Times Square - New Years Eve Recap

emoticon Friday Night - “Hoboken No Jokin”

outfit:


Jen and I ran to the Bowling Green and caught the PATH to HOBOKEN and trekked over a mile along the waterfront, in beautiful dry 50 degree weather, lovinnnnnnnnnn the view of the skyline, especially after just coming FROM the World Trade Center, which now SUPERdwarfs the Empire State Building.

view:

(picture by MYSELF but if you think im putting first/last names, you are quite naive about internet safety)

We walked through the very strange alternate universe of Hoboken, through gorgeous brownstones and walkups that made my mouth water… seriously, some were such gothic estates, I was amdly in love and almost forsook NYC for NJ in a heartbeat.

But then we got to Maxwells and had an AMAZING show, during which Joshua handed me the mic *heart* although, in this picture, it looks more like Im making out with Tim No 37 more than singing along with the guys :)


^picture credi tto Sonya Hanafi

After the show, we all got ishfaced and made a caravan back across (under) the Hudson River, then the East River (over), back to the burg (through the woods), where we went on a 2 am run for coffee, redbull, beer, brooklyn wraps, mountain dew and Jameo in painful shoes and involved a couple of the girls (not mahself) peeing illegally lololol (PEE ME A RIVER)

Then the band got back from unloading their gear and we had a slumber party. HIGH FIVE.
Great way to start new years eve.

As a sidenote, TIm No 37 says, if you’re a gay metal fan in NYC, come out of the closet and you’ll get this for NYE:



Nightly walk mileage total: 4.7 miles

emoticon Saturday: The NYE Triathlon (not an actual triathlon)

Woke up around 9 am, laid out on the deck with Joshua and Jen, soaking up some extremely unseasonal clear skies and hot sunshine! Ordered brunch a la couch and pigged out with everyone, laughing about the hilarity that ensued the night before, such as Peter rolling down 10th street, Joshua peeing on a curb for almost 6 minutes, the two girls wearing so much makeup and feathers and SoCo on their outfits that they were just… ANYWAY…

Then Jen and I took a short graffiti walk through Bushwick:






Then we took the N back over the Manhattan Bridge to get ready for Times Square and caught an amazing sunset:




Next we take the train to 7th Ave/53rd Street just north of Times Square and decide to brave the crowds by sneaking in from the north mostly down 7th, and then via 6th before cutting into the bowtie. Let me illustrate:



Now, the ball was blocked from our view because of the ESPN building, but we were able to see it reflected in the other buildings- so Im cool with that. It took us about an hour to get from my apartment in Brooklyn, to the front of the police barricades by 11:10 or so. I took out my camera when it was less than insane, because I had no intention of taking it out later. I originally planned to take it out in the insanity- but not til next year when I can be more prepared and its not a last minute I WONDER I COULD DO THIS O_O thing.

pictures of the walk up until we got to 42nd and 6th:









^ Empire State Building from Bryant Park





^ crowds coming from the East, Bryant Park side



^ getting close!



^from now on everything looks like this

because it was like this: (from Jersey North Shore News)


except for the ball dropping


(^ reflection)






and our proud asses at the very front of the police barricades (horns up)



Then there was screaming and fireworks and confetti and we made a mad dash for the D train in Bryant Park to escape the stampedes and get back to Brooklyn for part deux de la nuit.

Fast forward 45 minutes and a 10 degree temperature drop and Jen and I are changing from jeans/tshirts/sneakers to LBDs/twinkly jewelry and pumps in the middle of 58th and 4th Ave to get to the Haven’s Black & White Ball for champagne and dancing to meet my French boy.

HIGH FIVE for NYE with Jen.

Day’s Walk Mileage Total: 8.2 mi

emoticon Sunday: Woke up at 3pm after enjoying our sleep-in and diner dinner and kisses and quickies a bit too much before French boy and I brave Best Buy and Target on NY’s Day to get hime a laptop just in time for closing. Then I run to Jen’s for homemade gumbo a la her MOST AWESOME ROOMMATE (Iron Chef Soux chef Kate- soon to be on Bravo)



OM-NOMMITY-NOM. Then I ran all the way back to the french boy’s house to sleep there.

Day’s Walk Mileage Total: 3 miles

emoticon Monday: ugh

8:37 am Got dumped MID-gardening session because apparently the mere sight of me naked after 10 dates is just too horrible to stand any longer because it makes his gardening tools soft. FINE.

emoticon Monday: REDO!

called Peter and and headed straight to the band’s apartment for beers and movies and louging away until I had to get up to go to work, which was much nicer than playing translator for le douche.

sad; new body issues; whaddyagonnado?

It couldnt dampen the rest of a phenomenal NYE weekend and THAT is why it is by farrrrrrrrrrrr my favorite holiday.

Day’s Walk Mileage Total: 5.5 

Weekend Total Mileage: about 20-22 miles
Weekend Total Cost: $11.12 sht you not.

Birthday Recap and Plan for the New Week

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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Yeah this is my third blog today, sue me.

If I dont take care of this blog now, I may never get to it and I only enjoy procrastination in moderation.

Saturday morning, woke up and spent an hour stretching, had a sexy breakfast and donned my workout clothes and headed out to St. Mark’s Place and the spinning cube to wait for Joshua and head to KMart to look for manly workout shorts that dont come down to his knees.

Ended up spending a bit of time in St. Marks Place so here are spinning cubey pictures





Then it was on to the bouldering wall, which was way tough considering there are no harnesses, no flourescent handy things to hold on to, a distinct outward slope, no handholds within 4 feet of the top (that anyone could find). Joshua almost made it to the top, whereas, I made it to the bottom several several times.

My knees are banged and bruised to hell, my elbows too. My upper body is so sore that I was having trouble getting my water to my mouth and other simple locomotor events like brushing my teeth, I exaggerate you not.

Every time we fell, we clambered back up. We did, at one point, stand between a punching bag and a crate of boxing gloves and seriously consider beating each other bloody… but that’s a blog for another time… BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Thing is, now we are addicted to this daggum wall.

We are checking out lessons, listing all the places that have these things in our area and pulling on all our connection strings, esp @ Chelsea Piers & NYHRC. This is simply our newest addiction. We want to get as good as we possibly can, and we want to feel like we are bursting with pride once our abilities start increasing.

Also, we are going to try to get a bunch of friends of ours into to… but not until we’ve gotten really good at so we can be a bit cocky :P






Next… Joshua surprised me with tickets to see Incubus at the Nikon Theatre on Jones Beach (15,000 people in front of a HUGE stage with the Atlantic Ocean behind it and the most amazing cool strong breeze off the coast - le sigh - perfection!)



Flash forward through random bouts of inebriation and DOMS and you will find Jen and I spending a couple of hours running the circumference of Ground Zero, which Ive been looking forward to doing for a very very long time!




^ almost halfway point

PLAN FOR 9/6 - 9/9 

1. Get my starting line numbers, before pics and measurements for PMP on Tues/Thurs
2. Run at least one morning between now and Thursday morning (preferable 5 miles on Wed morning)
3. Purge clothing on Thursday night
4. Chores on Tuesday night
5. Battery Park with Tali on Wednesday

Motivation for this week? Yacht trip Friday.

Rest Day Walk (photos), weekend-agenda and uhh…

Friday, June 24, 2011









Im sore all over today. My legs are screaming from 3 days running back to back. So tnight Im doing an abs workout and stretching and then headed to the docks in Long Island City.

I still didn’t eat that giant chocolate bar.

But I did eat a big fat red velvet cupcake. Judge me, lol, you would have eaten it too. The goodness was astounding.

I need to make up my weekend checklist cause its going to be a crazy one.

Friday, meet jen and drive out to the UPS Hub. Then back to my place for Ultimate Body Abs Workout, an hour stretching, home made dinner, a long hot soak, and to dress for the acoustic show at Angels & Kings then grab the E train to Long Island City for the docks party and catch a ride home tonight with Matt and Susan.

Saturday, early am, im guessing even if its raining? Meet up with DONNYBELLE for a run to - where are we going? Brooklyn Bridge? Manhattan Bridge? Verrazano Narrows Bridge? for a long interval run. Then the beach for a freckle enhancement session and a Cyclones game at the old Brooklyn Dodgers stadium at Coney Island and fun in Luna Park with Joshua/Jen. Then Im making jambalaya from scratch for us and the roommies, walk Jen home and show Joshua her new place, then slumber party.

Sunday, I believe some type of BBQ specialness is possibly happening in my backyard, do all my chores, wash and straighten my hair, stretch for an hour and let my legs and tummy heal from the weekend workouts, then to Jordan’s place in Astoria for a True Blood party.

But basically, pretty much, for all of today, considering my date last night, and this permanent smile on my face, Im brain dead and twitterpated and can’t string together any motivational, informational go get ‘em’ness.

So here is some fitspo for the weekend!!! (roll around in a pile of pride this weekend, this is it. this is the one. Time to go again. You know its true. stfu and sweat your ass off.)



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What is your driving force to be amazing this coming weekend?

Surprise! (Again)

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So I sat on here mapping out potential routes this morning before leaving for a run. (Nothing was going to stop me cause my weight jumped from 174 to 183 since Sunday) I tried mapping a route from my house to a lap around Prospect Park which came out to about 9 miles. I tried to see what it would be like to take the subway to Court St and then run across the Brooklyn Bridge but that was only about 6 miles and I wanted to do more. I figured maybe I could run back and forth across it a couple times… but all those tourists and slow ass people make it really hard to do. Sprint 25 feet, stop behind picture-takers, sprint 25 feet, trip over picture-takers, sprint 25 feet, run over picture-takers, sprint 25 ft, run headfirst into jerkface velociraptor hat bikerdouche.

Nope, that’s just not gonna happen.

So I figured I’d leave my house and just run until I wanted (not needed) a break and then I would jump on the subway and head toward the Brooklyn Bridge.

Well! Not only did I never get on the subway, but I ran/walked/jogged straight to the bridge, over to Manhattan and kept. on. going.

All the way up Broadway through Tribeca to Chinatown! Then I checked my time.

Exactly 9 miles, Exactly 130 minutes.

FIST. PUMP.

My hands are swollen like giant grandpa hands, my feet are killing me, im covered in salt from dried sweat, no seriously you can see sal deposits all over my black stretchy running pants… how friggin sexy is THAT!

I even took a couple pics and some video for you guys!



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So what did you all do today (or plan on doing today) to get a little closer to your next goal??