Summertime...

Summer has always been my favourite time of year...strawberries are in season and it's beachtime and nothing beats running in just a sports bra and shorts and cute sundresses and free concerts in NYC parks and biking to work in short skirts and halter tops and Burning Man prep and mojitos and hiking and wearing very little clothes and everyone's in a good mood and super fun races and swimming in creeks and all day runs at Bear Mtn with Iliana and grass and my kickass fire escape garden and walks in the park with Luna...

I guess I have to figure out some races. Some (ahem) believe I race too much, but I don't race that much. I run a lot, but I have key races. I hope to do well at Pineland Farms 50 Miler, and Rio del Lago 100 Miler. There are plenty of races in between, but I'll treat those as training runs. Like Peaks 50 Miler, if I do it...Iliana and I will end up chatting most of the time, catching up.

Last summer was so fun...weekends I spent at the beaches, dancing at sweat-and-glitter covered parties, running long w Iliana, eating watermelon on the sweaty car rides, running on the beach, running home from work, sewing glittery and shimmery costumes with Rachelle, making mojitos with mint from my fire escape garden....

This summer will be better. Trail runs, Bear Mountain, watermelon, beaches, surfing with Cindy-Kim, drinking delicious wine, trying to find stars, prepping for Burning Man (Hello, how do we build a monkey hut?), good friends. I need to learn to not get stressed (like how I started crying at work), to not care if my apt is a little dirty, to combine all sorts of things, to manage my time. Like seeing friends while running 100 kilometers, that sort of thing. Running to the beach and then chilling there after. Doing the bike to the beach/Grandma thing more. Burning Man craft nights with good wine or mojitos and the girls. Writing in cafes with JP. Dancing in various bikinis.

And being in love makes everything even better...

summer is coming to a close

and i am filled with sadness.

the #1 reason why i love roosevelt island for running

water flying through the air!

roosevelt island is one of the few places in nyc with sprinklers on their lawns, plus they have several playgrounds with those water sprinkler things that kiddies run through! this is relief on a hot day's run!

what i've been up to lately

i love summertime. it's my favourite season. even as my kneepits are sweaty on this sultry summer evening, i'm so happy. running is fun--sports bras and shorts (or running skirts!). crazy street parties. block parties. ice cream. italian ices. free concerts. last week i saw superchunk, manu chao and bob dylan--all outdoors. i went to the beach. i went to a rooftop party.

this weekend, i'll be running 22 miles, going to the kickass danger party, going to the beach. add a trip to the farmer's market to snag some strawberries before the season ends, read on the grass. maybe do some organizing of stuff in my house, some writing. should be fun.

top 10 things of this friday night

as i sweat gently in my apartment, still not sure what i'm wearing but i know i'm going out, i just wanted to make a list of ten fab things i'm enjoying this lovely evening:

1. fruit. i LOVE fruit, especially when it's ripe and delicious in the summertime. yum.
2. fancy delicious drinks, like the pear-lime martini i had earlier.
3. madonna's good songs, singing along.
4. good drum n bass that makes me wanna dance--that sustains me as i walk along wall street.
5. my new white fabulous shoes!
6. loads of fab vegetarian cookbooks from the library.
7. dreams of traveling, revived by a fat stack of lonely planets on my bedroom bookshelf.
8. how much i like the way i rearranged my furniture in my bedroom.
9. loud good techno bouncing out of a car's open windows when i'm on my way somewhere fun, possibly with an italian ice in my hand.
   
10. feeling free and happy and full of life in the summertime!