Black Friday Runfessions
Sigh. The pies have been eaten… leftovers put away…. and my son goes back to school tomorrow. I’m feeling a little melancholy. But, on the other hand, the Christmas tree is up and we can now throw ourselves fully into the next holiday. Onward! I have a full Thanksgiving recap coming tomorrow (hint: it did not involve a trip to the grocery store OR a trip to urgent care!) but today is the last Friday of the month, which means I’m linking up with Marcia for Runfessions. Of course I’m also joining San and our fearless crew for NaBloPoMo… one more week, you guys! Anyway, I really just have one big, fat runfession this week… I didn’t run a Turkey Trot yesterday! I planned to… I really thought we were going to… and then on Monday (we hadn’t signed up yet) my husband asked “Do you really want to?” Um. Well, no. I really didn’t! I didn’t want to get up super early and go run a race, where, no matter how hard I try to tell myself it’s just for fun, I’ll be comparing my time to my faster days. Instead, my husband and I slept until 7 am, got up leisurely and went for a run together- something we rarely get to do. It was fun! I just listened to the recent Rich Roll podcast episode with Alexi Pappas. If you haven’t read her book, Bravey, I can’t recommend it highly enough. And I love listening to her talk- so many nuggets of wisdom in the episode. One of the things she said that stood out to me was “Lead the pack of your own running journey.” Alexi transitioned from Olympic runner, to film director, to author, to ultra runner; she had to figure out, and she’s still figuring out, what kind of runner she wants to be. And she encourages us all to do the same with our own lives. I’m not saying I’ll never run another road race- I’m sure I will. But right now it just doesn’t appeal to me. I want to be out on the trails, having adventures! I don’t want to run in a crowd of people and be worried about how fast (or slow) I’m going. If you ran in a Turkey Trot yesterday, I hope you had a great time! If not.. I hope you had a great morning and a happy Thanksgiving. Do you get sad when Thanksgiving is over? If you celebrate Christmas, is your tree up yet? – Ours is up but not decorated- we’ll decorate it today when I get home from work. Did you run a Turkey Trot this year?