hot as balls, hotter than fuck

first night- first mojitos

i love my texan girls

i'm in heaven even though it's hotter than hell

i spent a week in texas. 4 days of work. 3 days of fun. met 5 friends. drank 14 mojitos, 25 cups of coffee, and shared all kinds of stories from race reports to inside jokes about a csi finale. the trip has 2 parts & 2 lessons. both will stay with me.


hot as balls


june 1 tweet from @runnrgrl hot as balls. fuck. texas owns my ass. left my running badass self in canada. 


yeah...that about sums it up. i ran 6.2 miles in about 53 minutes. stopped about 7 times. drank 16 oz of water. at 1 point i stopped sweating for a bit. i wasn't going to have a heart attack, i was merely in texas. the warmest temps i usually face during training are around 70F. since i train in the early mornings, it's rare for the sun to be that warm. that was the hottest run i've ever done.


one of my friends gets up at 4 am on a weekend to get her long runs done before the sun even rises. i cannot grasp the dedication of that commitment. i can't comprehend how people even race in this heat with fast fast times. sure, i'm told i'd acclimatize...yeah maybe...i still think that it takes a special kind of badass to train in the texas heat. every day, my friends forge their toughness in that inferno. i'm humbled. inspired. 


hotter than fuck


for the first time in 16 years, i spent an entire wknd with friends. usually i mix my social life with my work or family time...but this time, i left everything behind. nothing expected of me, nothing owed, no time scheduled or structured. 


it took me about 12 hours to finally pull my shoulders down from my ears. to relax, to finally sink into calmness... i could just simply be myself for me.i let my hair down as i hung out in my signature look of my nightie & cowboy hat ( a gift)  for most of the day on friday. 


when i relaxed, my laugh was for real. i was present and not drifting away lost in my thoughts.we stayed up late talking,confiding, sharing and sometimes crying and mostly laughing. i needed that sanity check weekend. i needed to know that underneath the responsibilities, and meeting everyone's else's needs, i can take a bit of time just for my own.


i exist. the slightly crazy wild part of me.i needed to know that although its been a rough six months, i can still bubble up and see the light and the spark. i haven't lost that ability to be fun, spontaneous, and just soak up every second of life. 


so, when i look at our pics from that wknd, damn, we look hot! how could we not? texas just brings out the sizzle. 

laughing and dancing

my two hot dates on saturday night