Sunday Morning Breakfast Club

This morning, I went on my first long training run for the half marathon I'll be running on April 11th. I was fully expecting it to be the worst run ever since I definitely took some time off while in Patagonia, but it was actually a pretty great run! I just mapped it out on mapmyrun.com and it looks like it was just a little bit over 8 miles and we did it in 1 hour and 20 minutes. It was also the first time since high school I've done a run that long without doing intervals and it felt really good actually! I did it with several of my friends who are also doing the half marathon and we all felt pretty good about it, which is great because I was definitely good because I was feeling liek I was way behind where I should have been training-wise at this point.

After the run, we went to Starbucks right next to my apartment and got coffee and muffins and just sat and talked for a bit. We decided we want to make a Sunday morning running and breakfast club where we do this every week, which sounds like a great idea! It's incredible how great a good run can make me feel. There are some things I'm obviously still bummed about, but overall I feel so much better. I love running and I am so in debt still to Sarah for making me realize that again when we started all this half marathon business back in August.

Yesterday we had a pizza party with EAP and then some friends and I went to a park and ate fruit (plus swedish fish and peanut butter I got in a package from home!) and read and napped a bit. Then I came home and skyped with Jess, David, and a girl from the Daily Bruin. I really do have the best friends in the world, and although I am very sad Jess will not be visiting in 2 weeks, it was great to be able to talk about things with her yesterday. I even told her I would give up Burt's Bees forever if it meant she could come visit, and we all know how addicted I am to Burt's Bees. But seriously, it was great to realize what great of friends I have and how awesome summer school and senior year will be when I return and live with Jess again. Hopefully she'll be able to visit in June and that will be incredible, but for now Skype will have to suffice. There's no point in being too upset over it, because there is absolutely nothing we can do. I guess I should be thankful that this is the biggest impact the Earthquake has had on me, but still. Last night I also got to finally talk to my brother which was awesome, and talking to David was great also.

This afternoon I am dedicating to actually figuring out classes (since they start tomorrow finally!), showering, skyping with my parentals, unpacking a bit since I don't think I'm going to move too soon, and then going to our favorite US owned mexican food restaurant to watch the Oscars later tonight with some friends. I think my first class tomorrow will be Soccer! I'm at least going to go check it out with Lauren, but I'm not sure I'll take it since it's MWF.

Since we don't have class on Thursday or Friday this week, I believe some friends and I are going to take an overnight bus on Wednesday night to Mendoza, Argentina and have a relaxing weekend there, but reservations have not yet been made so we'll see. Maybe later this afternoon I'll do some more vacation blogging too if I have time!