Back to the salt mines

After my AWESOME trip to New Orleans *insert many witty comments about beefsticks, puns on the word "root", and shouts of "simmer down now!" all with a Borat accent* I've been having a little trouble getting back in the groove. Sleep has not come easily. Work has been tedious. Exercise has been pathetic (over a 10min/mile average? Puh-lease!). And I had no food in the fridge until yesterday (now it's overflowing with produce, homemade pesto, juice, and cheese.)

In my long hours where I try to stay awake overnight so as to get back on a "normal" schedule, I have spent a lot of time reading old posts on runnersworld.com (and updating my kaboodle, hint hint hint) I have decided this is the rundown of races I need to be in in the next couple years:

Feb 26, 2012: Disney Princess 1/2 marathon. I can visit the Bebe Seester for a week, see HP world (SEVERUS!!!!), escape from the frigid north for a while, and run my first 1/2 marathon! This will be the perfect first because it is sooooooo laid back. The point is more to have fun, enjoy your surroundings and get as many pictures with the characters lining the course as possible. It's going to be awesome-sauce.

May 6, 2012: The Flying Pig 1/2 marathon. My first "serious" 1/2 marathon, this will be hilly where Disney was flat and I assume I'll have to focus much more on finishing without the mutliple breaks where I'll be merely standing around waiting in line for my picture with Pain and Panic (yes I like the minor disney characters)

August 2012: Leading Ladies Marathon in South Dakota. As advertised it's "all women, all downhill." I mapped it, it really is all downhill. So. Awesome. And it appears to wind down through a mountain park, complete with waterfalls. What??? Sign me up! Hopefully there's not a heat wave like this year...

January 2013: Tinkerbell 1/2 Marathon in Anaheim, California. A trip to good ol' Cali in the middle of winter. And faeries. Don't get me started on how much I loooooooooooove faeries.

May 2013: Flying Pig Marathon. My ultimate goal. A "serious" marathon. Although how serious something can be when people dress up like pigs....

Of course some time in the future I also need to run in the NYC marathon and if I can qualify for Boston I'll do whatever it takes to be there too.

Now, not to get injured in the next two years.