Birthday Week
| September 10, 2012 | Posted by Sweet Tooth Runner under Uncategorized |
It has been a long, crazy week, but one of the best ones of my life. I don’t think I’ve gotten more than 5 hours sleep at any time this week, and I’ve probably eaten twice my bodyweight in cake 
vegan chocolate fudge cake from Whole Foods…so so good!!
My 18th birthday began as most people’s do…with an 18km run It was the perfect way to start the day. I joked last year about running 18 miles on my birthday, but I decided that if I wanted to live to see the end of the day, running 18km might be safer haha!
I spent the day with my beautiful friend Gabby. We’ve been best friends for fourteen years, so spending this day was her was extra special:)
Judging from our text conversation the day before my birthday, she agrees that my mental age hasn’t quite caught up with me yet…
Truth.
The rest of the week was spent celebrating! P.S. please excuse all the creepy flash eyes in all the coming photos…
On Monday I had a birthday dinner out with two of my closest friends. We drove to our favourite Indian restaurant where we have weekly dinner dates and the manager (who we know pretty well) came out and presented us with a bottle of champagne on the house as his “present”!
I had a last concert with my musical friends, all of whom are going off to music college this week! I will miss them so much, but thankfully both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music aren’t far from where I live so they can’t get rid of me that easily
Also I HAVE to share with you this present from my friend Rachel, which my fellow Big Bang Theory fans will appreciate…
I am never taking this off. Maybe I’ll remove the manic expression though…
And in running-related news, I had my first session back with my team on Thursday! My running club train all year round, so we don’t take summer/Christmas off as a lot of teams do. But I’ve been on holiday or had back problems for the best part of two months so I haven’t trained with them since the beginning of July! It was so great to see everyone again and MAN ALIVE was that a painful track session! Having not done any speedwork since I left, running a couple of sets of 600m-500m-400m-300m with short recoveries was a definite shock to my system! I was running the 600s in around 1.55, which is a lot slower than I normally do! The speed will come back quickly though I know 
Boy was I sore the next day!! I’d missed that soreness, and I’d missed my post-session chocolate milk!
I also was FINALLY given my medal from the LYG cross country race back in November! After the race, there was a big mix up with the medals so no-one was given any! We still had a presentation and were given our certificates on the podium, and were promised that our medals would be sent to us. This was my best race and my favourite one from last year, so it was nice to finally get my medal, even if it is ten months late…
I was also handed my sheet of cross country fixtures for the upcoming season…which has no less than 21 races!! It’s going to be a fun year for sure!
A big THANK YOU to all of you for the birthday wishes and love and support in general! I hope you’ve all had a great week! <3
Your such a great person Emma! happy happy (late) birthday!!
Hope you had a great birthday – that chocolate cake from Wholefoods looks amazinggg! Its my birthday a week tomorrow and I also plan to eat large amounts of chocolate cake yum! Unfortunately theres not a wholefoods near me where i can pick up a cake
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Love your Bazinga top too! Ive been wanting one of those for agesss!
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Five going on 19 – why not? That’s what you can call yourself from now on
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Seems like you had an awesome birthday and you deserved it! Too bad I – as a non-Big Bang Theory watcher – don’t get the Bazinga joke. I’ve never watched it before – am I missing out?
Happy Birthday lovely! That cake looks luuuush
HAPPY (late) BIRTHDAY!!!!
Haha wow, so we’re practically the same age!! 
I’ll be eighteen in November… love your blog, btw, and you’ve inspired me to begin posting sweaty post-run pics on my blog, something I thought I’d NEVER EVER do!!! LOL! 
I’m not near as good of a runner as you (my goal is to do 5 miles by my birthday, not 18…lol) but I’m working on it! 
Have a beautiful day! Your blog is one of my absolute favs!
I don’t care that it’s your birthday. BAZINGA I do. Happy late birthday!
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EeeeeEEEE! Happy Birthday Emma! Mental age of 5 or not, you’re absolutely fabulous so don’t you ever forget it! I hope this year is an AMAZING one for you
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That cake looks so good! Jealous! Actually just jealous of your life. Glad you finally got your medal and you are running with your team-I know how much injury is no fun!
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Happy belated birthday!
Happy Late 18th Birthday!!:) Your cake looks sooooooo delicious; I may have to order one for my 19th birthday this November:D And you look beautiful in all your pictures!! Haha, I LOVE your “Bazinga” shirt–I have only recently started watching the Big Bang Theory, but I greatly enjoy it…I loved that “bazinga” episode where Sheldon was in the ball pit–good times:)It was rather embarrassing how much I laughed at that…Ah well, laughing is good for your health, right??
Penblwydd Hapus! I hope you had a fab birthday!
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Happy happy happy happy birthday! I get so excited when I see your posts in my inbox
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Happy belated birthday!!! 18 is such a fun age (I’m jealous), and it’s better to stay mentally young for as long as possible, right?
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HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY!!!
no sleep and lots of cake sounds like you celebrated it the right way!!!
I love the 18k run on your birthday!
next year I will be running the Boston Marathon (26.2) on my 26th birthday!
I hope you’ve been having a great week!
xoxo!
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Hope you had a great birthday!! So fun to run a 18 k on your b-day!!
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