Anyway, the qualifying time for my age group is 3 hours, 40 minutes, which translates to just under 8:30/mile pace. For 26.2 miles. OR, I could just wait until I'm 80, when I'll have a leisurely 5 hours and 30 minutes to qualify. BAH. What's stopping me from running my ass into the ground and training for a qualifying time NOW, you ask? SHUT UP, that's what. Leave me to my bitterness.
*I tried to bring AD to see the mall Easter Bunny this weekend. *SIGH* *Punches desk repeatedly*. Do I even need to go on with this story?
*Would you like to see the most depressing picture ever taken of me?
Putting aside the fact that I'm on my hands and knees cleaning up some kind of Toxic Spill, while The Spiller looks on in glee, LOOK AT MY HAIR! People, I have not had a haircut in OVER A YEAR, and this is how I wear my hair ALL THE TIME. I'm wearing it like that NOW. At WORK. What haircut do you recommend for someone with straight, limpish hair who also requires a morning hair "routine" of five minutes or less? Where that five minutes also includes a shower?
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Um, maybe a cute little bob? They're low maintenance. Or a pixie? Do you like super short hair?
AD needs another lesson in cleaning. Maybe your mom should come back and give her some intensive training?
Three hours and forty minutes?! For your age group?! I am younger than you and am hoping to straggle across the finish line in under 5 hours at a much smaller marathon. Apparently, I have no hope of ever running in Boston.
What were your times in the other marathon(s) you have run? Am I just really, really slow?
Stephanie-We are in the same age group (the first age bracket is 18-34). I've done two marathons. My time in the first one was around 5 hours. I think that is a great goal for a first-timer. I know I just wanted to finish.
My second marathon time was 3:57 which is pretty good for me. I was running with BR though and so I don't know if I would do that well running on my own without him to push (slash annoy) me.
I haven't had a haircut in over a year either. My hair is getting pentecostal long. Seriously, I'm getting looks.
Have either of you ever run the NY Marathon? I love that one. Watching it, of course. Not running it. I'll leave that to people who have "runner's world" subscriptions.
I suggest a layered style in the vicinity of chin to shoulder length. Layers add volume and at that length you can still pull it (or part of it) back if need be.
Also, this is the second time in what? A week? That I have felt like proposing that BR get punched. Is this bad?
Also, to answer your question from last week, yes I love SATC and can't wait for the movie to come out. My parents gave me the complete series on DVD for Christmas 2006 and I have made Torsten watch the WHOLE SERIES with me in preparation for the movie.
For your hair, how about something just above your shoulders, razor cut on the ends (this will give it a natural little flip at the ends) and cut into your face a little. You'll still be able to pull it back for running, but you won't have to do anything with it in the morning. Do I sound like I know what I'm talking about? Ha! I just got this exact cut for my straight, limp hair!
I've only been brave/fit enough to run in the Race for the Cure.
If you like short hair, I highly recommend it. My hair is pretty much dry by the time I get dressed and color in my eyebrows.
I also have straight limp hair that is also pathetically thin. And my morning routine is wash and go. I don't even bother with drying. I also cannot remember my last haircut, except that I'm pretty sure J was about 2-3 months old (she is almost 17 months now). I used to have bangs and the rest of my hair cut slightly longer than shoulder length with long layers and tapered around my face, but now my bangs are at my upper lip and my hair is about mid-shoulder-blade. I don't know what to do about it or when exactly I'll be able to do something.
Oh, and also... my running time was always pathetically slow. As in about 10 1/2 minute miles that I only sustained for 3 miles. Actually does that even qualify as a running time, or is that more of a sort of walking fast/pathetic jogging time?
I think I do need to hear the story of the mall Easter bunny after all. But I think I have a good idea of the main plot/theme.
You guys are so down on yourselves about your running! ANY running, at any pace, for any distance, is totally respectable!
TLA-I would love to do NYC someday. BR and I actually applied to the lottery and got in several years back. It happens at a really crappy time of year for me though, when I absolutely CANNOT take off work. So that sucks. And BR is cranky that it would be too crowded.
Hey, we have the same hair routine! I let mine air dry almost every day, which really cuts down on the split ends and the whole needing-to-get-it-cut routine, so less work all around. I think the lowest maintenance cut I ever had was a relatively short bob.
I too have the straight limp hair. Mine is in the exact same style. My hairdresser has talked me into a post-pregnancy perm and I'm wondering if that is a terrible terrible idea. I loved having a bob but it certainly wasn't low maintenance (just lowER). my hair was so flat if just hung there unless I at least did the blow-dry/round brush thing.
p.s. - just thinking about excercise gives me contractions so I'm not touching the running subject
Tess...you should get a haircut! What about split ends after all this time???
As far as styles, I'm hopeless and I can feel your pain as you and I have the EXACT same type of hair, just different colours. Actually, right before Thanksgiving I got it cut WAY SHORT...SERIOUSLY WAY SHORT and it was really cute, and I got lots of compliments on it, but then after a couple of weeks I was all "I WANT my long hair back!!" :-( I'm still sullen. So, all that to say, DON'T CUT IT ALL OFF!!
I want details on the mall trip to see the Easter Bunny! PLEASE provide me with some entertainment on Monday.....
I am in the same boat. My hair is out of control and I mostly just do not care. I did pick up one of those hair styling magazines at Kroger the other day and saw cute long hair styles that looked relatively easy. I guess I just need to make the appointment and GO TO the appointment.
Layers it seems is the way to go for the lazy women's style or a bob but a bob requires more upkeep and maintenance from a girl who had a bob for like 15 years, esp. a short bob..
There is always shaving your head... I kid.
I, too have fine, limp hair and I suggest cutting it. Short and layered...then in the morning just add some Catwalk Root Boost and blow dry upside down for added volume and lift. I then hit it with cold air.
Mine is longer in the front and all spiked out in the back so I follow up with some ShortSexyHair play dirty dry wax.
Takes all of 5 minutes depending on how hot your blow drier is. But, it looks like I spent a lot of time on it.
My kind of hair style!
I haven't had my hair cut since November. Oops. I keep forgetting about it. May I ask why that picture was even taken? Do you and BR frequently photograph each other doing household chores?
Um, no help with the hair. My requirement is: looks good with now blow dryer required. I am way too lazy for all of that.
Sorry about the crabbiness, but I love your kitchen.
Ooooh wee! I hear ya on the Boston bitterness. I should send you an email where I release all my bitterness at various fitness goals of un-knocked-up husband while I got pregnant FIVE TIMES (2 of which resulted in babies) over 3years. I sat on the sidelines of three marathons and an ironman while pregnant slash recovering-from-miscarriage. BAH.
BUT NOW IT'S MY TURN! That's partly why I'm so motivated now. Though there is still bitterness about how I have to get up at 3:30am on a Thursday to nurse the baby and then do the long run before work, while he rolls out of bed on Saturday at 6:30am and announces he'll be out running for the next 3 HOURS. WHA?
Nevermind the email. I'll just rant on and on in your comments section.
-R-, my MOM took that picture. She thinks everything AD does, including spilling shit, is PRESHUS and PHOTO-WORTHY.
Well...Tyra says slicking your hair back is "fierce". You're fierce every day then, even at work. Hey, maybe BR will get his picture on the front cover of the Boston Marathon SI issue...which would be bad. It happened to my bestfriend's FIL. Right smack dab in the middle. It would be bad because it should be you.
Is this a subtle way to tell us that there's an AD2 in the works? Teehee!
I was training for a marathon last year too. It was eat Taco Bell and not kill your in-laws marathon.
My time, not so great, but still the outcome? Fantastic.
Sorry, I'm mesmerized by your fancy fridge.
This picture makes me think of the show "The Secret Life of Soccer Moms" that was on last night where a little girl was drinking CREAMER straight out of the bottle (OMG) when left alone with her dad and then spilled it all over the floor. She cleaned up the mess herself though. (and by that I mean spread it all over the place while simultaneously spilling more by continually knocking over the bottle)
Am no help on the hair as I have opposite type of hair but have also not cut it in over a year.
I'm in awe of runners. If you see me running, someone is chasing me.
I have no haircut tips, as mine was lame and bad, and now I need a new one. I typically walk into a strange new hair dresser place and say, "cut me. With Layers. Lots." And I take what I can get.
Not recommended.
Sorry about the marathon bitterness.
Oh...I forgot to mention...I don't blame AD one bit. The Mall Easter Bunny scares the beejeevies out of me. I mean a giant pastel blue/pink bunny rabbit??? Eeek! Although, the mall by us has a newer, kinder, less garish looking, brown Peter Rabbit type bunny (come to think of it I think it is a Beatrix Potter Rabbit) but still...a GIANT BUNNY? Run!
I'd be bitter too, if I weren't entirely too lazy (AND SCARED) to train for a 5 K.
Heh.
"The Spiller!" Too funny. Also, she is adorable, though I think she may have a bit of The Devil in her.
I am definitely still a fan of my short haircut. I have lots of hair, but it's thin and limp. The cut is slightly longer in front and then angles shorter toward the back with some layers to give it body. Yay for hair volume!
My morning routine is to throw in styling mousse (sometimes), dry with a round brush (sometimes) and GO. Less than 5 minutes. And if I don't care about sleek ends, it still looks good. Plus, whenever I'm exercising (NEVER), I use a bobby pin to pin the bangs out of my way.
I understand your crabiness and it would piss me off too. NOT FAIR. I have a friend who qualified and ran the Boston marathon (she qualified via the Chicago marathon) and she HATED it, which is kind of weird and I'm not sure I know enough to understand why she hated it, but she said it kind of sucked, so there's that.
As for hair, you should get your hair cut at an angle, so it's long in the front and then it hangs better and gives more volume in the back. I have such fine hair that sometimes I'm not sure I have hair at all, but this angle cut makes it better.
I think you are aware of my most-recent slash FIRST TIME EVER GETTING A PROFESSIONAL hair cut. So I don't have much advice.
Also, I can't imagine ever really running a marathon, although I am signed up for the Shamrock Shuffle at the end of the month which is a whopping 8k. Impressive, I know.
Wow. Most pointless comment ever.
Pentecostal long- HA!
Anyway, I have totally boring straight flat hair too and I never know what to do with it. I go to the stylist, I say "I have totally boring straight flat hair and I never know what to do with it."
They cut in some layers that are allegedly supposed to give it volume and shit and it inevitably looks exactly the same.
All this to say, good luck with that!
I tried to teach SD how to clean up, so I hand her a paper towel, she pretty much just smears it around on the floor, not absorbing any of it. I figure it is a start though!
Oh my god I am so with you on the hair thing. I had a dream last night that my hair was down to my waist and it looked like Cousin It. And I have no idea what to do with it either. I'm sick of it being so long but once you go short then you've got the whole "maintenance" thing.
For you, if your hair is straight and doesn't do the frizzy/wavy thing like mine, then I'd go with a shoulder length bob. Very easy to deal with and still a length you do a ponytale if need be.
I can't quite wrap my head around offering sympathy that you don't qualify for a marathon (nothing personal just can't relate in even a tiny way) but can offer big sympathy that hubbies get through pregnancy unscathed. I'm thinking perhaps I need to ratchet up the bitch quotient so he at least has some emotional consequences.
I have to say that I was with Shelly: my first thought after all of that was, "Baby? Is there a BABY coming?"
No BABY, you...baby pushers! I didn't mean that I was bitter currently, only that I was STILL bitter from LAST TIME.
I'm going to second the bob suggestion. I have one and it sounds like we have similar hair and morning hair routines. I find it looks great even when I do nothing with it (which is, you know, always).
Hey, that is my hair, too! I like to get it cut JUST long enough to tuck stably behind my ears. It looks "styled" that way, yet can be washed and tucked and done.
18-34 is the same age group???? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! *wipes tears*
Tessie. First I have to admit, I've been stalking your blog for a few weeks now without commenting. Your stories make me laugh out loud! Second, about the haircut, DO NOT get one of those long in front, short in back bobs. They might look cute for a few minutes, but then months later (when you haven't gotten a haircut) it just looks all wonky and weird (sorta like the opposite of a mullet...and no I don't have a cut like this, just seen plenty of people with it, it looks terrible all grown out). My hair is sorta fine and limp like yours, and being in Texas too (I'm down by the gulf) the humidity does crazy things to everyones hair. I just get a few longer layers, spray a little volumizing spray on the roots, blow-dry upside-down (with brush if you want to take more time) and smooth with a spritz of some shine spray. On a really crazy hair day, a flat iron on the ends can work wonders. Good luck!
Last week a coworker whispered that maybe I should go "just take a quick peek" at my hair because "it possibly got a bit wind-blown." When I looked in the bathroom mirror, I realized it looked exactly how it always does, because it is just like that.
That was sort of a good moment in my life.
This was hilarious! Sorry to laugh at your misfortunes, but it was hard not to!
My husband is currently pulling the whole "I don't want to get fat just because you're pregnant thing" and when he refuses to eat any ice cream, while I shovel in a half gallon, it really starts to piss me off.
How about some bangs ala Nicole Richie?
My vote on the hair is - jsut get it trimmed...I'd love all one length hair, even if you do pull it back most of the time...especially with summer jsut around the corner.
As for using pregnancy as your excuse on the running...Did you read about Paula Radcliffe WINNINg the NY marathon 10 months after giving birth...
sorry sista, AD is older than 10 months....
Just joking with you, I totally understand your pain as I'm attempting to qualify as well after baby #2, maybe won't be for a few years, BUT I will get there.
Go with a Katie Holmes-esque bob. Trust me. My routine involves drying in front of the vent in my car. I have thin, limp hair and recently sprouted my first grays. GGGRRRRR. Gotta get some color in there to cover that S--T up!
First of all, I just cut my hair (okay... not just. In December. But it still feels like just) and I love it. I had never had it short, I about broke into hives when my stylist said, "so, a bob?" after I described what I wanted. "NO!" I protested. "Bobs are for adults and Victoria Beckham." But now I think it is a bob and I also think I love it.
Secondly, about a month before I cut my hair, I started training for my first half-marathon. I'm doing Team In Training so I'm running, raising money, yada yada. Even with the coaching and help, I can't imagine running a full one (but one step at the time). I am interested in hearing more running stories if you have any. I like how you have to run 26 miles in 3:40 and I will be pleased as punch to run 13 miles in that same time.
And now, drumroll please, to tie these two thoughts into one - when I decided to get my hair cut, my sister said "oh you should do locks for love!" to which I replied - "ONE philanthropic project at a time!" God forbid people think I'm a do-gooder - I have a reputation to protect!!!
Love your blog!
PS - Does BR talk like the idiots on the MTV Gauntlet? I read the things he "says" on here in Danny's voice. Am I way off?
Lindsay, would you believe that the Gauntlet is the one show in all of television that I don't watch?
Was Danny on the Real World? They always seem to have a Token Boston Guy, and if so chances are good BR sounds like him. He's pretty much Token Boston Guy all the way.
Best of luck on your Half Marathon!
Yes: Danny from Austin, engaged (for like four years) to his housemate Melinda? Talks like one of the New Kids On The Block?
Yes: Danny from Austin, engaged (for like four years) to his housemate Melinda? Talks like one of the New Kids On The Block?
all I have to say is thank god for all of you and your hair issues, my hair has spent the better part of the last 4 months in a pony tail and with summer around the corner I dont plan on changing that..
I am soo sick of never getting a good haircut no matter how much or little I pay for one .. so I am on strike from going to a "stylist" who never seems to do what I ask for .. apparently there is some "stylist language" that I didnt learn in middle school 20 years ago
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