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[arielaboody]

So I guess I'm going to Boston. Extremely pleased with my effort and performance in today's #Mountains2Beach #marathon. PR'd with an official time of 3:02:40 and earned a qualifying time for the #BostonMarathon aka #BQ. Guess I gotta keep training then. Boston, this LA kid is coming for you! 📷credits: @gbarrio & @not_so_speedra

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More fun with the old #Nikon #DSLR and #longexposure #nightphotography trying to capture the #LAmarathon #LightsonLA installation. #LAM #lights #LosAngeles #LA #DTLA Good luck to all my friends #running on Sunday! #marathon (at Los Feliz/ Hollywood Hills)

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Dusted off the old #Nikon #DSLR for some #nightphotography to capture tonight's amazing #moon. Was a bit late getting out of the house, so ended up just shooting #VenturaBlvd instead. #TheValley #SFV #LosAngeles #LA #photography #casadecadillac (at City Of Sherman Oaks)

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Not a bad way to start off a #birthday. Nice little 3 hour #trailrun in my backyard with my #fortiuscoaching friends. Thanks for all #trophies #strava. I went for 20 miles, since I feel better today at age 33 than I did at age 20. Good #run today! Fitness is finally starting to feel like it's coming back. #marathontraining #running #trailrunning #RELruns #training #stravamoments #instarunners #runnersofig #RELrunsPartDeux (at Topanga State Park)

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Easily one of the best breakfasts I've had, and if you know me, you know my #breakfast game is strong. The #RicottaHotcakes and #MillionairesBacon were absolutely incredible! Perfect meal to end a short, but fun #SanFrancisco trip with @sustainablefitness #SFeats #foodisgood #bacon #pancakes #hotcakes #food #eat #castro #RELeats (at Kitchen Story)

[arielaboody]

Definitely not easy waking up that early, but totally worth it.

Waking up at 4:30 in the morning a few times a week to run and see the sun rise is not for everyone!

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Today's return to #running after more than a month off included great views of the #sunrise (something I haven't seen in a while), a fair amount of walking, and of course #photoshoots with the #fortiuscoaching #newlyweds @gbarrio & @hockeysocks77. Is this the return of #RELruns ? Who knows. But it was good to get out there again for a #trailrun and break a sweat. (at Sullivan Canyon Trail)

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#tbt 2006 after I came home from a few months of #volunteering in South America as a #photographer for an NGO and some trekking in the Andes. Grooming? What's that? #hairyman #mountainman #beard #iloveperu #longhairdontcare #facialhair

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Thailand Recommendations: Dec. 2005 - Jan. 2006 Family Trip

Planning a 2 week vacation to Thailand?  Here’s what I suggest (all recommendations are a result from first-hand accounts).  You’ll start off in Bangkok since that’s where you’ll be flying into.  Be prepared for the smog and pollution to hit you right as you walk out of the airport.  From what I remember (back in 2005) it was pretty intense.  Maybe they’ve managed to clean up their act since then.  I’d say spending 3-4 days in Bangkok is enough.  That includes your arrival date.  You’ll probably use that day to recover from the long flight, get to your hotel, eat some food, and rest up.  I’d recommend going to the Grand Palace and walking around there a bit.  It’s definitely worth it.  You’ll see a lot of gold and intricately decorated palaces and temples, monks walking around and praying, and it’s a good introduction for what to expect from Buddhism in Thailand over the course of your trip.  There will probably be a lot of tourists there too.  But that’s to be expected almost anywhere you’ll go in Thailand during the holidays.

Next (either later that day, or possibly the next day) I’d hit up the floating market.  Most anywhere you go in Thailand via boat you’ll have vendors coming up in their own little boats to try to sell you something (fruit, hats, beer, etc.)  They’re like mobile floating convenience stores.  But the floating market is like a farmers market on the water.  All these vendors in their boats navigating the narrow canals selling to locals, tourists, and each other.  It’s a pretty cool site to see.  You’ll notice that nothing in Thailand in terms of the transportation seems to make sense, but it all seems to work.  How people manage to cross the street, how mopeds don’t all crash into everything, and how these long narrow canoe-style boats don’t crash into each other and sink.  But they’ve got it down, and it all seems to work like clockwork.

Try and find a way to see a real muy thai or thai kickboxing fight.  I didn’t get a chance to see a real one myself, rather we went to one that was choreographed mainly as a demonstration for tourists.  Still, it was pretty cool.  I’m sure a real one would kick ass.

The ruins of Ayutthaya were pretty impressive.  If you’re into walking through centuries-old ruins, then this is a must.  There’s also this enormous reclining Buddha that’s definitely worth seeing.  You’re gonna see a lot of Buddha statues everywhere, and some of them are absolutely massive.

That’s all I can really remember about Bangkok off the top of my head and from looking back at my pictures.  I don’t recall the names of all the places we went to.  But you’ll see a busy city, a lot of culture and history, a very spiritually rich people, and incredible hospitality and politeness from everyone.  And all the food is spicy even if you tell them not to make it spicy.  Also, get ready for some crazy street food.  Roasted insects and cockroaches that people eat by the handfuls like we would eat trail mix.

Next we flew up to the northern most point of the country, Chiang Rai.  This is where you’ll find most of the different cultural groups and tribes.  The women with the elongated necks and gold rings around their necks, tribes people wearing more traditional dress and Hmong villages.  It’s more rural.  This is also where most people do the elephant rides through the jungle and feed monkeys by hand as they appear out of the trees and sometimes steal your belongings.  They’re pretty aggressive and very, to borrow a word from our good buddy Frank the Tank, forward.  I think we also did some river rafting up there too.  But nothing like the rapids of Costa Rica.  I’d say a couple days there is enough.

From there we went south to Chiang Mai.  This is where we spent New Years Eve.  It’s a big city that had fireworks, and people releasing these floating candle-like objects into the air that slowly float up and light up the sky.  It’s a pretty amazing site.  I’d imagine that you’d find this anywhere in Thailand.  But it you want a city-scene for NYE with bars and maybe a club to go to, versus partying in a beach city, then I’d say Chiang Mai is the place to go.  It’s still got that modern city feel, but way smaller and less chaotic than Bangkok.  I think Chiang Mai might have been my favorite city in Thailand (of the four we went to).  3-4 days should be enough.

From Chiang Mai in the northern part of the country, we flew all the way down to the southern tip in Phuket.  If you’re looking for that chill, beachy resort town (kinda like Costa Rica or any island really), this is it.  You can take speedboats to the other islands for some amazing views of turquoise blue water with these massive vertical rock column structures jutting out of the water, like from the James Bond movie, “The Man With The Golden Gun.”  The island is actually called James Bond Island.  Side note: There are so many things throughout Thailand that reference the various James Bond movies that were filmed there.  There are floating villages, which are basically entire villages sitting on stilts above the water.  But who knows, maybe with global warming and rising water levels, they might not be there anymore.  Otherwise Phuket is pretty much a resort town.  Fancy hotels, people chillin on the beach under umbrellas, a lot of older white European men with tiny Thai women.  You know, the usual.

But that’s about it for what I saw.  There are so many other places to go to from what I’ve seen from other friends’ trips.  But I have no first-hand knowledge of those places.  You’ll just have to do some more research on that.

Oh, one last thing I just remembered regarding massages (mostly from what I saw in Bangkok).  I remember getting an hour-long massage for like $7.   You’ll know the difference between a legitimate massage parlor and one that offers happy endings by what the women who stand outside look like.  One has women dressed basically in scrubs, while the other has women who look dressed to go out to club in clear heels and short skirts.

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I just launched a new Instagram account for my #business @131media. I'd really appreciate it if you all went over and FOLLOWED! It's gonna be a lot of #behindthescenes photos from events I'm shooting, pics of all the cool #gear I get to play with, advice on #smallbusinessmarketing and #SEO using video, and much more! Thank you and have a great weekend! #131media #videoproduction #eventvideography #bts #followfriday #ff

[arielaboody]

Just missed qualifying for the #bostonmarathon by 3 minutes! There's always next time. #srmarathon #srm2014 #santarosamarathon #relruns #marathontraining #running #runner #instarunners #runnersofig #finishersmedal

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I feel ready. I did all the necessary training. I'm well rested, and nothing hurts. Seven months ago I picked this race, The Santa Rosa Marathon, and began training with one goal in mind: to qualify for the Boston Marathon. It all comes down to tomorrow. I trust my training, I trust my coaches, and most importantly, I'm confident in myself. Thank you everyone for all your support and encouragement along the way. Looking forward to a great day of racing tomorrow. #RELruns #fortiuscoaching #marathontraining #srm948 #srm2014 #srmarathon #marathon #santarosamarathon #run #runner #running #runnersofig #instarunners #fitamorphosis #bostonmarathon #bq

[arielaboody]

Couldn't think of a better #throwbackthursday picture than this, today being the last day of #summercamp over at #NJYCamps. This #tbt goes all the way back to 2006, #colorwar at #CedarLakeCamp, staff #relays. Thankfully my #running form has improved significantly since then. But what about dat #hair tho. #RELruns #camp #bestsummersever

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With less than 2 weeks remaining until #SantaRosaMararhon, today's #run #workout (20 minute LT test) reaffirmed what we've known for some time now: We're ready! Great job @hockeysocks77 and @triathleteno2 on a solid 7 months of #marathontraining. #fortiuscoaching #running #bostonmarathon #bq #runnersofig #instarunners #RELruns #brooksrunning #sauconyrunning #rockinrunyon (at Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park)

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Happy 7th Gotcha Day Roxy & Blaze! These are all from when we adopted these two back in August 2007. They've definitely saved me and helped keep me happy and sane these past seven years. I love them so much! #dogs #dogsofinstagram #rescuedogs #petadoption #gotchaday #chowmix #goldenretrievermix #adoptdontshop #rescuedogsofig

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#throwackthursday to Day 1 of #marathontraining 6 months ago. Now I'm just one month away from my A-race at #SantaRosaMarathon where I hope to earn a #BQ. I've put in a lot of hours of #training and #running with #fortiuscoaching, even incorporated #strengthtraining with #fitamorphosis. Now I just gotta go out there and execute (and run fast). #tired #RELruns #bostonmarathon #tbt