We survived Hurricane Irene! It wasn’t much of a hurricane by the time it hit Philly. Other than lots of rain, the wind wasn’t too bad. Luckily, we didn’t lose power or suffer any water damage to our house. I can’t say the same for my beloved running trail. It was swallowed up by the Schuylkill River. Hawk and I went on a little walk yesterday to survey the damage first-hand (I’m a bad blogger and didn’t bring my camera). Yikes! I feel terrible for the people that live around there; they had to evacuate. So I should quit my complaining about finding an alternate running route for the next few days.
I dubbed this past weekend my “getting caught up on life” weekend. If I’m gonna be stuck inside, why not tackle my to-do list? On the top of my list was cleaning out my closet and finally hanging this up…
I love it. It got this back in December and picked out the perfect spot for it (yes, my closet – it’s a large walk-in and I figured it would be out of the way). I hung half marathons on the end and marathons in the middle. That’s a lot of races!
My favorite medal would have to be the NJ Marathon. Pretty classy for Jersey (I kid, I kid).
Hawk didn’t seem too perturbed about the hurricane.
Matt and I were well stocked with essentials.
We tried to watch the movie True Grit but could not get over Jeff Bridges talking out the side of his mouth. We literally could not understand a word he said and turned off the movie. House Hunters was way better anyway.
In running news, I moved my tempo run to Saturday because of the hurricane and ended up doing an easy run. My legs were NOT in the mood for more MP miles the day after a 22-miler. So I kept it easy and my super Type A self didn’t seem to mind. Imagine that.
If you were trapped in the house this weekend because of Irene what did you do?
Do you watch House Hunters or (even better) House Hunters International? We are obsessed.
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That’s a LOT of medals! How many races have you done? I didn’t use the time wisely and organize everything. I cooked lunches and dinners for next week, cleaned, and planned lessons. But also a lot of laying around watching movies. I LOVED True Grit though – you should give it another try! I usually hate any action movies but that was a good one. I guess you and I were lucky bloggers who didn’t lose power!
We were trapped in the house, but we didn’t have power, so we just stared at each other. I wish I was joking. 🙂
OMG – I watched tons of House Hunters yesterday! Always on when you need it and always entertaining. Also, all my trophies, medals, etc are in my closet at home (walk in as well) because, I agree, it keeps them out of the way and tends to be a good place for it (ie you can see every day!).
Where did you get that medal-hanging thing? It’s so cute – I love it! This was definitely a great weekend to get caught up on stuff – I cleaned, organized my closet, and just chilled out. It was kind of nice, actually 🙂
Hi Kelly – I got it at http://www.heavymedalz.com/. It’s a great idea. Before that, all my medals were in a shoebox 🙁
I’m glad you were not negatively impacted much. That’s great. And holy crapballs, but that’s a lot of races.
I love the medal display. So amazing. I have one as well!! Can’t get enough 🙂 Glad you did not get hit too bad, same here 🙂 🙂
Go NJ for having the best medal on that rack. I ordered one of these babies but haven’t hung it up yet. It’s on my to-do list with a bunch of other things.
Glad you were safe during the hurricane. We wanted to stay in and watch movies on Sunday but instead got hit w/ no power… PSE&G ghetto-rigged it for us and now we just need to wait for the electrician to get to the house so we can be like normal civilians with meters hanging on the side of the house — not on the ground with dangling wires that look dangerous.
i love those medal hangers! all of mine are just on the back of a closet door.
so glad you are safe and yes, i LOVE house hunters international. especially the episodes in tropical destination! 🙂