Kensrue plays counting crows...

I love Thrice and I love Dustin Kensrue (the lead singer of Thrice)... infact they are easily one of my favorite bands of my lifetime to date.... here in this vid he plays his take on "Round Here" by the Counting Crows.... I am not much of a fan at all of the Counting Crows. Actually they are wretched for the most part but this song is one of those that resonates in my mind like a sountrack to my life. It seems that today was perfect to hear the original on the radio...it's cloudy and lonely and I am a bit tired. After hearing the OG version I found this video and it just brought something out in me. Every now and again it feels good to be sad; it feels good to feel sorry for yourself; it feels good to be down... it's one of those kind of days and you know... I don't mind at all when I have artists like this to listen to.



Here is another gem!



Only 8 more days until my marathon!!! I am starting to get really nervous! yikes... fingers and toes crossed!

23 Days and counting! Oregon or Bust!

SOOOO this is my last push to the marathon in Eugene, OR. The actual race is May 2nd and I am shooting for a 3 hour and 30 minute marathon time. This is not my first by far.... it's actually my 5th but have never broken 4 hours in the previous races. So as you can imagine this training season has come with a major pace increase. Really off of what my long runs have ended up being this time, I have literally gone from a 9:30 mile to a 7:30 mile. I am hoping to run the first 10 miles of the marathon at a 8:30 pace and then start busting ass. One thing that I always make a top priority in choosing what marathon to run is location. I use this as an excuse for a little vacation more than anything. Ha! I laugh but it is very true. I have been to San Diego, Dallas (white rock), Vermont and Big Sur. So Eugene should not disappoint. Plus this is pretty much the "birthplace of running" as far as I am concerned! Come on.... Prefontaine boys and girls! The race begins right by the University of Oregon Campus and runs through something like 5 state parks.... it is supposed to be fast and FLAT! Which should be golden considering I have been training in Austin; The San Fran of the South... geeze! I am doing this one all by my lonesome and am totally looking forward to it. I needed something like this. This past year my life has taken many turns and gone through many changes. Looking at this as a "finding myself" challenge is what has gotten me through all the wretched long runs that I have endured along the way. Although I am going alone and staying alone while I am in Oregon, I am fortunate enough to have two marvelous friends, Adam and Rebecca, who are willing to up from their new home in Portland and cheer me on. This is very warming due to the fact I have been in that mental state before where you just don't feel as though you can go on.... but just when you think the ocean is swallowing you up, a familiar face on the course or cheering you on breaths new life into you and picks you up out of the water like a life preserver. So how lucky of me that two great people will be there to do just that. This Saturday is becoming some what of a constant anxiety attack for me though..... 21 miles, UGH! Not looking forward to it at all. But alas, I must get it done, and when I do.... believe you me, I will be that much more confident that hitting that 3 and a half hour mark is very possible.... We shall see.

Here's a bit of musica for the day... I absolutely love rocker chick lead singers.

New Blog....

So guys, good afternoon! I decided that I needed something to do... something to release a bit of creative activity out of the ol' brain. I figured a blog is free and you can pretty much do what you want on it. This blog is about evreything that is involved in my life; at THIS point. I am 28 and kinda bored, but also really enjoying certain aspects of what is going on. I will do my best to focus on funny tales and experiences that I have, exercise and music. I will really try not to bring politics into this forum... I am sure that won't be a problem considering I don't really care to much about it anyway. My goal is to post at least 3 times a week. So we shall see. I mean, on the blogs that I follow I get a big frustrated when I get on and there is nothing new for a week. I am not sure how this is going turn out and what my goal is... I guess just to share and speak my mind. I will get on this tomorrow and hopefully we will have some good stuff!

For today I will leave you with this short tale..... so my dear friend Nichole and I went to a Nico Vega concert at Emo's here in town. It was electric! The lead singer Aja Volkman is an amazing singer and quite beautiful to boot.



We met briefly after the show and I stalked her on facebook soon after. With friend request accepted, I wanted to find out if tey were going to be here for the infamous SXSW.... sadly no.... but I did come to learn that Nico Vega is big fans of a group called imagine Dragons. I was urged to go see them live, if at all possible. They are really ridiculous and even more of a pleasure during their live shows, as I came to find out. Took 2 days off from the ol' salt mine and made my way to Guero's for a 2 pm show that I would not soon forget.... here it is... enjoy.