Healthy Stuff

Yesterday, Dirk and I stumbled upon a little festival in downtown Mountain View.  They had food stands, bands, and arts & craft vendors.  I love stuff like that.  Not only is it something different to do, but you can day drink in the streets!  Unlike these type of festivals in PA, you can freely walk around on the street with your wine or beer.  It’s so much nicer that way, rather than being shoved into some sort of side street beer garden.  Thanks archaic Pennsylvania alcohol laws! Anyway, Dirk made friends with a German man named Prince who was selling Bratwursts.  Our new friend snuck us a very tasty German beer on the house.  It’s all about who you know, amirite!? I had corn on the cob on a stick.  Never have I ever seen something so healthy at a street fair.  I had to have one!  I ordered my corn on the cob and was staring at it like….what? it’s not fried in Oreo cookies and covered in liquid Twizzlers?  (Ew, dude.  The thought of that kind of made me throw up in my mouth a little.)

There was some amazing dancing going on if you can tell from the pic

Cherries!

Get at that corn!

We wanted to buy one of these chairs.

I had to follow up the corn with a funnel cake.  Too damn healthy.  Which brings me to my next topic…

I had an idea about running and I wanted to see if you guys were interested.  (Does anyone read this thing anyway?)  Basically, I need to get back into running, but I am having a hard time being motivated.  I was into a great routine when I wasn’t working, but now that I am I find myself running less and less.  Dirk and I went for a quick run on Friday night, and I thought I was going to die.  They say that you lose your cardio fitness within two weeks.  Boy is that true! Anyway, I thought of a way to keep myself motivated, but I need your help.

I have a Nike+ device that Dirk bought me for Christmas last year. I haven’t used it yet, because I didn’t have the right equipment, yada yada.  But now I do.  So my idea is that we could get a bunch of people interested in competing against each other.  We could form teams of runners.  We can set some sort of time limit (like a month) and see which team logs the most miles in that time frame.  Or we could just have everyone be their own team.  We could actually make a small prize for the winner or we could just play for “bragging rights.”  I obviously need to work out some logistics, but it would be helpful to know who is interested first!

Nike+ is pretty cool, because all you need to do is to sync the device to your computer after you run, and it downloads all the data for you.  No worrying about doing tedious admin work like with other workout training programs.  My thought is that if I have people that I actually know to compete against, I will run.  Public shaming works well in terms of motivation.

You will need some equipment to get started:  The Nike+ device which is about $30, either the Nike+ sneakers or the pouch that attaches the sensor to your sneakers, and an iPod touch, iPhone, or newish Nano.  What do you guys think?   You can find out more information here: http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/ and here: http://nikerunning.nike.com/nikeos/p/nikeplus/en_US/plus/#//dashboard/.  If you are interested, please post in the comments!

Oh, and one last thing.  We saw Bridesmaids.  So, so funny.  Go see it – you won’t be disappointed.