We be clubbin'--Yeah yeah!

I should probably explain the title of this post before I dive in. More than 10 years ago my family was at Six Flags over Texas getting ready to ride some roller coaster ride and there was a group of guys in front of us that kept yelling "We be clubbin" then anohter would chime in "yeah-yeah!". We found it hilarious and continued to say that all weekend...Lulo, you may be the only person who really appreciates the title of this post :)

But yes-we be clubbin'! I am in so many clubs now that I almost feel like I am in college again although these "post college clubs" are now centered 'grown up' things such as food, drinks, and intellectual conversations, haha j/k and maybe they are not so different than college after all...

Running Club
Duh..all of you know I'm training for a marathon and in order to reach that goal I decided to join a club! Love love my running club and enjoy the ladies that I run with every weekend!

Supper Club aka Supper Lovers
Yum! Yum! One of my first visits to Houston last April when I was looking into transferring to the Houston office, Chelsea and I talked about starting a supper club. Well, so far its been a success! We've had a few rotations in members but have had a great time and have enjoyed all kinds of deliciousness!

Our supper club works like this: We meet once a month (usually) and rotate hosts. The host is responsible for planning the menu, buying the ingredients, and deciding how she wants to set up our meal (stations, everybody working on the recipe together, etc). Cooking Light recipes are a Supper Lover's favorite but we've used recipes from all over the place including old family favorites.

Book Club
This is the newest addition to my "clubbin". Our first meeting is in October and we will be reading "My Left Foot" by Christie Brown. If you check out Lauren's Blog you can see the synopsis of our other choices and a description of how this club works!

It will be fun to discuss books with different people and I think I secretly like it because the discussion portion was the only part of English classes I enjoyed. It will be like school, but fun and no papers!

We be clubbin-yeah yeah!

My weekend run:
Thank goodness the weather is finally cooling down! If the temperature is below 75 when we start then I have now considered that to be a cool start!

This weekend I ran a half marathon (13.2 miles) for our long run. It's kind of crazy but I think that anything under 13 miles I can now consider an "easier" long run. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a walk in the park, but I know that I can finish and not be dying. I don't get anywhere near as anxious about this length of runs anymore either--Good news for me. Next week we will be doing a 15 mile run ( this will be the 2nd 15 miler we do)! Hopefully it won't be raining as much this week and I'll actually get to run outside for my weekday runs instead of boring old treadmill runs.

I'm also debating whether I'm going to continue to use my old running shoes during the week and my new shoes for my long runs. I purchased my "old" shoes in June but started to have some knee discomfort a few weeks ago. I thought it was probably just due to the mileage increase but one day I happened to pick up my shoes and they were WORN OUT! Last week I bought a new pair of Mizuno's (my favorite brand of running shoes) and I think they have really made a difference! Here's the problem though..."they", the experts, say that your marathon day shoes should have no more that 100 miles on them for the actual race. Well, as crazy as it sounds, I will definitely be running more than 100 miles between now and November 14th. So...do I buy another pair and break those in at the same time? or keep using my old ones but possible have knee pain. I think I might have to give in and buy another pair (mind you these shoes run $100+)....

I hope you all have a wonderful week! This may be a little cheesy but after a long work week (several long work weeks/months) I've decided to add this quote to my desk at work to help keep me motivated, remember what I want to achieve, and how to be a positive leader on our team.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world"-Gandhi