Thursday, May 23

4:30 am: Wake up, hydrate/caffeinate (thanks, nuun for combining the two), eat breakfast #1 (English muffin with honey), prepare enough bags to meet my daily quota to maintain my bag lady status.

#stillretired

6:00 am Arrive at the gym (this is why I wake up so early. It takes me for-ev-er to get out the door in the morning ESPECIALLY when I know the elliptical is waiting for me.)

#overit #iword #recovery

6-7:30 am quick elliptical warm up (write running update blog post on phone. Yes, clearly I was working very hard), leg workout, planks, stretch/foam roll.

7:30 am Commute to work on one of these.

DC is a super bike friendly city and has a MASSIVE bikeshare program. I bought an annual membership to Capital Bikeshare off of some groupon type deal for 30 bucks and got a year of unlimited rides out of it. There is a docking station approximately every half block so they’re convenient for riding just about anywhere.

7:45 am Stop at Starbucks and pick up breakfast #2 (spinach and feta wrap)

7:50 am Arrive at my office. Change in the gym locker room.

BagLady4Life

8:00 am Desk time. Consume caffeine (iced tea x 2), snack (peanut butter pretzels)

11:30 am Join coworkers for a midday jaunt around the mall. 4 miles. Longest/best run yet. Finish up with stretching/lacrosse balling/icing. Silently mourn the days of 8 mile lunch runs that I will no longer be able to squeeze in with all this injury prevention crap.

Just in case you forgot I’m in the club. (#stillretired)

1 pm: Inhale lunch before an afternoon of meetings (sandwich with veggies and cheese. Baby carrots with yellow mustard. Clif kids bar, brownie flavor.)

3 pm: Back at desk. Snack (more peanut butter pretzels). Get message from the banana that I should fly to Seattle for a weekend of plank/cheer/beering. Look at flights. Decide it would be financially irresponsible to drop a rent payment on a last minute cross country flight. Back to work.

Receive another message, this one from the Eugene Police Department who has located contents from my stolen wallet, one month after the theft. Calm panicked OUaL who is worried they are actually calling because voodoo reported her for stealing a cereal covered donut.

Stay at work a little later than planned because it’s a busy week for us. Skip pilates.

6:45 pm Go to Happy Hour at my new favorite spot.

Drink Avery Maharaja (x 2), which I first discovered in Denver last summer and remains among the best beers I’ve ever tasted. When I found out it was a happy hour beer at GBD, I couldn’t resist sneaking a couple  in before my dinner plans. Luckily, I only had time for two. This beer is dangerously delicious and dangerously strong.

8 pm: meet up with four other girls for a dining experience at Thai X-ing.

Emphasis on experience. Thai X-ing is a hole in the wall Thai place that is located in what seems to be the couple’s apartment. I’ve wanted to go for years after hearing friend after friend rave about the place. The menu varies by night and they bring you heaps and heaps of thai food, served family style. My favorite dishes were the pumpkin curry, the eggplant tofu and the mango sticky rice, but everything was ridiculously delicious.  And spicy. It’s also BYOB, which we took full advantage of with a few armfuls of wine.

Need a food blogger? Call me!

11 pm Roll home. Fall asleep immediately.