A State of Sassiness: November 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Turkey Trot

Randy ran the Fresno Turkey Trot at Woodward Park with me today :) Well, he started out with me than ran past me, waaaay past. He came in at 30 minutes and I came in at 35 minutes. I checked my watch and my average pace was 11.10, which is AMAZING for me! In fact, I think it was even faster than that, because I noticed my watch was still timing after I stopped it. I ran a 14.45 average pace at the half-marathon in May and while I don't think you can compare the two, because of the mileage, 11.10 is a DEFINITE improvement in my time. Happy Day!

After the trot!

We were FREEZING waiting for the race to start!

Almost ready!

Ran, for a moment, with Tracy. She's uber fast!

We did it!!!!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Running New York Style

So my next movement goal was to run in Central Park. The route is 6 miles and so I was gearing for that, but Madison hadn't run in over a month and Randy was recovering from hurting his knee. I just want to state for the record, because this will probably be the last time I'll be able to say it, I out ran both of them! I ended up running 4.6 miles. Mad and I ran together and we started with 4/1 splits, then went to 3/2 splits. We were going pretty fast, some 9s, 10s and 11s. It was a beautiful day to run, crisp and glowing with the fall colors.

New York! New York!

We had a great time in New York this past week with Madison and Dan. We accomplished an amazing amount of things in one week - church with Maddie & Dan, went to see Jersey Boys, Promises! Promises!, The Adams Family, the Rockettes' Christmas Spectacular, an opera, toured the Subway Museum in Brooklyn, went on the NBC Studio tour, shopped at GAP, Forever 21, Bloomingdales, ate at S'macs, Serendipity, the vendor stand in Times Square, Roxies' Deli, Ellen's Stardust (singing waiters), Rosie O'Gradys and Patsy's Italian restaurant. My heavens we did soooo much! Thanks Mad & Dan for hosting us and joining us on some of our adventures.

After church, in front of the Hudson river.

Central Park - beautiful!

Randy in front of Central Park.

Randy at Rockerfeller Center.

Delicious mac & cheese at S'macs in the Lower East Side.

Me and Madison at Jersey Boys

Randy and me at the Jersey Boys - loved that play!

Tried to take a picture in front of Promises! Promises! marquee.

At Radio City Musical Hall after the Rockettes' Christmas performance.

After the NBC Studio tour.

In Brooklyn at the Subway Museum.

Sharing a frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity in the Upper East Side. And ya, it's yum!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Friends

Me and Christy

I am blessed to be friends with some of the most outstanding women. When I announced my new position with Emeritus, Christy offered to get a few friends together to celebrate my good news. I dubbed the event, a Cindy party. While we ate, Christy had everyone share a Cindy story, how they met me or something they knew about me. There were some pretty funny stories shared that night! Thank you to all who came! Christy, Jen, Jacquie, Renee, Lisa, DeAnn, Joylynne, Susan, Kelly and Shayna. You girls are the bomb!