Posted in Running

Running in 2017

Posted on by teresamunoz91

At the beginning of 2017, I set a goal to run at least 300 miles. I ended up running 438 miles. I ran the most miles in August 2017. I ran 13 5k races, 6 10k races, 6 half marathons, and a marathon. 

I even travelled to San Francisco for a half marathon and Las Vegas for both a 5k and half marathon. It was fun getting to go on short weekend racecations. 

I think my biggest accomplishment in running In 2017 was running the marathon. It was my first time ever running 26.2 miles. I trained four months for it. It took me 5 hours and 15 minutes to finish. My Next marathon will be the Los Angeles marathon. My goal will be to finish In under 4 hours and 45 minutes.

Having done so many different races, I feel like my favorite is the half marathon, 13.1 miles. It’s challenging but not as hard as the marathon. I also like the 5k races, but I’m not a big fan of the 10k races tbh.

In 2018, I hope to travel more places and run more miles. I also want to set more PRs. My running goal is to run at least 500 miles in 2018. 

Posted in Entertainment/TV

My 10 Favorite TV Couples of All Time

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Over the years, there have been many tv couples that I have loved and they would definitely be considered “relationship goals”, such as Jane and Michael from “Jane the Virgin” or Damon and Elena from “The Vampire Diaries”. This was a tough one but I narrowed it to my top 10 favorite tv couples of all time. Enjoy! Let me know if you agree or disagree with my choices 🙂

1. Jane and Michael (Jane the Virgin)
I know many people are Jane/Rafa fans but Jane and Michael were each other’s true love! As embarassing as it is to admit, I cried when Michael died. Seeing Jane’s rection was heartbreaking. These two were so cute together and they realy knew how to be silly and have fun. Michael was such a good dad to Mateo even though he wasn’t his son. Not many guys can do that.

2. Sabrina and Harvey (Sabrina Teenage Witch)
They were each other’s first loves. Yes they broke up and dated other people, but in the end they were meant to be. I didn’t really like her other boyfriends, like Josh or Aaron. Crazy that after all those years, they ended up together. Marrying Aaron would have been a huge mistake for Sabrina. So happy she ended up with Harvey.

3. Emma Swan and Captain Hook/Killian (Once Upon a Time)
At first I thought Emma would be good for Graham, but then he died. Then I thought she would be good with Neal, but he died too. I was not a fan of Hook, especially not with Emma, but this relationship grew on me. I was so happy when they got married, you could tell they really cared about each other a lot.

4. Cory and Topanga (Boy Meets World)
These two grew up together. They dated each other, then dated other people, but ended up getting married and having kids. They cared for each other and had to go through so many hard times to get to where they were.

5. Melinda and Jim (Ghost Whisperer)
I loved these two together. I really liked Jim because he was so supportive of Melinda even when a lot of people thought she was crazy or didn’t believe in her. It was so sad when he died. But she was able to stay with him because he went into someone else’s body, though it took time for him to remember her, when he did it was so sweet and cute.

6. Marshall and Lily (How I Met Your Mother)
Such a fun couple! The show was based on who Ted married, but I cared more about this relationship. Seeing them become parents and move into a house togther was definitely relationship goals.

7. Elena and Damon (Vampire Diaries)
Elena first dated Damon’s brother Stefan and they were cute, but that was just puppy love. Damon and Elena were true love. Damon changed so much because of his love for Elena.

8. Bonnie and Enzo (Vampire Diaries)
At first this looked like an odd couple. The more i saw them together the more i saw how much they cared about each other. He was always a selfish, arrogant vampire. When he fell in love with Bonnie, he changed. But then he died. Well, he was killed, byt Stefan. It was so sad seeing Bonnie lose her love that way.

9. Mindy and Casey (The Mindy Project)
Many people might say Danny was perfect for her but I disagree. In the beginning, I thought they were such a good couple and was rooting for them. But then he turned out to be kind of a jerk. Casey was such a fun guy for her. They had a good time together and they were so cute.

10. Robin Hood and Regina/Evil Queen (Once Upon a Time)
I didn’t think Regina aka the Evil Queen would ever find love, but along came Robin Hood. He showed her what true love was. On the surface, it seemed these two had nothing in common, but opposites attract. It was so sad when he died.

Posted in Entertainment/TV, music

My Top 20 Taylor Swift Songs

Posted on by teresamunoz91

Taylor Swift released her 6th album Reputation today! I decided to take a look at her first five albums and pick my top 20 songs. Of all her previous albums, Speak Now is definitely my favorite one.

1. Last Kiss
2. Mean
3. Tell me Why
4. Dear John
5. The Story of Us
6. Should’ve Said No
7. Enchanted
8. A Perfectly Good Heart
9. Wildest Dreams
10. Innocent
11. I Knew You Were Trouble
12. Bad Blood
13. Safe and Sound
14. Love Story
15. You Belong With Me
16. Forever and Always
17. Sad Beautiful Tragic
18. Never Grow Up
19. Cold As You
20. Blank Space

Posted in Running

Long Beach Marathon

Posted on by teresamunoz91

I did it!!! Back in January, about a week before my birthday, I decided that I would sign up for a marathon. At the time I had only been running 5-6 months and the idea of running a marathon (26.2 miles) seemed crazy to me.

I decided that since this would be my first marathon, I should start my training in June so that I would have at least four months to train. I followed my plan as much as I could, though I did have to stop training for the first three weeks in July. The reason for this was that I hurt my foot and had trouble walking. Despite the break i took, I feel like my training really helped me prepare for my first marathon.

Before the Long Beach Marathon, I had done three half marathons. The longest run i did in training was a 20 mile run. The day of the marathon, I woke up really early because I was so nervous. In fact, the whole week before the marathon, I kept thinking to myself, what did I get into?? I really did not think in would be able to finish the 26.2 miles. I felt so unprepared.

It took me 5 hours and 17 minutes to finish the marathon. There were a few moments during the race when I wanted to quit. I felt a little dizzy at miles 13-15, but eventually felt a little better. At the end I felt really sore. Was in so much pain all over my body! But I’m already looking forward to doing this again at the LA Marathon in March 2018. I’ve learned a few things that I will do differently next time.

I’m happy to be able to call myself a marathoner!

Posted in Life

A New Job

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I have been working at my current job for about 5 years now. I recently decided to get another part time job to help save up so that I can move out on my own. I applied to almost 10 different places before finally hearing back from one. The place that called me back was the gym that I have been a member of since January 2016. I really like going there and it was surprising they called me back.

It has been one week already at my new job and I really like it. There was so much training I had to do before I could actually start working. I have learned a lot on my first week of working there. I was so nervous on my first day because I thought it would be really hard, but I think I’m getting the hang of it.

It will definitely be a challenge for me to have two jobs. I know a lot of people do this or some people even have three jobs. It’s my first time, although in the past I was a full time student while working and that can be hard too. My goal is to work two jobs for only a few months. I am hoping to only have one job by the beginning of 2018.