Friday Five–More Random Stuff About Me

Posted by hellyontherun in About Me, Uncategorized and tagged with Friday Five, Peanut butter, Personal Stuff, Prom Queen, Randomness, Word Nerd June 27, 2014

I’m linking up again with the girls from the DC Trifecta Cynthia, Mar, and Courtney for the weekly Friday Five–today’s theme, 5 Things About Me . (And if you want a double dose of Helly, I’m also a guest at my friend Jana’s blog, Running Vegetarian!)

As if you already don’t know a lot of randomness about me lol! I’ve shared quite a bit in the past here, here, and here.

Okay, let’s see…

1. Word Nerd Alert! I briefly noted in one of the aforementioned posts that I used to read the dictionary. When I was around 10, my grandpa gave me a really cool, old, hardcover dictionary that I thought was awesome. So I carried it around with me everywhere with a notebook where I’d write down words that interested me. I don’t why, but I thought this was fun and didn’t think it was weird at all.

I got to the letter ‘L’, and fittingly, to the word “lackadaisical” when I stopped.

2. I was a pregnant prom queen. Let me explain lol! I was chosen by my students two years ago for faculty prom queen. I also happened to be 7 months pregnant!

I got to keep the tiara!

3. I knew I was going to marry my husband before we even dated. We were friends in high school but never dated. I always thought he was cute and all around the perfect guy though. I found out near the end of our senior year that we were going to the same college so in his yearbook I wrote that if he wasn’t married in 10 years, that we were going to get married. We started dating our sophomore year and got married in 2005. It only took 7 years after I wrote that note 🙂

4. *Peanut butter disgusts me. I can’t even smell it. Eating it makes me nauseated and I just tell people I’m allergic to it so that they can keep it away from me. (Sorry, Amber! Can we still be friends??)

5. I once walked into burglars stealing stuff from my house. I was in high school coming home from basketball practice. It was late and my mom wasn’t home. I didn’t hear anything walking up but as soon as I unlocked the door and walked inside, two guys went running out the back door! It was so freaky and for a second I had no idea what to do. This was pre everyone having a cell phone so I had to use our house phone to call 911 and the phone line was dead!! I ended up running to a friend’s house to call the police.

How about you? Any random things about yourself you’d like to share? Do you abhor peanut butter like I do or have walked into people stealing things from your house?

Hope everyone has a great weekend!! Are you racing or long running? Let me know!

* This was a repeat but I feel so strongly about it, it was worth another spot on the list.

Bondi Band Giveaway!!

Posted by hellyontherun in Giveaway, Running, Shopping, Uncategorized and tagged with Bondi Band, Giveaway, Headband, Race Gear, Running June 3, 2014

The opportunity came for me to try out a Bondi Band after hearing so many good things about it. It’s takes sweat like no other headband, has cool prints and colors, it’s stretchy and breathable–I’d love it for sure, right?

Well, the band itself is great. It did all those things other people said it did and I love the one I have.

Love ya, Salt!

But deep down, I know that I’m more of a visor girl.

That being said, I’ve tried sooo many types of head bands from Wal-mart types to online boutiques and I really liked the Bondi-Band and do sport it on occasion; it’d be the one I’d recommend if people asked me about a head band that can take sweat. It does. I’ve tested it on runs in my Arizona heat.

If you check out their website, you’ll find a plethora of prints, colors, and funny sayings. You can find one that fits you and your personality no doubt. AND, you can use the coupon code SWEATPINK for 10% off your entire order (excludes Bargain Bin items, Custom items, and Build Your Own) at checkout.

But if you’re feeling lucky, Bondi Band was gracious enough to send me a couple of headbands to giveaway–hope you like tiaras!

All you have to do to enter is click on the raffle copter link below and:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Comment below with your answer to–When was the last time you sweated?

To give yourself a better shot:

1. Like Bondi Band on Facebook
2. Like Helly On The Run on Facebook
3. Follow Bondi Band on Twitter
4. Follow Helly On The Run on Twitter
5. Tweet about the giveaway

The fine print:
-ships in U.S. only
-the first name drawn will get first pick of headbands
-giveaway starts today and ends on Friday, June 6th
-I was sent the two head bands from Bondi Band and did not choose the prints, colors, or designs. All opinions expressed in this post are solely my own.

Throwback Thursday–Costa Rican Honeymoon

Posted by hellyontherun in Not Running Related, Uncategorized and tagged with Adventure, Costa Rica, Honeymoon, Memories, Not Running Related, Throwback Thursday, Travel, Vacation, Zip lining February 6, 2014

Maybe because it’s “cold” here in Arizona (I feel horrible even typing that), but my honeymoon came to mind as I was sipping hot chocolate last night.

We took our honeymoon a few months after our wedding because we had just gotten the keys to our new home three days before we got married; we clearly had a lot of things going on at the time!

We chose Costa Rica as our honeymoon destination because we liked that it had a lot to offer. We could hike, swim, and do touristy stuff in the city. And we could zip line!!!

We spent 4 days there and the first day we went straight to the fun : )

Here I am getting ready…

Don’t let the smile fool ya–I was scared!

This is what awaited me…

um….yeah…..

The first time you do it it’s scary as all hell. But afterwards, it’s….freaking…awesome!!!

Now I’m just showing off ; )

It’s definitely one of the craziest things I’ve ever done. Sky diving and bungee jumping have zero appeal to me and not doing them ever in my life would be totally okay. But zip lining for some reason was something that I thought was doable crazy. Like even though I knew I would be terrified, I was curious.

We chose to do the full ride which was 14 zip lines. They happen pretty quickly. After you’d do one, you’d land on a platform to the next and so forth. You get absolutely stunning views. Really though, you wouldn’t catch views like that from any where else.

Afterward, we relaxed by taking a ride through the rain forest. This ride took us high up to the tops of the trees. Again, breathtaking.

I’m second from the left.

At the top top top

The next day we went on a hike and looked at some of the cool stuff that was around.

You don’t want to mess around with these ..

A butterfly comes out with its full grown wings….I didn’t know that

This was a huge leaf.

Then it was beach time!!

Insert pic of alcoholic beverage

Just hanging out…

Me and my new buddy.

Finally, we did some touristy stuff in the city:

Traffic and buildings everywhere!

Like our San Francisco trip, my husband and I took full advantage of the time we had in Costa Rica; we don’t mess around! Even though we were crazy busy running around doing stuff, we had so much fun and we wouldn’t have wanted it any other way : )

–What’s your favorite vacation spot?

–Have you been to Costa Rica?

–If you could choose anywhere to travel to, where would you go? (we still want to hit up Europe!)

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