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Half Marathon Playlist

January 12, 2012 · by Ari · 5 Comments

This morning I woke up at 3:30am convinced today was Sunday. The good news is, I woke up excited and happy and pumped. Then I realized it wasn’t Sunday and thought it was Saturday. Then I realized it was only Thursday, was totally bummed and went back to sleep. I actually ended up getting my first decent night’s sleep in days and it felt so wonderful! I spent a good portion of my morning being lazy before heading out for my last training run.

Two miles is a weird distance. I started, and then it was time to turn around. I felt so confused. I felt good, but not like yesterday where I felt fantastic. I’m nervous. Did I mention that? Taper week is weird. I know they say “trust in your training”, but how do I know that my training is trustworthy? I mean for the most part, I made it up, and this is my first time at this so perhaps my training totally sucked. Or on the other hand, perhaps I am so unaware of how amazing it was and I will bust out my half marathon in record time! Hah. Positive thoughts, right? 🙂

Last night, I spent hours took no time at all creating the perfect half marathon playlist. Seriously, record time. I am so fast at everything these days 🙂 I tried to be smart and figure out how to import the list to my blog, but that’s a little too high tech for me, so now I will–in record time!–type it all out instead. You can judge my music. It’s okay. Sometimes I do too,

  1. Rockin’ Robin by Michael Jackson
  2. I Want it That Way by The Backstreet Boys
  3. Fighter by Christina Aguilera
  4. Sisters are Doin’ it for Themselves by The Eurythmics (suggested by Sylvi)
  5. Paper Planes by M.I.A
  6. Summer Girls by LFO (to remind me of camp, Mac and Sylvi)
  7. Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root
  8. Dirrty by Christina Aguilera
  9. MmmBop by Hanson (to remind me that I have awesome taste in music)
  10. Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia Keys
  11. 96,000 from In the Heights (suggested by Heather)
  12. The Story by Sara Ramirez
  13. Foundations by Kate Nash
  14. Baby by Justin Bieber (to remind me that I’m really mature)
  15. Jen Doesn’t Like Me Anymore by Less Than Jake
  16. It’s Your Wedding Day from The Wedding Singer
  17. Kiss That Girl by Kate Nash
  18. Come On Eileen by Save Ferris (to remind me of Bethy)
  19. Stand Out from A Goofy Movie (suggested by Heather and Megs)
  20. Born This Way by Lady Gaga
  21. Let’s Hear it for the Boy from Footloose
  22. Defying Gravity from Wicked (because I don’t actually hate it as much as the musical theatre snob in me pretends to)
  23. Turn Me On by David Guetta and Nicki Minaj
  24. Life’s a Happy Song from The Muppets
  25. Aint No Mountain High Enough from Sister Act (how could this playlist NOT include Sister Act?!)
  26. The Edge of Glory by Lady Gaga
  27. Brand New Day from The Wiz
  28. La Vie Boheme B from Rent
  29. 121 from A Goofy Movie (suggested by Heather and Megs)
  30. Blackout from In The Heights
  31. Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
  32. Set Fire to the Rain by Adele
  33. Proud Mary by Ike and Tina Turner (to remind me of my favorite spin teacher who is 50, ran a marathon and 2 days later taught spin–I want to be her when I grow up!)
  34. Footloose from Footloose
  35. ABC by Michael Jackson

That’s about 2 hours and 22 minutes (whoa lots of 2s!) of music. The hope is that I will finish to Proud Mary because how awesome would that be? But Footloose is my fav running song, so that one would be pretty good too. I do not want ABC to play. I put it there because I like it, so if I do happen to get to it, maybe I won’t be totally bummed, but I do NOT want it to play.

Okay, I know my goal should just be to finish, and originally it was. Then I was like “Okay, I just want to finish in under 2:30. I can totally do that.” Then somehow I got totally stuck on this goal of sub 2:20. Not super fast by any means, but still something that I feel not too sure of. I will be happy to finish regardless, but I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t start to get a little competitive with myself.

Now for a kind of embarrassing question. If you would rather go the rest of your life without reading (not in a ton of detail–I promise) about my running and bathroom trips, then please stop reading now. It’s okay–no hard feelings!

Runner friends, I need help. Almost every single time I run, I have to go to the bathroom between mile .5 and mile 2. It almost always happens in the very beginning, but it isn’t like a mild I’ll go when I can, it’s like “Where the hell is the nearest bathroom?!?!?!” Whether I eat, don’t eat, take my thyroid meds, wait to take them (yes, I tried not taking them to see if it would help), or whatever I do, I just have to go. Thank goodness it has not happened during any of my races so far. That seems like a miracle, because anyone I’ve run with has experienced waiting outside while I go into sketchy bathrooms. Please oh please, tell me how to make sure this doesn’t happen during this race and tank my finish time!!! Do I drink some coffee and jog around the block to make sure it happens before? Do I just wait and hope for the best? Do I pack TP and squat behind a tree? Yes, that is a legitimate question. I do not want to waste time in bathroom lines. Please, oh please, help!

 

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized · Tagged: half marathon training, music, running

Hermano’s Piano Recital

October 22, 2011 · by Ari · 2 Comments

Today Mi Hermano performed in his ninth piano recital. Oh my gosh, he was AMAZING!! He played this ridiculously hard Beethoven piece and then two fabulous Coldplay pieces (Christmas Lights was my fav I think) and then together we performed Adele’s Turning Tables. I don’t know what my problem was, but I got so nervous! I just don’t sing that often anymore, and I hated everything about my performance, so no I will not be sharing that part. But I will share his amazingness, so you will get the good stuff 🙂

We got to his house a little early to practice and Steve got right to playing photographer. I was actually trying to give him the evil eye at this moment, but apparently my evil eye needs some work 😉

One of the very few pictures of myself that I actually really like. I’m actually looking forward to getting some free head shots out of him here soon! I also love this one.

Cindy (Hermano’s mom)

After the recital, Steve really wanted to get some good pics with my grandma. She is 88 years old which I feel like is a pretty amazing accomplishment–is it weird that I consider old age an accomplishment? Anyway, at the risk of sounding morbid, at 88 you never know what will happen tomorrow so we wanted to get some good photos in.

 

 

That’s my dad. He’s a little nutty, but I love him.

Here is the super challenging Beethoven piece he played. Steve is working on uploading the rest on his youtube channel

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkCNcGigps&w=560&h=315]

Filed Under: Uncategorized · Tagged: family, music

Mi Hermano: The Rock Star!

October 6, 2011 · by Ari · Leave a Comment

So, in case you weren’t aware, my brother is pretty much a rock star. He is an incredible musician and plays piano, bass, guitar, and can make his way around a drum set. Up until the 2 of us, there wasn’t really anyone in our family that pursues performing arts, and then my dad got a musical theatre performer/director/choreographer and a multi instrument musician! Good thing we don’t come from one of those crazy families where we are considered failures if we’re not doctors and lawyers. Quite the opposite–we are lucky to have a really supportive family and each other to make music with (when my crazy schedule allows). I can’t imagine a scenario I’d rather sing in than with this awesomely talented (and hilarious) 14 year old! Last night he had his first high school performance. He is one of the only freshman in the top jazz band, and he is also in the top orchestra. Steve tested out the video on his camera and got this amazing video of them playing. You can’t really see Jacob because the bass position is all the way in the back and he is just beginning his growth spurt (he is finally taller than me and it makes me sad–and he won’t let me forget it either!) So if you have some time, take a look/listen. They’re pretty fantastic in my biased opinion 🙂

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hZibE_pMhQ&feature=share]

Filed Under: Uncategorized · Tagged: family, hermano, music

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