Posted: 28 Jun 2012 08:54 AM PDT

Yesterday was a bad snacking day. Between the time change and getting 3 hours of sleep I was hitting the kitchen when I should have been hitting the bed. I randomly ate a pb&J and half an avocado with tortilla as an afternoon pick-me-up. I wasn't hungry, just tired. Bah.

Dinner was leftovers of Mexican food Ben made while I was gone. I guess he missed his Mexican wife and needed some comfort food from my people Winking smile

Dessert was Greek. As in yogurt – frozen to be exact.

This morning I have some very important stuff on my mind!

I am less than 18 weeks*…

…away from the New York City Marathon!!!

I usually do a 12-16 week training program depending on what shape I'm in, but I don't feel like I'm in good shape at all right now. So I'm going to ease into training for the next 2 weeks and then officially do a 16 week marathon training program.

Today I did 6 miles and felt pretty okay. Oh, and my braid fell out at some point?! After my first marathon I basically had to tear my hair apart trying to untangle it and ever since then I braid it. Luckily I felt it fall around mile 5 so it's not too bad.

I had eggs and an english muffin when I got back home. Oh, and an extra piece of toast because I was still hungry.

We have no fruit in our house so I need to run to Costco today and stock up!

Okay, off to work. See ya later!

*Yes, I'm sucking it in like a mo-fo in that picture. Don't judge my pansa.

Question: What fruit do you have at home (or in your lunch box) right now?

Back to Reality

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:42 PM PDT

My flight actually got in about 45 minutes early this morning and I was back home before 11am.

As soon as I got in I logged onto work and spent the day catching up. I'm super behind on blog emails so if you're waiting for something from me… um, be patient?

When Ben came home we decided to take a nice little walk and catch up with each other.

We walked 4 miles and even called his parents to catch up with them.

Now I have a pile of dirty laundry and an even bigger pile of reality TV to catch up on! Thank goodness for the DVR Smile

I'm also super behind on blog reading so if anything amazing happened with you recently please share! Feel free to make the story sound better a la the magic of TV the internet to get us all hooked on your story line!

ING Class of 2012

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:34 AM PDT

When I last left you yesterday I had just ran 6 miles through Central Park and enjoyed a NY bagel. From there the day went non-stop until 1am!

For those of you that missed it, I was recently chosen to be part of the ING Class of 2012. I am one of 4 runners doing the ING New York City Marathon and acting as a representative for the organization. We all have very different running backgrounds / experience levels and will be sharing our views and tips on training online over the next few months.

The other runners are Steve from SoCal Running

Dave who's blog is not up, but you can follow him on twitter at Clydesdalerunrr

and Jen Turner at Mad Cool Fitness (this site will be up next week!)

Nutshell: I was in New York Monday and Tuesday filming some webisodes. They will be available soon and I'll keep ya posted.

Okay back to yesterday morning…

I had to report to the Hearst building to be in the background of the yoga scenes Steve was filming.

The Hearst Tower gym is nice and quiet. It's not very big, but the views are HUGE!

I kinda love that the gym had examples of healthy foods out. Focus on what you can eat, not what you shouldn't.

We shot the yoga scenes in the group fitness room. Everything with production takes a long time because the camera crew needs to set up the shot, background and sound.

When I was done it was about lunch time and I grabbed another iced coffee to fuel me up for the rest of the day. I also grabbed another WF salad since I wasn't sure if I would be eating at the next location.

I did a quick wardrobe change and put on ~~way too much~~ makeup for the next segment.

Five of my segments focus on food. I am doing a series called "Marathon Meals" where I talk about recipes to enjoy while training. We filmed this part in the Redbook Test Kitchen.

The recipes are from Redbook and the segments have me interviewing Babs Chernitz, food editor for the magazine. It was kinda intimidating at first, but you just have to roll with it!

Plus, the hardest part about it was taking a bite of food and then talking on camera without spitting it all out on the table and/or the editor of a major magazine!

I'll be sharing the recipes as the segments come out, but here are some pictures.

I'm kinda obsessed with the quinoa dish we did. Delicious.

After those segments were wrapped I had to wait around while the guys went to film a scene in Central Park. Even though I took a few bites of the recipes we made I was HUNGRY. Finally I was able to break into my salad. So glad I thought ahead and grabbed something!

A bit later the crew and guys were back and we did one more fun beer drinking scene in the test kitchens. Then, it was time to move to the final location – the Central Park reservoir.

The path was pretty busy with runners and walkers, but we set up camp and tried to shoot when there was a gap in the crowd.

It was a little weird because people would slow down and watch us shooting. Then, they would realize I wasn't famous and walk off disappointed. (Side note: I saw Will of Will & Grace while I was walking to the building earlier and was super excited! They were looking in the wrong place for famous people!)

After my hydration bit I had an apple while we waited for the next set up.

The last few shots were of the four of us running. We went back and forth on the path a few times with 3 cameras placed at different distances.

And the final shot was our sign off. It was appropriate that the "Good Luck!" shot was last, but it was also sad. We all worked so closely together for the last 48 hours I was sad for it to end.

We wrapped about 8:30pm and headed back to the hotel for a quick change. Jen left us at this point so it was just me and the guys with their SOs.

Then, we headed to 3 Monkeys bar for celebratory drinks! I started with a vodka tonic.

But we also got free cards to try the new Malibu Red.

Yes please.

We also shared a bunch of appetizers. I was super hungry at this point and ordered the fish tacos and sweet potato puffs as part of the group order.

The fellow ING classmates are NOT food bloggers so it was nice to be around different people on this trip. But, they harassed my picture taking a little Winking smile

We also shared mussles and buffalo chicken spring rolls.

I had high hopes for the gravy smothered fries, but they were just okay.

We lingered for a while talking over the events of the last two days and all the training we have ahead of us. Steve and I couldn't stop talking running.

Finally the rest of the group shut us up by moving the party to a karaoke bar.

I stopped drinking at this point and just hung out. Finally I headed back to the hotel around 1am. Solo. The group was still going strong! But, I had a car coming for me at 5:15am and still needed to pack.

I crawled in bed around 2am and set my alarm for 5 – the last minute possible. Now I'm on the plane on my way back to SoCal.

The entire experience was completely amazing. I feel so so lucky to have been chosen for the ING Class of 2012. I want to thank the ING NY Marathon group for letting me be a part of this. I hope I can live up to the expectations!

I'm excited to train for New York and I'm excited to share my point of view with other runners. I'll talk about training this week. But my laptop is dying and I kinda need a nap.

See you in California!

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