whaa?? You yoga all the time! Well, technically I don’t totally have yoga goals like I did for all of 2011 and I took 2 weeks off when I hit my 200 and let me tell you my body knew it! So I want to see how I do with 3-4 times a week for a month where this blog holds me accountable!

5. Update my handwriting/calligraphy website. It needs a MAJOR change starting with a new theme that allows for a real blog inside the website. Change is a coming!

It should also be noted that I haven’t given up on my hills every week, but I feel like that’s annoying to keep putting it as a goal and not mastering it. And another note would be at the beginning of the year I gave myself a goal of reading 24 books this year which this has really been a goal of mine for a couple years now. I got close one year with 20. This are two things I kind of want to keep up to date with in these posts but make them different from the things I try to achieve that vary each month. Does that make sense? Can you handle that? I’m going to be busy this month!

We will see you guys on the flip side of this month with how we did! 🙂 Wish us luck!

Filed Under: Goals, Life Tagged With: calligraphy, caterer, Crate & Barrel, Dr. William Davis, engagement pictures, foam roller, Gary Taubes, Good Calories and Bad Calories, Half Marathon, handwriting, Hot Chocolate Run, lawyer, organization, photographer, physical therapy, reading, registries, Rock 'n' Roll Dallas, running, running hills, wedding, weight loss, Wheat Belly, yoga

January Report Card & February Goals

February 1, 2012 by Life is a Run · 9 Comments

It’s that time to give you the good & bad of our January goals!

Teal:

1. Attend a minimum of 10 yoga classes at Sunstone. This is big time for me! I only had 25 classes last year. I took a huge break! : A+ Crushed this! As of 1/31 I have attended 16 classes!

2. Complete one extra day of weight training on my own. I train with Will two days a week, but that is all the weight training I do. I am scared of that side of the gym when I am alone, so I am going to buck up and start a progression of doing weights on my own. Not that I am getting rid of Will, I just need to stop being a baby. C+: I only did my “extra” weight work out twice in 4.5 weeks but definitely feel more comfortable going to that side of the gym on my own.

3. Lose 4 pounds. I am stuck! I hate it and want to be unstuck! F: besides losing my cleanse weight to get me back to my “normal weight” I technically have only lost .5lbs according to the scale I use with my trainer- oh how I love being stuck…

4. Read a book for pleasure! Graduate school has killed any fun reading that I once did. I have chosen to read Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison. A-: Well, I finished literally today (or shall is say night) and the only reason I finished was because it was “due” today for the goal- I did however read another book in between this about food and wellness, so bonus points for that! And PS- I really did not like this book 😉

Beth:

1. Complete 200 yoga classes. The very end of January 2011 was when I started yoga and my goal all along was to complete 200 in one year. I broke that goal into 50 classes every 3 months. As of this morning I have 29 more classes to go! A+: Might have had to do 3 classes in one day to obtain this goal, but I DID IT!!! 200 yoga classes in 1 year! The best part was I took my 200th class with my friend that got me started in yoga and went to that very first class with me, so she also got to go to my 200th class with me! Shout out to the awesome @HeadPantsNow!

200 wristband bling from Sunstone Yoga

2. Do a hill workout every week. If I blew off a day in my training schedule it was always hills, and I know I will benefit from doing them SO much. C: I only did two hill workouts…..

3. Organize my room! I love organization, but for the past year I feel like I’m running from one thing to the next. All the organizing I once did has gone out the window, and it really makes me sad that I now resemble a messy person. A+: There was one weekend in our 10 day cleanse and that Saturday to distract myself I CLEANED! Then it got messy again and I finally got the last bits organized. I took before and after pictures, but y’all I REALLY do like cleanliness so I’m totally embarrassed to show these….

Before

Got rid of clothes, old magazines, bagged old running shoes to take to local running store & threw away a lot!

Final product...and you can see I still have one itty bitty pile on the floor :-/

4. Find a caterer for my wedding! This is the next big item I want to get crossed of my wedding to do list! B+: My goal was to either have it completed or be well on the way towards having a caterer. My venue has a preferred vendor list and the person I want to use is not on that list, so they had to get approval to be my caterer. My venue has approved the caterer, I’ve had a lengthy phone call with the caterer, reviewed menus of their’s and given what we want and don’t want. As of now I am waiting to get a potential menu or two then schedule a tasting!

We each have one last goal that we are both doing –

5. Complete a 10 day Advocare cleanse. A+: You all know that though because we did a recap a couple weeks ago!

We are both pretty proud of ourselves, obviously there are areas to work on and we will keep on working! With that said here is what’s on tap for February for us:

Teal:

1. Let’s try this damn weight/fat loss thing again- I’ll keep it at 4lbs. Wish me luck, perseverance, and calmness through the frustration. I know this will fix itself eventually!

2. Paint my bedroom and hang the pictures – I have had the paint and the frames for our prints since the end of December and they have tortured me ever since.

Beth:

1. HILLS! Do them once a week – for real this time!

3. Lose 5 pounds! I’m taking engagement pictures this month, so a few pounds off and working towards a smaller weight for upcoming races needs to happen!

We are once again doing a joint goal this month! We have decided to….

5. Both participate in #FabAbFeb:

Overall, Teal feels like if she took these grades home she’d be grounded. What do you think? And Beth is pretty happy with her grades but is ready to hit the mark in hills class. What do you think?

Filed Under: Goals, Life Tagged With: advocare, caterer, clean, clean eating, cleanse, Dr. William Davis, foam roller, Gary Taubes, gluten, Good Calories and Bad Calories, hill workouts, John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye, pounds, preferred vendors, Sunstone, venue, wedding, weights, Wheat Belly, yoga

Wine, Wedding & What Not

January 19, 2012 by Life is a Run · 6 Comments

So from our Wordless Wednesday post yesterday if you assumed we had a FUN Saturday night at our wine dinner party then your assumption was correct! 🙂

Pretty much everyone that came has already made an appearance on this blog, so if you’ve been hanging around the LIAR blog [yes, we just abbreviated our name, ha] their names might sound familiar to you!

Beth, Heidi, Teal, Kate & Mandy

Doubt we could have gotten them to pose for a picture together so we got the boys in deep discussion 🙂 L to R: Bitner, Brent, Michael, Josh & Brian (sorry it's your back) oh and cute little Meranda!

Also, please remember this was the day after our cleanse! 🙂 We had a lovely dinner with crockpot roast, twice baked potatoes, asparagus salad, a pasta dish with butternut squash and nuts. But special mention should be given to the dee-lish appetizers we started with pears & melon topped with prosciutto and a balsamic glaze and tomatoes & mozzarella topped with the same balsamic glaze. Are we making your mouth water yet?

Most of the food

It was a wonderful night of good wine, good food and great friends! Now we just need to plan the next Wine Dinner Party! If you’re a wine lover here were all the wines we had to choose from that night. Ha 🙂 Also, if you remember back in October when Teal went to Sonoma for the weeekend well then she brought the 2007 Allure Meritage from Williamson Wines and 2007 Topel Pinot Syrah both from that trip!

The wine dinner was also a perfect night for Beth to tackle another wedding item – get a flower girl! Mandy & Josh have THE most precious little girl – bias? No way! She is! Ha If it’s possible for someone to adore a child before she’s even born then that’s exactly how it was for Beth. Little Meranda was the first kid born to one of Beth’s best friends, so that probably has something to do with adoring her before she was born. But she’s going to be the cutest little flower girl in Beth’s wedding! By the time the wedding is here Meranda will be 3 years old! Oh, how time has flown by!

Beth has also asked two more ladies to be apart of her big day as Bridesmaids! Last week she sent flowers to her soon to be sis-in-law and it actually was perfect time! Lindsay had kind of had a crummy week and hopefully she meant it when she said the arrival of the flowers Friday afternoon and asking her to be apart of the wedding made her day! So lucky to be gaining an awesome sister-in-law who is the same age! Just a couple nights ago Beth asked her sister-in-law Tiffany to be a Bridesmaid. Tiffany has officially been apart of the Lynch family for not quite a year and a half, but it feels like so much longer! She just fits right in! The fun thing is that she and Beth are the same age too! Beth, her sister, Kate and Tiffany try to once a month go out for sushi and it just so happened that the sister sushi night was coming up, so Beth knew that’s when she’d ask Tiffany.

A fun fact about Tiffany is that she’s a quarter Japanese. Since fortune cookies are actually based on a Japanese cracker even though you mainly get them from a Chinese restaurant they are originally Japanese [looked it up on wikipedia, people!] Beth knew that’s how she had to ask her!

Beth's brother, Scott and sister-in-law, Tiffany

The same night as sister sushi night Beth asked if Tiffany if her oldest boy, Wesley could be the Ring Bearer. Wesley did such a good job at Scott & Tiffany’s wedding that it’s like he’s a pro already! Bridesmaid dresses have also been picked for the most part! 🙂 Are those allowed to be shown? Haha, the Bridesmaids get their choice of style and Beth picked the designer, color and fabric for each dress! You are not going to get an update on if there is or is not a caterer for the wedding because there are still 12 days left in January to work on that one. 🙂

Have you noticed we are a little obsessed with the diptic app for putting multiple pictures into one picture?

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: Bridesmaid, Bridesmaid dresses, crockpot, Flower Girl, fortune cookies, How to Ask Bridesmaids to be in your wedding, Meritage, Pinto Syrah, Sonoma, sushi, Topel, wedding, Williamson Wines, wine, wine dinner

New Year, New Goals

January 2, 2012 by Life is a Run · 7 Comments

Last year [how is 2011 already last year??] we started out the year with a goal for the whole year and that really worked out for us! That worked out for us for 2011, but if we are going to push ourselves and we are going to grow even more then we need to shake things up for 2012. You might also see some minor changes to the look of the blog due to the new year and our new goals this month!

So to start 2012 we are going to try out monthly goals!

Teal:

1. Attend a minimum of 10 yoga classes at Sunstone. This is big time for me! I only had 25 classes last year. I took a huge break!

3. Lose 4 pounds. I am stuck! I hate it and want to be unstuck!

4. Read a book for pleasure! Graduate school has killed any fun reading that I once did. I have chosen to read Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison.

(source)

Beth:

2. Do a hill workout every week. If I blew off a day in my training schedule it was always hills, and I know I will benefit from doing them SO much.

4. Find a caterer for my wedding! This is the next big item I want to get crossed of my wedding to do list!

We each have one last goal that we are both doing –

5. Complete a 10 day Advocare cleanse.

Teal is actually an Advocare distributor. Checkout her website and/or order from her here. She has done their 10 day cleanse two times before and saw weight lose results each time. After all the eating over the holidays and as Teal mentioned before being stuck (not that Beth doesn’t feel the same way) we thought this would be the perfect way to jump start the new year. Do a cleanse and start afresh. As of Wednesday, January 4th we will start the cleanse and our last day will be Friday, January 13th. We will go ahead and update you sooner than the end of the month on our cleanse, but these are our goals! We’ll check back with you at the end of the month and go from there!