Ceremonial Lap and the end of Running

The run was sponsored by Monumental Gallery

My official lap photographs aren't in yet but here are some unofficial ones you can check out until the others are up.
general group shot. 
action shot of Matt and Daniel getting water from water stop
Mary, awesomely, handing out water
 Wow, today was an interesting day with a ton of different little, medium, and long distances to travel. 

There was the ceremonial last lap which turned out a little silly but basically good. 

I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the run wether  it was by actually running it or by volunteering your time to help things go smoothly. It is greatly appreciated. 

So, while the ceremonial last lap was an event it wasn't my last official run of the day since it seemed important to close out the whole day and make this month of running complete. 

I'm looking forward to going to get donuts tomorrow in a car. It's going to be excellent. 

Today was my highest milage day as well as being the final day. Milage came out to about 15.75 miles. My total milage for this project ended up being about 182.45 miles. Here's my map for today. 

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Tomorrow Ceremonial Lap. Be there or be square.

Hello readers! Today is the day before my last day of the project. That's pretty exciting. Soon my life can go back to normal. It will be great! Well today involved a lot of really short runs all over the place because I'm trying to get things in order for the ceremonial last lap. But still my milage didn't get too very high. Today I ran about 6.07 miles. Here's a map 
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Ceremonial Last run! Join me!

Today I'm getting this post in a little late. Sorry to all of you really faithful checkers. I decided to hang around the art building after dinner to digest and I ended up staying for hours. 

I'd like to invite any of you followers to run with me on my Ceremonial Final Lap. It will be on February 11th starting at 3:30pm. The location of the start is 1000 W. Broad St- outside of the fine arts building. I think that's all the details you need really. If you come dress in your most awesome running outfit. Don't forget it's going to be in the high 70s on Wednesday. 

Milage for today came to around 4.43 miles and my map is right here.

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VERY exciting.

Well, today not too eventful. I hate my apartment because I never go anywhere else and the toaster oven caught on fire today. It was terrifying. But I mostly hate it because I never go anywhere- lame.  Anyways I didn't do too much exciting stuff today just ran to Tyler's and visited for a while then ran back home. I know, my life is fascinating. My milage for today was about 3.82 miles and my map is boring- here you go.
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OK, almost there

WOW! it was warm today. I didn't really have to go out until later in the day as the sun was setting and it was still 69 degrees. The heat seems to be draining all of my energy though because it's hardly past 11 and I've been tired for the last hour. Not much went down today but the few places that I did go to where pretty nice. I went to one friend's closing reception and another friend's classy party. Oh! and I cut my bangs. Can you tell in the video? That's pretty much it milage for today got up to about 3.9 miles. Here's my map
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nothing much

Today I didn't really do any traveling except going to 711 for some heavy but necessary groceries (milk and tomato sauce). On Sunday I get to make pancakes! So total milage for today was .49 of a mile and here's the map
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Not so tired today. Just cold.

Hello everyone on the home front.  If you didn't notice today was pretty chilly. But overall it was good. 

I've pretty much perfected the art of talking on my cell phone while running. It's a little hard because my earring always bump into my phone making an annoying noise but other than that I've got it down. Skills I can really use later on in life. Life skills.

Anyways, I've planning on doing a ceremonial couple of final blocks with a group of followers. Everyone is invited. It will be on Wednesday  (Feb. 11th) sometime after 3 and before 5. Hopefully it will be complete with a finish line ribbon and a water stop for the crowd and people taking pictures at the end. Let me know if you are interested because I would be happy to have you. Perhaps there will even be a local gallery sponsoring it. 

Well thanks for reading today's milage ended up around 5.8 miles and here's the map  

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Rushed & missing doing things the normal way

If you watch the video for today, you will notice that it's incredibly rushed and I look really tired. Well folks, that's because this morning I woke up all of 10 minutes before I was supposed to leave to go visit the doctor and I was really tired. 10 minutes!! My alarm didn't go off or I slept right on through it. Whatever happened it was rushed.

After that my day was OK. Although I noticed (really really noticed) today that I am missing out on a lot of physical contact with other people and I'm craving it. I guess since I rarely get to hang out with anyone except when I'm in class I never get very good interactions with them.  That got a little attention today when I got to hang out a little after class with many of my studio buddies but really not enough. This project is creating a people void in my life. I need to interact with at least certain people. Not least of all is my boyfriend who it seems I never get to really hang out with since I'm always leaving so I won't be running in the cold, running in the extra dark, or so I'm not late to something which I could usually bike to in about half the time it takes me to run there. 

Here's a list of 10 things I'm ready to do once this project ends

 1. wear normal cloths 2. be able to hang out with people after dark 3. be energetic enough to go to fun events 4. not be the stinky, damp person in class. 5. be able to walk with people 6. hang out with Tyler. 7. Be at the studio after dark 8. make things 9. Get large quantities of groceries-especially produce. 10. get somewhere really fast on my bike.

All of this stuff seems small but actually makes a notable difference in my life. Well besides that good stuff, I missed my Wednesday night fun run which is a bummer but I still got in some decent milage for today. Total distance came to about 10.15 miles. Here's a map. 

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So, everyone in all of my classes knows about this project. It's a  bit of a testament to my big mouth but it's also a little bit embarressing. They're all waiting for it to be over. In my Paradox of truth and reason class one kid asked me straight out why I wasn't done since it was February. I'm encouraged that people are taking an interest but I too am ready for the end to come. Plus I miss hanging out in the studio 'till all hours with fellow art students (Whitney) Todays runs added up to about 4.77 miles and here's a map
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Nice-cold all in under 12 hours

My weather widget says that it's 56 degrees and sunny outside, It's wrong! While it may have been that warm at many points throughout the day it is not that warm right now. I should know. I just ran home in it. I had to wait until an hour after I'd eaten my Shafer meal so that I wouldn't actually want to puke like I wanted to last time that I ran home after eating Shafer. 

The delay was worth it as far as stomach feelings go but it got really cold after the sun went down and just kept getting colder while I watched "no bias, no bull" on CNN waiting for the time when I could return to my beloved and apartment. 

Complaint time!! I'm tired of not making anything. Most of you are probably thinking, "tired of not making anything? She never makes anything..." which may be true but I want the option of making something.  By the way, any ideas on how to make this a viewable/experienceable object/thing would be appreciated. 

Would any of you faithful followers be interested in doing a ceremonial end of run run (like 2 blocks or something) as a performance/experience aspect? Just a thought. I'm trying to get some feedback. Feel free to comment :D.

Today I took my first ever spinning class. For those of you who don't know but want to laugh at me-spinning is like aerobics on a stationary bike. Complete with 80's music. My milage for the day was pretty low about 4.51 miles but the spinning class briefly made me question weather I would be able to run home. Obviously, since  I'm at home making this, everything worked out AOK. Here's the map for today. Minty green

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Picture of the Groceries

 Here's a tiny picture of the groceries I got today. I couldn't seem to get a bigger one up today. Just take note of the Donuts. I skillfully got those back home in tact. :D. 

Superbowl & Grocery Shopping

So, I didn't watch the Superbowl today (I'm planning on watching all the adds later on the internet). But I did go grocery shopping.

It was a nice warm day and grocery shopping would have been great if not for me stinking to high hell and the grocery store being full of last minute snack shoppers. I couldn't even bring myself to wear the fanny pack home. 

So, now I have none of the usual fruit that goes in there on the way home. There were just too many people and I bowed under the imaginary social constraint. You know, the one where it's unacceptable to wear a fanny pack. On the upside of things I didn't have the uncomfortable fanny packed run home. Some things worked out for the better. Anyways, here's my map for the day. Total milage is around 3.46 miles

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 Today I went nowhere and did little but homework and TV on the computer. I ran 0 miles. and here's my map. Very exciting.  
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Sorry!!

So this probably only matters to me. But I feel really bad that I didn't post yesterday. Sorry to anyone wbo noticed.  But, If it makes you feel any better, I didn't really do much yesterday. I ran a total of 1.19 miles over the entire day and here's the map 
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Oh, Also, Take note of the new format. Very nice. I hope it encourages some new Followers :D.

 Today I got cheered at on my way home from  Tyler's- Thanks Mike. Also nothing else exciting really happened to me.  6.05 miles today. Here's the map
View Larger Map weight today is 132lbs. Didn't get that in the video

Bus to VMFA

OK so here's a video of me running along beside the bus as it got started. This was shot by members of my Big studio class as they rode the GRTC to the local art museum. Shortly after this was shot the bus turned onto Broad St. and lost me in about 3 seconds. That video is really hard to see though. However, I was told shortly after I got there that I was only about 4 minutes behind them which makes me think, "Hey, maybe it's not so bad to run everywhere".

Bigger and Bigger

I'm going corporate!! Google is paying me to advertise on this page and I thought that added an interesting element to this otherwise profitless project. So don't be alarmed by the adds just take note of how big this is all becoming.

I've got a food video involving a great and unintended moment of  futility but it won't upload right now so I'll get it to you later.

It's still killing me not to be able to walk beside anyone and talk with them. That's my number 1 complaint about this project. However, since I was ahead of my class to wait for the bus at the bus stop-even though I wasn't going to be taking the bus-I found a $5 bill!!! Good times :D. I think that's all I've got to say for today. I ran about 11.54 miles today and here's the map. Click on View Larger Map for more details.

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running in the rain makes me have to pee

Don't worry folks, there's more to come today. I just wanted to get this video up right now instead of later when I'm working on a lot of other things. 

no nausea/no Shafer today was golden

 Oh today, today was a day of many pleasures :D. It rained/hailed this morning. I thought my face was going to freeze off when I was running to class and I felt rather chilly in my first two classes while things dried off. I ran to a resume building workshop-needless to say I looked incredibly professional in my sporty attire. I visited the doctor and all seems well but the wait was long.

But seriously, a lot of good things did happen today. Tuesday might be my favorite day of classes, I got to hang out with Tyler a little bit. That's becoming increasingly difficult because I'm usually too tired to go over there and hang out with him.  The resume writing workshop may have proved helpful. Now maybe someone will hire me :D. I recruited some people to read my blog-maybe. 

That's a good lead in to an important point. If you're reading this blog you should become an official follower by clicking on 'follow this blog'. Show some support, please :D. 

Some influence the running has had over my life is That I still can't walk anywhere with anyone- it just feels lamer and lamer-that's when a lot of the good conversing goes down-AND I have no weekend social life because I don't want to run anywhere! Hopefully this will change on the up and coming weekend. 

Today I ran about 5.87 miles and here's the map. 

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The video finally uploaded!!