This afternoon Team Honduras was united for the Women's Half-Marathon Sunday. We're Team Honduras because 2/3 of the team are living in Honduras and our race day shirts are Honduras soccer jerseys! It may be confusing as none us look anything like Hondurans, but it matters not!
Presently, the latest arrivals have decided to scope out the race course. I ran an easy 4 miles this morning. I'm absolutely the slowest one on the team, but hey... I'M ON THE TEAM! I will run as far as my legs can carry me and then I will zen out on the run and my legs will keep going and when I rejoin my body it'll be over and I'll be getting free stuff at the finish line! Can't wait!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Ugh... Daylight Savings
Nothing makes me happier than the thought of longer evenings spent in the warm glow of a late afternoon sun. A time when I can get off work and still have hours to enjoy the bustling metropolis of Manhattan. HOWEVER, that first day after we "spring forward" and are robbed a precious hour of sleep, I reconsider its value.
"Is it entirely necessary to subject our bodies to this every year?" "Other countries don't practice this ridiculous ritual of moving clocks and therefore confusing everyone?" "Why does my phone jump ahead and not my computer?" All these thoughts were circulating thru my mind yesterday morning as I awoke. And it was a long, arduous day of serving brunch to those who did get to sleep in (i loathe them).
To allow my body to adjust to this immense time shift, I came home and went to bed at 6 p.m. Nevermind that I was several hours behind on sleep from this past week. It definitely had nothing to do with that and everything to do with losing one, single, solitary hour due to daylight savings!
p.s. half-marathon is in 3 weeks!
"Is it entirely necessary to subject our bodies to this every year?" "Other countries don't practice this ridiculous ritual of moving clocks and therefore confusing everyone?" "Why does my phone jump ahead and not my computer?" All these thoughts were circulating thru my mind yesterday morning as I awoke. And it was a long, arduous day of serving brunch to those who did get to sleep in (i loathe them).
To allow my body to adjust to this immense time shift, I came home and went to bed at 6 p.m. Nevermind that I was several hours behind on sleep from this past week. It definitely had nothing to do with that and everything to do with losing one, single, solitary hour due to daylight savings!
p.s. half-marathon is in 3 weeks!
Monday, March 7, 2011
The Unexpected!
Last night marked the closing night of "A Night of One Acts" with Love Creek Productions (that Off-Off Broadway company, of which I am a member). Unbeknownst to Erin, Sunday night's show began at 7 p.m. not 8 p.m. like the two previous nights. Oops!
As I was en route to the theater last night, I received a text message at 7:10 p.m. from my scene partner saying, "Our show started at 7 tonight". Then I checked my email and at 6 p.m. my director had emailed a reminder saying the same thing. Now, I accept full responsibility for not checking the flyer of the program to double-check start times BUT my director and I had exchanged emails earlier in the day and that might have been a better time to remind me OR my scene partner arrived to the theater at 5:30 p.m. and found out our show started at 7 p.m., so a text message from him would have been helpful too! Again, though, I know it was my own fault and thank goodness this is a relaxed group of people and a night of One Acts is easy to shift around a bit.
So we opened the second half after intermission, which was great cause it allowed us to set the stage. We had our best performance of the run (still with dropped lines) and I felt humbled and embarrassed for my mistake, but no one seemed to care. I love Off-Off Broadway! Good lesson to learn early in my career... no one will look out for you, you must be on top of yourself! I don't think I'll ever be late again!
As I was en route to the theater last night, I received a text message at 7:10 p.m. from my scene partner saying, "Our show started at 7 tonight". Then I checked my email and at 6 p.m. my director had emailed a reminder saying the same thing. Now, I accept full responsibility for not checking the flyer of the program to double-check start times BUT my director and I had exchanged emails earlier in the day and that might have been a better time to remind me OR my scene partner arrived to the theater at 5:30 p.m. and found out our show started at 7 p.m., so a text message from him would have been helpful too! Again, though, I know it was my own fault and thank goodness this is a relaxed group of people and a night of One Acts is easy to shift around a bit.
So we opened the second half after intermission, which was great cause it allowed us to set the stage. We had our best performance of the run (still with dropped lines) and I felt humbled and embarrassed for my mistake, but no one seemed to care. I love Off-Off Broadway! Good lesson to learn early in my career... no one will look out for you, you must be on top of yourself! I don't think I'll ever be late again!
Friday, March 4, 2011
MARCH
Hooray! This is the month of Spring! I don't care if it actually gets warmer, the very idea of Spring exists in this month! Spring break for schools is this month! St. Patty's Day is this month (not really sure how much that has to do with Spring). I am very happy to report that this is the final month of training for the half-marathon Rachel (sister) and I will be running! To be perfectly honest, my attention has not been entirely occupied with training so I've got one month to really prepare myself to run 13.1 miles! In fact, I'm heading out to do a lap of Central Park right now. The high today is 34 degrees, but its sunny!
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