{"id":5655,"date":"2014-12-04T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2014-12-04T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T03:29:09","slug":"all-the-things-baby-that-we-could-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/all-the-things-baby-that-we-could-be\/","title":{"rendered":"all the things, baby, that we could be"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m running a 10k on Saturday. It’s the same one I ran two years ago with a gaggle of friends. Per the usual, I’ve been sick on and off, and traveling, and I have a blog, and a life, and I like a home cooked dinner and a relaxing Sunday, and usually I’d rather be doing yoga, and all that\u00a0balance<\/em> and stuff, so I haven’t trained 100 percent to the schedule. I was discussing this with my dad the other day, and he sounded worried. “Don’t worry, Dad, I’m not Nikki. I won’t push myself too hard,” I proclaimed.<\/p>\n

In case you don’t know my sister, she’s the champion of competitive – if you think I am competitive, you’ve got another thing coming. She is the first to beat the heck out of a PR, I’ve seen her train for a triathlon that I at first laughed at (Nikki, swim a mile in open ocean?!), and if you tell her she can’t do something watch out because unless it’s pay attention to someone for a LONG time, she’ll not only DO it, she’ll do it BETTER than you.<\/p>\n

Which, this is all to say I used to be like that, but no longer.\u00a0I am pretty competitive, but at the end of the day I find victory in not over stressing about something that is self imposed (like, say, running a 10k in December.) I used to obsesses over races and psych\u00a0myself out to the point of being so stressed about a race that it just wasn’t enjoyable (Unlike Nikki, who managed to get the competitive genes and also all the mellow genes). But I’ve chilled\u00a0over the past couple of years, and I know this: I can move my body 6.2 miles, whether it’s running or not.<\/p>\n

So I will go, I will run it, I will hopefully beat my 10k PR, and if not, eh, and then hopefully someone will feed me brunch.<\/p>\n

Tonight I went out on my last run before the big one, and it was just a quick (ha! that’s a lie, never let runners tell you anything is that quick) two miles. I figured I would take my 10k playlist for a run and see how it went, and I would try to truly run the whole two miles (I almost always stop for a little walk\/death in the middle of my runs, usually up the one hill I’ve decided to incorporate into my route.)<\/p>\n

It didn’t go as planned. Instead of running the whole time, I got stopped for a few minutes when a stranger asked for directions. It always baffles me how often this happens to me (I do life in Hollywood, so there are tourists, but still) when I am RUNNING. But I guess people see a runner and figure they must live somewhere around here, and therefore can help them out? Anyways, needless to say I was a little bummed but I still ran a pretty consistent pace and managed a PR for this training.<\/p>\n

And so, tomorrow will be yoga, and an early bedtime, and Saturday will be Santas and lots of families and racers for the Venice Holiday run. And I will finish. And if someone stops me for directions, I won’t sweat it. And then, brunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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