Final fling before the ring!
Several months ago I handed over all planning power of both my bridal shower and my bachelorette party to MOH Michele and bridesmaid Jen respectively. I had an amazing bridal shower thrown for me back at Christmas time and then hadn’t really heard much about the bachelorette party.
I spent all day Saturday in a strategic planning session for work and then my friend Robyn, who was visiting me from Calgary this weekend, picked me up and we went out for Mojito’s! I had been looking forward to having dinner with Robyn and a few of my girlfriends from around here on Saturday night but all of them “canceled” at the last minute. Heh.
Anyways, I came home from having drinks with Robyn to see Jen’s car in the driveway and then walked up the stairs into our house to 9 girlfriends in running gear, marathon numbers and wigs on yelling “SURPRISE!”
I was told to go upstairs and put on running clothes and was then provided with a mandatory wig and t-shirt to wear.
The running clothes/marathon/wig-theme was seriously SO AWESOME and FUN!
There was 11 of us total and you never would have guessed that most of these girls didn’t even know each other very well, most of them are all friends of mine from different aspects of my life. But everyone got along wonderfully!
After I got over my initial shock (and had a few shots) we headed downtown for the best part of the whole night: A SCAVENGER HUNT! Let me just say that scavenger hunts are the best thing ever. So fun! Especially as a party game at a party where not everyone knows one another very well! We were split into two teams…
…and sent off with a list of things to get – mostly things we had to take photos of.
Like girls planking.
Yoga poses.
A photo on the back of a Harley.
And some things that were a little too inappropriate for the blog 
It was a bachelorette party after all! Our team lost unfortunately. Probably because we got distracted by cute puppies during the hunt!
Then we all met up at a pub for more drinks, some food and lots of laughs before heading out dancing at the bar, something I hadn’t done in over two years!
It was SUCH A FUN NIGHT! Jen did an amazing job planning a party that was totally ME. I adored the marathon/running theme and let me say wearing running clothes to the bar is the best idea ever! So comfortable for a night of running around town and dancing. My friends are the best and totally spoiled me. Every time I turned around there was a shot or a drink in front of me. Sunday was definitely a hugeeee write-off.
Thank you again to all my fabulous friends who came out on Saturday!
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Questions of the day: What did you do for your bachelorette party? Have you ever had a surprise party thrown for you? I’ve never had one thrown for me before, this was so great!
Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 18 & Recovery so far
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 1
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 2
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 3
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 4
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 5
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 6
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 7
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 8
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 9
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 10
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 11
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 12
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 13
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 14
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 15
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 16
- Vancouver Marathon Training: Week 17
10.0 km / 6:33 pace
4.0 km / 6:22 pace
42.2 km / 6:33 pace
Training Tally:
Miles/Km ran last week: 35 miles / 56.3 km
Training TOTAL: 496.2 miles / 798.5 km
Yoga: 75 minutes
How is recovery going?
Really, really well. I can’t believe how quickly my legs are recovering. I was super sore and going down stairs side ways on Monday. Still pretty sore yesterday and today I have almost no soreness left in my legs. Just a little bit when going up and down stairs.
I did NOTHING Monday, went for a leisurely stroll with a friend and Chloe Tuesday and went for hike with Chloe last night that involved a few steep hill climbs where my legs quickly reminded me that they ran a marathon just a few days before. I might try a little run on Sunday since I have a friend visiting from out of town and really want to take her on this one trail run (that is relatively flat). Next week I’m planning on walking/hiking with the dog, going to yoga and getting back into strength training and biking. I’m trying crossfit for the first time ever with Bronwyn on Tuesday and if that goes well and I enjoy it I am hoping to start doing that a couple times a week. I’m also joining the local triathlon club for a group ride next Wednesday. I want to get back into biking again, especially with bike to work week coming up again at the end of this month. The week after that I will start regularly running again (probably only 2-3 times a week for a few weeks) and then if all goes well I will be entering another training cycle in June.
For now, I’m just really enjoying taking it easy for a week. Sleeping in in the morning, enjoying a glass of wine in the evening and reading or watching TV with Eric. I know I’ll be back into full on training mode soon so I’m taking advantage of the recovery time while I can!
Question of the day: How much time do you take off to recover from racing?
2 months to go!
Catching up on wedding planning? Here are my previous posts on this topic:
- The Proposal
- Announcing our venue and date
- Asking my bridesmaids
- On hiring a wedding planner
- Wedding Inspiration
- On finding “the one”
- Our Invitations
- 8 months to go!
- 7 months to go!
- 6 months to go!
- 5 months to go!
- 4 months to go!
- 3 months to go!
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As I’m sure you can imagine the last month has been pretty consumed with the marathon so not much has happened on the wedding planning front since my last update. However, I think the wedding will be the PERFECT thing to distract me as I go through my post-marathon blues, am I right?
A recent favourite wedding picture taken at our resort. {Source}
Instead of my usual to-do list format, here are some random blurbs on wedding planning in general, and how I’m feeling with only two months to go until the big day.
- Despite making a decision about what we’re going to do for tuxes, we’re yet to actually order them. The guy at the tux store should not have told us we only needed to do it a month ahead of time because now we probably will. Oh well! At least we know exactly what we want.
- The final guest list numbers are in more or less (give or take 5 or 10 people more or less). I am really happy with the number of people we’re going to have (less than 100) and think it will make for a really nice, intimate – but still fun! – affair. Of course, I’m really sad that certain people couldn’t make it and I’ve definitely had a few disappointing no RSVP’s, but overall I am happy with how it’s unfolding.
- I created a Facebook group for my bridal party and it seems to be working as a great way to keep all the important information in one area without sending a million emails!
- Day of itinerary is something lurking at the back of my mind. I know I need to start planning this soon as well as a day before itinerary and logistics of getting everyone from Vancouver to the resort and the day on Saturday when we’ll be in Vancouver and will be a bit of a “mini” bachelorette party for me (no, I will not be getting crazy drunk or going too wild two nights before my wedding!)
- I’m really, really, REALLY looking forward to our honeymoon. This year has been ca-ra-zy so far and our honeymoon is the “light at the end of the tunnel” in terms of a chance to really kickback and relax after a crazy-busy 7 months!
- I’ve been meaning to write a blog post talking about changing my name (I am changing it!) but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I will in the next month!
- Eric and I have a dancing lesson on Monday! I booked this months ago and completely forgot about it until last week! It should be interesting to say the least. Hope my quads are back to 100% by then.
- Speaking of dancing, we need to finish filling out our music profile for the DJ.
- Speaking of that, we also need to finish writing and planning our ceremony. And write a joint ‘Thank You’ type speech for the reception. Oy.
- My dress doesn’t need to be hemmed! It is the PERFECT length with my kitten-heel shoes. So happy about that!
- That’s about it. My mind has been totally focused and obsessed with the marathon the last little while so wedding mode is back on. There is quite a bit to be done in the next two months.
Anything else I should be thinking about 2 months out? I’m sure I’m missing something…