Finally a Run!

Okay you can officially call off the search and rescue team, put away the flashlights! I went for a run today, well sort of. It started out as a run and then a quick run home as I was having major GI issues and needed to use the loo! Regardless of today's distance I still feel accomplished. I laced up my shoes and enjoyed the sunshine. I may have only ran 1.50 miles, but as the saying goes, 'if you can run a mile you could run a marathon' and that is just what I am going to do! 

AWOL

I think that if I don't go for a run tomorrow my running shoes might send out a search and rescue party...let's hope that it does not get to that! Hope that everyone is having a memorable holiday season! 

Mental Floss

For many runners not only being motivated to hit the pavement, but to zone out while running is often a challenge. As the great Timothy Leary, suggests,  'just tune in, tune out, drop in, drop out, switch on, switch off,' that however it a lot easier said then done. Being motivated and committed to your running routine could be a very daunting task. As I have suggested paying yourself to run is always motivation to me. A dollar a mile is very enticing, what girls does not love a shopportunity? For some it means wearing your running clothes and not changing out of them until you run. I find my running clothes way too comfy for that to even remotely work. When your motivator no longer does it, you need to readjust your way of thinking and discover new ways of motivating yourself to get out there and log those miles. Running should be categorized in the same category as work, which is expected. At your job, you must show up everyday and put your best foot forward, shouldn't you do the same with your running? Think to yourself if I show up and complete my running routine x amount of days per week for so many weeks, how will you pay yourself  for a job well done? Is there a new running outfit that you have been eyeing? If so tape a picture of it to your calendar with a date circled. If rewards don't cut it or you simply don't want to bribe yourself to run, after every run evaluate the run and find at least one positive aspect of your run.  I being from the school of over rewarding will stick to bribery! Regardless of what motivates you and gets you going, make a promise to yourself to lace up those sneakers and hit the pavement.

Winner for Week 5 KT Tape Shopportunity Giveaway

Congrats Melissa Perry Adams!! Please email 13GoingonCrazy@gmail.com with your address! Thanks for being a part of my cheer squad!! Happy Running!

My Latest Obsession...

My latest obsession is the Lululemon Rehearsal Tutu.  Yes it is intended for ballerinas, but why not runners? When I looked at this tutu I didn't look at this as though I was a ballerina or even a graceful swan, I am far from graceful. It is amazing how the cutest adornment to your wardrobe can help empower you to run like you have never run before. Do you think that Audrey Hepburn, Princess Grace or even Princess Diana thought of life as a dress rehearsal? I don't think so! Taking a cue from these fashion icons, donning one of these tutu's will make you the belle of the race. And if you can't be the fastest runner why not be the cutest!  Can you guess what is on the top of my birthday list?

Winner for Week 4 Paradice Ice Packs

Congrats Stephanie Maloy Chandler!! Please email 13GoingonCrazy@gmail.com with your address! Thanks for being a part of my cheer squad!! Happy Running!

Shopportunity Giveaway Week 5

Brought back by popular demand, this week on 13 Going on Crazy’s Shopportunity Giveaway, KT Tape will be giving another lucky follower my favorite elastic sports tape, KT Tape Pro.

How do I enter? Why it is as easy as 1, 2, 3! Sign up to follow me on my blog and like me on Facebook prior to December 18th, 2011. Two simple likes and you are entered to win this weeks Shopportunity

Good Luck! Be well, stay healthy, be active, and remember wherever you are, there you go.

To enter - Leave a comment here and on Facebook.

1. Become a verified follower to 13 Going on Crazy (top right) of blog and make a note in the comments.
2. Like 13 Going on Crazy on Facebook and make a note here in the comments that you're a new liker.

For bonus entries

1. Add 13 Going on Crazy follow on Google reader (at right) and make a note in the comments.
2. Share contest link to this page on your Facebook page and make a note here in the comments.
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Santa to the Sea Half Marathon Race Number 4 Recap

Still a kid at heart!

It's official. I am out of the double digits and down to only 9 races! Today I ran the Santa to the Sea Half Marathon in Oxnard and had a blast! I am not too sure if it was the actual race or the fact that it is the holiday season, but everyone and I mean everyone was beyond cheerful and happy. I saw more Santa's than one could count, I saw a person in a wrapped box running as a present, and even a group where two people where dressed as Reindeer with the third person dressed as Santa. What great ideas by everyone who dressed to truly embrace the holiday season. I wish that I had thought to do something, but I was more concerned about being warm today than cute. Maybe next year! Besides my stomach taking a vacation this morning without me, today was a perfect day. I even had a chance to talk to Santa and tell him what I wanted this year. The holiday season sure brought out everyone's most positive spirit!  I sure hope the beginning of this holiday season is bringing to you and yours ear to ear smiles and memories galore!!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

I just picked up my bib and tee for the Santa to the Sea Half Marathon which is this Sunday! I can't believe that race number 4 is just around the corner!

Wednesday Run..Finally

Do you ever have one of those weeks where your head is clearly not attached & you can't get your act together. Well it does not take Einstein to guess that I'm having that kind of a week. Taking time out this week to go for a run has been near impossible, but I did it! I went for a run this afternoon and feel that I am ready for the Santa to the Sea Half Marathon this Sunday! I can't believe that race number 4 is almost here! It has been very hectic needless to say. Lots and I mean lots of exciting things are beginning to develop in my life. More on that as it evolves, but I am more than ready to bubble wrap my life and throw it in the back of a moving truck! 

Shopportunity Giveaway Week 4

Every girl loves a shopportunity and to kick off the up coming holiday season 13 Going on Crazy is giving away some of our favorite running things to my cheer squad! This week marks the fourth week where one lucky reader will be a winner of 13 Going on Crazy’s Shopportunity Giveaway.

This week on 13 Going on Crazy’s Shopportunity Giveaway, Pardice Ice Packs will be giving one lucky follower my favorite pre and post running ice packs. The set includes two P300 which is great for knees, calves, elbows, ankles, and thights and the P250 is great for all body parts, but I love putting it over my eyes and on my low back!

How do I enter? Why it is as easy as 1, 2, 3! Sign up to follow me on my blog and like me on Facebook prior to December 11th, 2011. Two simple likes and you are entered to win this weeks Shopportunity

Good Luck! Be well, stay healthy, be active, and remember wherever you are, there you go.

To enter - Leave a comment here and on Facebook.

1. Become a verified follower to 13 Going on Crazy (top right) of blog and make a note in the comments.
2. Like 13 Going on Crazy on Facebook and make a note here in the comments that you're a new liker.

For bonus entries

1. Add 13 Going on Crazy follow on Google reader (at right) and make a note in the comments.
2. Share contest link to this page on your Facebook page and make a note here in the comments.
3. Share contest link to this page on your blog and make a note here in the comments.
4. Like Paradice Ice Packs on Facebook and make a note here in the comments.

Winner for Week 3 KT Tape Shopportunity

Congrats Kimberley Ann Frey!! Please email 13GoingonCrazy@gmail.com with your address! Thanks for being a part of my cheer squad!! Happy Running!

Sweet Dreams

First of all please note the post time, yes it is 4:15 in the morning! Here is one for Freud, my dream tonight, I am running in what appears to be a race. I for reasons unknown to me am carrying my Asics running shoes instead of them being snugly wrapped around my feet. I tend to have to dreams where I am barefooted, I don't know what that is about. Did I mention that I am running on stones nears a beach with seals who will not stop marking the trademark bark? Very strange dream, common sense when running on stones would be to put on shoes, but not me I just kept on running. Maybe the subliminal message here is that perhaps yes in life it gets chaotic and messy, but you need to keep on going and push on through. 

Ready, Set, Goal!

Did Mark Remy set himself up to fail? According to Remy’s RW post, his Holiday Running Streak was a mere 5 days old, 2 days shy of a week, when it died. Did he set himself up to fail? Was his goal unrealistic? Are we our own worst enemy? In a world were we perpetually beat ourselves up and set ourselves up to fail, I ask the simple question, why?

I may not know the why, I will leave that one up to Freud, but I believe that behind all unrealistic goals are good intentions, the I will do this or that. Unrealistic goals are the goals that we subconsciously set knowing that they are near impossible to complete. These are those pesky ‘I will’ goals. I too am guilty of this recalling times proclaiming that I will go to the gym everyday, run every day, skip a late night snack, or never eat after 7 pm, not even a grape. Seriously? Committing to never eating after 7pm? What about dessert? Or better yet running every day of the week? What about the day of rest? Who are we kidding? We are not robots who could seriously commit to such rigid life standards.

Rather than continually bang our heads against the wall, though it feels so good when we stop, lets vow to set realistic goals. To make goals more palatable, they need to be ‘I’m able’ goals. These are the goals that we could be successful and achieve in the long run. Committing ourselves to 3 or 4 days of physical activity or even better sharing a dessert rather than skipping because the short hand is seven and the long hand is on the twelve is more realistic.

Recognizing the distinction between the ‘I will’ and ‘I’m able’ goals is the yellow brick road for runners and goal setters alike. Like Dorothy we have goals, though it may not be made of rubies, we need to put our best running shoe forward and head out on our very own yellow brick road.