Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas!!!

Hope Santa brought you everything you asked for!

xo, Sarah

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!

Even if you are not Irish, I hope you have some green on today.  I am only 25% Irish, but I relate more to my Irish heritage then other backgrounds.

I was lucky enough to spend 10 days in Ireland back in the Fall of 2009.  We (me and 5 friends) went to run the Dublin Marathon (still my PR) and stayed for a week driving around the country.  It is seriously a beautiful place and we had such a blast.  The above photo was from our visit to the Cliffs of Moher.

Maybe some day I'll do a post (or two) about the race and our trip.  This fall will be 5 years, so maybe it's time for some reminiscing!

And because no trip to Dublin is complete without a tour of the Guinness brewery, I leave you with proof that I know how to properly pour a pint of Guinness.

Work Holiday Exchange

My team at work decided to do a $5 stocking stuffer exchange within the group.  There are 9 total of us, so everyone needed to by 8 gifts.  When the limit is that small, most of the gifts end up being gag or joke gifts.  For example, I got my boss a mini Nerf gun so she could "shoot us when we get out of line" and the girl in my office who is always cold hand warmers.  There were a lot of dollar store and discount store gifts.  Mine came from Kmart.

Out of the 8 gifts, 6 of mine had to do with running or coffee!  I think my team is trying to tell me something :)

I got:
- Runner's World Boxed Daily Calendar
- iPhone running arm band
- Soothing Aloe socks (for after my long runs)
- 2 (yes, 2) gift cards to Dunkin Donuts
- a set of giant (20 oz) coffee mugs (I am constantly spilling my coffee so my coworker figured just give me a bigger mug)
- Hand cream (I am constantly borrowing everyone's)
- A set of 3 really pretty notebooks

All in all, a great grouping!  Seems my team knows me pretty well!

Happy New Year

Happy 2008! Can't believe its already 2008. Time flies by anymore :) Anyways....rough couple of weeks of running. The holidays are always hard, plus its been very cold out. Was able to get 2 10+ mile runs in, so thats good. Disney is in less then 10 days! I am so excited. Hopefully it will be good weather.