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hello everyone!

My weekend in SF- the marathon and new friends :)

so i am finally walking like a normal person again. thank goodness!

i have been so moved by the Team in Training experience– the training, the people, the cause, the marathon– that i have decided to do it again! this time i will be a mentor on the West Los Angeles Team for the LA Marathon! the marathon is feb. 16th and the season actually begins this saturday with a big kickoff event and the first practice is sunday. if you or your friends are in the west los angeles area and are interested in participating on my team, let me know and i can get more information to you. you have about three weeks left if you want to join! it is a challenge both physically and mentally, and…well… monetarily as well… but it is totally worth it :)

ok, i need to sleep off my cold. mwah!

kina
p.s. the song in the background of the video is a song i wrote with alissa moreno called “give me back”

oovret: Week 26(.2) Marathon Week… again.

How many hours of sleep did you get the night before the marathon?
about 3.5 hours
Approximately how many liters of fluid did you consume right before, during, and immediately after the marathon?
before- about 1 liter
during- maybe a little less than a liter
immediately after- 16 oz, and then some
Will you be running with Team in Training again?
yes :)
Would you consider playing a song marathon?
a song marathon, eh? 26.2 songs in a row? if that’s what it is, count me in.
How long did it take for you to walk normally again?
about 5 days
Bonus question from asdf
Running became your weekly routine in the past few months.
Did you run this sunday?
it was going to be my first day back, but then i was sick, and i thought, bed sounds nice.
If not, did you miss it?
i did miss it :(

@dro
SHOOT! i forgot Suitkace’s shoutout…. next week!?
@carlos pineda
you will be so missed!! best of luck on training for Iron Man!
@keith soohoo
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE BATTERY! you have saved my life. my and my computer have been freed from the wall :)
@lizzyvaz
hola lizzy :)
@ thatbabae
welcome to the blog!!

I tried to fix it, but to no avail. The wall keeps attacking the server and the host keeps shutting me down, so I had to take down the wall until I can find a different solution. I suppose everyone’ll have to rely on the comment sections and the forums for now. :\

-Misa

and i have the walk to prove it!

in short:
the marathon was an amazing experience, but i’m making next week’s blog about that.
sorry for this week’s shout outs, i was short on time, and shorter on energy.
zzzzz…….

oovret: Week 25

Are you usually able to carry on a conversation while running?
generally, unless it’s a hill or speed workout. then the athletically-induced asthma kicks in and i turn wheezy :(
Did you have a special pre-marathon diet?
lots of food!
How much further do you think you could have run?
about negative one mile.
Would you consider participating in a triathlon?
consider, yes, but something about the swim cap and getting on a bike when wet stresses me out.
What kind of running shoes did you wear?
Brooks

youtube has been under maintenance all night! to be posted tomorrow…

heyo!

i’m in san francisco for the nike women’s marathon on sunday and i thought– why not meet some peeps?!

so i’ll be hanging out today–saturday, october 18th– at a starbucks by union square from 1-2:30PM and i would LOVE to meet you and hang for a bit!

here’s the address:
390 stockton st., san francisco, ca

perhaps i shall see you then.

in other news…

here’s me opening all my awesome po box goodies! well not all of them… there’s actually 12 more minutes of po box footage that i’ll save for another time so i don’t bore you to death. :)

Hi all, Misa here. I have to run to LA for the evening, but I just wanted to let you know that I received word from the hosting company that the wall was freaking out and so they shut it down. I’ll investigate further tonight, but I just wanted to give you the heads up as to why the wall is full of strange error messages.

first– before your hopes get up– emi and misa are not in this video. misa had a lot of plans while she’s in town so we didn’t have time to do it for today’s post, however, we will definitely shoot a song together before misa goes!

The Goldfish Song- Kina Grannis Original

**my shoutouts were cutoff :( sadness! i’ll post them to the next video!**

you might remember this song from some video way back when– i played the first verse or so for you at the end of the video, but now it’s done! hooray!

my marathon is this sunday. AH! i’m so excited but pretty nervous too. knowing me i won’t be able to fall asleep on saturday night… and knowing bodies, that’s probably not going to do much good for the run… but it’s ok! that’s what adrenaline is for, right? if me and my marathon cross your mind this sunday, send me some positive vibes :)

oovret: Week 24

On which talk show would you most like to perform?
hmmm… any talk show would be cool, really. conan o’brien would be cool, but he’d probably jokingly make fun of me and i’d probably cry. haha. the ellen degeneres show would be cool, too. or… any show.
What do you think about while running? everything and nothing. sometimes (when i’m lucky) i’ll totally zone out, which is nice, most of the time i think about things i need to do later that day, emails i’ve received from people, people from my past, people from my present, things i want to do, how i am going to survive this crazy industry… ooh! a pretty tree!… AH! i almost tripped on that root!…. i want to be that person’s friend… etc…
If you could have a real-life pokemon which would you choose?
the only one whose name i know is pokemon. i guess that leaves me no choice…
What is your favorite beverage?
iced soy chai (oregon brand chai, to be specific)
Have you ever used a firearm?
nope.

@BeeKool
welcome! and yeah, dexter rocks :) i FINALLY started this season… crazy!
@katiebean
nice cousin story! reminds me of my childhood.
@windscale
a fellow runner! hello! hopefully you can make a show when you’re training in san jose…. otherwise… i better get out to the UK already.
@ken
thanks for the reminder. perhaps i should book a next show…
@wwar1ace
ok… i think i see the word “happy” on a palm frond (an aside– i don’t know if i’ve ever looked at the word “frond” before… it’s weird) and i think i see “kina” in the grass. from that i can deduce that perhaps i should be looking for the word “birthday” or “bday”… but no luck yet…
@mama g
the song i sang for the man at the santa monica pier in exchange for a rose was a new one called “word in front of me”
@kim h
i heart you too! thank you so so much. good luck with guitar! you can do it :)
@meeks
yayyyy im so glad you liked the cover :) i quite enjoy checking for your weekly facebook picture update!
@elina
i read your comment too late, i’ll give Princess Masilungan a shout out next week! promise.
@nick from argentina
haha… thanks for making sense of my sleeping problem… you’re a smart one!

disturbia- rihanna cover

ha! and you thought i was growing out of my weirdness….

first you should know that i just rolled over my toe while sitting in my chair. don’t worry though, i only silent-screamed. no broken bones :)

so today was the most intense day of blogging in the history of kina blogging. for some reason i woke up at 7:30, which was completely not the plan at all, but i felt great so i decided to go with it. i made myself some chai tea and sat out on the porch for a few minutes to take in that lovely morning feeling.

then i came inside to embark on what i thought would be an ordinary blog day.

11 hours later, i exported my video from imovie.

i must admit that it was extremely fun to create. i hope that you all can find some enjoyment in watching it, too. it was really a challenge to try to make this song my own. and while i know it doesn’t sound like “kina” right off the bat, it is, just a smaller part of me. for those anti-autotune-ists out there, i generally agree. it’s frustrating when auto-tune is used to make a non-singer sound like beyonce, but when it’s used for effect, like with imogen heap, i think it can be a beautiful thing.

i recorded the track on garageband first. then i started filming who knows what and eventually i ended up with enough footage to splice up. yay!

oof my body feels bad. my coaches have been telling us that when you start tapering (running less miles) after the 21 miler to recover for the marathon your body just goes whack. that it gets so used to all the mileage that when it doesn’t have it it just starts to freak out. cold symptoms, weird body aches, inability to sleep, random things. interesting, eh? you’d think my body would be jumping for joy.

ok, time to lie down. sorry it took so long!

heart,
kina

oovret: Week 23

Do you prefer hot or cold sandwiches?
both!
hot– my mom’s beef dip sandwich, which is completely unlike any beef dip you’ve ever had, and a million times more delicious.
OR
chicken pesto panini from Il Tramezzino in beverly hills…. ahhhh.
cold– turkey, avocado, sprouts, tomato, a little mayo and mustard… mmmm
What is your high score in bowling?
oh the shame. i don’t actually know, but i guarantee it’s lower than you’ve ever done.
Would you like to travel in outer space?
yes i think it’d be amazing. i don’t think i’d go though if it meant never seeing the people i love again…. you know, like some crazy space trek that would last hundreds of years in earth-time, but only 10 for me, and when i came back everyone would be gone. that’d be sad.
Do you subscribe to any periodicals?
i should.
What was the last movie you saw in theaters?
Vicky Cristina Barcelona– it was very very very good.

@hannah!
welcome to the blog! i’m so glad that you’re enjoying my music :) as far as itunes vs. straight from my website, the difference isn’t HUGELY significant, BUT, if you buy it from my website, i have an excuse to write you a note, which is fun for me. up to you!
@TanyaMcavany
ahh that’s great that you might join TNT! it’s been such an awesome experience. i’m actually thinking of staying on for next season as a mentor :) and patty griffin=amazing. good idea.