Wendy Mastripolito

What kinda OF KARMA do I emit to attracts the crazies!!!???.... I mean really.... who else has someone jump on the track in front of them, TRYING TO STOP THEM, in the middle of a race? SO I arrive in Tom’s River NJ this am for the USATF NJ Indoor Track and Field Championships . The goal was to see how my training was progressing and to obtain some points for my Philly Masters Track & Field Club. On arrival I was kinda intrigued by the whole Saran Wrapped looking indoor track... but kinda freaked about the vacuumed sealed rotating doors that made your ears pop... I love track meets.... unlike road races where you can usually only see the runners start and end.. in track you can see every painful mile... I had hoped to run the 3,000 & 1,500 meter races.. however a slight twinge in the shin caused me to ditch the 1,500. Prior to the start of the women’s race I was talking to a lady who made mention that she had recently been to France and raced the 3,000 meter there.. WTF!..I thin...

I am sitting here at work with my coffee and an apple.. HOW UTTERLY BORING is that!!! ...I am trying to behave… dreaming of a French pastry or nice cinnamon scone… sigh … its that time of year (in March) that I have to drop the extra 5 pounds that I carry in the winter to keep me warm.. OH YEAH… it’s a great excuse (carrying an extra 5) to be able to eat what I want and so on through the holidays.. but now it's time to get serious… GOTTA be able to run like a cheetah come spring… I think I may starve to death…. this will not go well… I AM MOST CERTAINLY SURE I WILL STARVE TO DEATH..!! Whinny girl… NO cheese steaks tonight… Cutting back overall… SIGH

Wendy GOT THE BABY in the king cake !!!!! Good luck for a year!!!!.... (or does that mean I will get pregnant??) Yikes!!! For those who have NO IDEA what a king cake is… here is a bit of history I googled ..(I crossed out the part where I am suppose to bring a King Cake to the next party or gathering… and added my own comments in red…) The New Orleans tradition, begun in the 1870s, borrows heavily from European customs. As part of the celebration of Mardi Gras , it is traditional to bake an oval cake in honor of the three kings - the King Cake. The shape of a King Cake symbolizes the unity of faiths. Each cake is decorated in the traditional Mardi Gras colors: purple represents justice, green represents faith and gold represents power. A small baby, symbolizing the baby Jesus, is baked into each cake. In New Orleans, King Cake parties are held throughout the Mardi Gras season. In offices, classrooms, and homes throughout the city, King Cakes are sliced and enjoyed by all. Like th...

HARDY HAR HAR … well you all will have a field day with this.. Today at work... well... I didnt realize that between the time I put my pants on at home this am... and well POTTY TIME at work... .. that well.. my zipper was broken... stuck.. STAGNANT.. UNMOVING... THE D-MN ZIPPER WONT LET ME OUT OF MY PANTS!!!!.... HMMM.. dilemma… so what to????..... maybe try and shimmy them down...??... wrestle.. wrestle… pull.. pull.. GRRR… NOPE… not stretchy material.. no way getting that over that... STUCK IN PANTS… WTF... NO WAY OUT… I am stuck with the JUNK IN THE TRUNK!!!!! I resound to the fact that I will just have to wait until I get home.. I can hold it for another 3 hours or so... then I will just cut the blasted pants off... !!!.....SNIP SNIP! So why when you FEEL trapped that all of a sudden the urge magnifies... and you really really HAVE TO GO... so I bring up this issue to gal here at work.. she says.. here is a needle and thread try again… HMM.. ok… so back to facilities.. try to unzi...

Laying here, feet propped up in order to redistribute the blood flow correctly and to stop the pulsating throbbing in the leggies... wondering if going to bed at 5pm is too early... Joe and I had our “long run” today.. . we knew after yesterdays quick 6 miler and the subsequent 2 hour MTB adventure ...not to expect too much... but boy was that an overstatement....half way through our 10 mile run...there is a hill ...a real ugly type hill... one of those really LONG seems like FOREVER hills...well today I was feeling a little "Off" and I promised myself that if I made it up “Suicide Hill”... if I ran the whole freaking way up it... that I would stop at the top ...for just a second...to rest-tee-po a bit.. Although my first thought was of throwing myself on the ground to see if when Joe caught up to me if he would step on me or over me ..... so after reaching the pinnacle of that hateful hill I stopped for a few seconds and took a glance behind me.. YES.. still no Joe... See t...

Well …..we woke up bruised and battered from our fun, relaxing MTB (Mountain Bike) ride yesterday. Yeah, I was EXHAUSTED... thrown off bike twice… Joe flipped off bike too... traction was awful... I want to say fun ride.. and it was…but what a mud fest…you should have seen Joe's flip.. he attempted to go over a rather LARGE log…. jumping it with the bike.. um the bike stopped but he didnt.. he did like a midair dive tuck forward roll.. I guess all that Karate he took as a kid paid off... clap… clap.. clap…. …9.5…9….9.5….perfect 10… yahoo.. My first catapult happened when the back wheel totally slipped out from under me in the mud as I was sailing down a small hill and I went flying off to the left without my bike… I ended up on my back looking up at the sky, with Jill (the gal riding behind me) looking down at me… “You alright” she said…. “ UM YEAH”.. I picked myself up out of the mud and back on bike… onward… second time same thing, fly off to left, Jill look down at me.. ... po...

OMG I am like a giant salt lick now... NaCl.. Sodium Chloride...I accidentally opened the wrong side of the salt shaker on top of the cheese fries.. now not only did we have cheese steaks and cheese fries they are now smothered in salt... 900 calories for the cheese steak... 870 calories for the cheese fries.....I THINK I AM GOING TO DIE.... Excerpt taken from the web: Running and diet. Running does not increase appetite. In fact,exercise tends to diminish it, acting as a suppressant. "For better running, watch what you eat and when you eat it," is the advice of the Running with George web page. Runners pay close attention to their diets, as most runners try to maintain a balanced diet that is low in fat. What part of bullsh-t is this.

Tonight is.. Cheese steak night ... YES!!! ... YES!!!!... YES!!!!!!.... We allot at least one night a week to go "WILD"... to purge all nutritional and rational thoughts out the window! .... To throw chance to the wind.. to P-I-G.. O-U-T .....no matter how bad something is you can usually gain something from it.. RIGHT??... "Man... did u see that new VS catalog...that will stop anyone from eating"... SIGH...... Spring is coming....Cheese steak night may have to go bi-weekly...

A term used in road biking and can be applied to mountain biking....on Sunday, Joe and I met up with a few fellow mountain bikers in order to have a nice leisurely trail ride... to clear out "the engines"…. W ell I do believe Mr. Mastripolito should be flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct… SEE...I was minding my OWN business, following the group... humming with the birds and bees... in complete eurphoria from lack of oxygen (JEEZ US what gear did I have the bike in up that last hill!!!!)...and I accidentally hooked his back tire.... somehow..... (he says I was trying to pass him).. . and well he SOMEHOW managed to keep my tire attached to his tire as we rode and then he made some sort of "fancy maneuver" that sent ME and my bike screaming to the right into the woods, barely missing a tree thank you very much..and off he went …B_STARD....!!! hmmm. SOO... I brought this up to the group.. what this maneuver could be.. and they said it's called hooking .. .. it...

I have concluded that either it’s ...the lack of oxygen from being further up north.. or it’s something in the smog... that makes people CRAZY here on the East Coast.... Not only are MOST East Coast people work-a- holics .. they drive like they are going to put out a fire.... I mean today is President’s Day.. so you think light traffic..??… Right? WRONG!... in the span of the 30 minutes it took me to drive to work.. I was almost run INTO twice.. I was tailgated by someone who looked like they had WAY too much coffee ..( and yes I was going the speed limit..)… and then there was the OH I am MUCH more important that you person… who decided that he could talk on his cell phone, read the paper and drive like he was the only person on the road... so you think.. ok ...well maybe people are just a bit hyped up for whatever reason…their valentine’s day sucked… the economy sucks… they suck…who knows.. but when does it stop????!!! Joe and I almost get run over EVERY time we go out for a run ...

Gearing Up ....for some MTB today with my new SUPER COOL mountain biking helmet that Santa brought me. Joe and I will be meeting "Admiral" Tony and team for some fun and adventure. Trying to understand why it's in the 20's when it was so lovely last week.. oh yeah it's only February. Sigh... ...aint this the COOLEST helmet ever!!!! (no nasty comments!)

Some Valentine's Day Snow.. go figure... Finally took down the outside Christmas Tree lights (yeah I know) about time since its almost March...got a run in.. took a nap.. life is good... HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

Depressing… T he PA State Snowshoe Championship tomorrow is now a trail run … no snow….( sigh) ….do we drive the 2 hours to run a trail run?..... ( double sigh) ... Someone sent everyone in my hotmail address book spam.... ( triple sigh) … So I had to delete my entire email contact list just to be sure… (quadruple sigh) I spent two weeks working on a super cool Valentine's present for my sweetie ..and it came out WRONG. ..( quadrillion sighs)… I guess things could be worse.. It could be Friday the 13 th …… "Face it, you're screwed. Today is Friday the 13 th — the unluckiest day on the calendar — so try not to crash your car, fall down a flight of stairs, set yourself on fire, or do anything else that might compromise your well-being. And for God's sake, stay away from men in hockey masks. "(from Time.com article by By CLAIRE SUDDATH Friday, Feb. 13, 2009)

I hate passwords….. UGH GRRR … on the internet it appears everything from shopping, logging into a club, or accessing medical benefits is passworded…..it’s great for security... but HOW the HECK are you suppose to remember all the different user names and passwords!??? ....This blog has a password, my email has a password, facebook has a password, each of the clubs I am in are passworded… just to open my computer at work is passworded… the screen saver is passworded… to get to my college papers is passworded.. .. and the fact you are suppose to make up a different passwords for each thing, and make the passwords difficult.... do they not understand I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast let alone a K-Trillion user names and passwords.. !!! I guess what brought this to light is I was trying to access my health benefits online and it’s passworded.. so I put in my user id and supposed password.. and NO .. not valid.. so I try another password.. NOPE .. and then another.. NADDA .....

How can this sweet little thing cause so much chaos??!! My cousin seems to think we will have the longest living animals in PA… our two cats.. are both 19 years old this year… and our dog is 17….. and they all seem to be happy and in relatively good health.. although they are getting blind, deaf, and dumb… Our dog is a Lhasa Apso … and in talking with someone regarding how old she was… they stated that their Lhasa lived to be 20 years old and would have lived longer had not his wife accidentally ran it over with her car.. and how freaking sad!!! (but was that really an accident???) See for the last 5 years Joe and I have been rotating duties in taking care of our animals.. .. Isabella our dog.. somehow does not wish to sleep a full night… even though we have tried everything to get her to sleep.. she just wont.. and if you ignore her she will bark ALL NIGHT.. so Joe and I get up at sometimes 1:30am, 4am, 5:15am.. and so on… it's like having a CONSTANT new born.. we didn ’t realize...

Finally WARM!! Florida Rocks!

On our way to view the sunset.... ...AND... they are taking the picture of????...... >>Wendy get OUTTA OF THE PICTURE.... ...VANNA WHITE SAYS, "SUNSET".... ...AHHHH.... ....OH.....

WOW.. there is a freeze warning tonight in Estero, Florida.. WTF is the cold weather following us!!?? Issued by The National Weather Service Tampa Bay/Ruskin, FL ... FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST THURSDAY... ARCTIC AIR WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...AND A FREEZE WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED. LOWS BY THURSDAY MORNING WILL BE BETWEEN 25 AND 30 DEGREES IN THE NORMALLY COLDER LOCATIONS AND IN THE LOWER TO MID 30S NEAR THE COAST. A FREEZE WARNING IS ISSUED FOR 3 OR MORE HOURS OF TEMPERATURES BETWEEN 27 AND 32 OVER A WIDESPREAD AREA. RESIDENTS SHOULD COVER OR MOVE INDOORS ANY COLD SENSITIVE PLANTS... AND BRING PETS INDOORS THIS EVENING. Today it was relatively “nice”... in the 50’s.. actually I think it may have made it to the low 60’s but the winds were whipping at 20-30 mph..so it felt a bit chilly... kinda like being in the refrigerator instead of the freezer... uncomfortible time at the pool... had to keep my sweatshirt on.... BUT I was DETERMINED t...

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Second Day in Paradise.. life is tough... I am going to become a marshmallow....marshmallows are good.....Joe is rested... life is good..

Well the first day in paradise.. and it rained... they said it hasn't rained here for 30 days... yeah go figure...oh well... hoping for some sun tomorrow and that I will be able to walk down steps frontwards instead of turning around... "Wendy, why you walking down the stairs backwards?" Took a nice leisurely hobble.. oops...walk this am... amazing how all that 26.2 miles of fun comes back to you full circle..... did put my sore a-s in the pool..... which by the way was FREAKING COLD AS SH-T... crying and carrying on... did a couple laps.. d-mn near froze to death getting out... I am such a big whoose bag baby... Having the time of my life.. LOVE IT HERE .. dont want to go home.

WE DID IT.. Ocala Marathon .. DONE ... (our third marathon in three months). It was about 32 degrees at the start ... 60 degrees at end... but honestly 32 degrees down here in Florida is SOO different than 32 degrees at home... it just FEELS different.. just not as cold.. however we still had on gloves, hat, and our "throw" away sweatshirts... AND NO I DID NOT end up tossing my sweatshirt... (1) I just couldnt and (2) it was still "cool enough" that I was ok with it on... I do stand corrected.. Ocala does have horse farms, countryside and flowers..what a great course.. very pretty and peaceful.. can't believe they found that beauty out of the "city"... the course was rolling hills..but being from PA.. it really wasn't a problem ...until about mile 19 when the leggies were DOG TIRED... but I ran a nice, clean run... no PR for me but Joe PR'd and did great.. beat me AGAIN... Took some more notes on three hour plus drive to Estero , Florid...