Ultimate Coffee Date!
Woohoo! It’s the first Friday of the month, which means it’s time to join Coco and Deborah for their Ultimate Coffee Date. I have plenty to share, so get out your coffee/tea and let’s get started. In Tuesday’s post (“What’s Next?”) I mentioned that I had my eye on several races but didn’t feel the need to sign up for anything right away. Birchie commented “Ha ha I’m pretty sure that you DO feel the need to sign up for a race this very second! I always used to get a thrill from the moment when I registered for a race.” Well… OKAY. She was right. I signed up for the Treasure Coast Ultra on November 9th. I chose it for several reasons, one of them being that it’s in a state park only an hour’s drive from my house. There’s a 6 hour and a 12 hour option, and I chose the 12 hour. You run multiple loops of a 5 (ish) mile trail for as long as you can/want to, up to 12 hours. I’m not sure yet how I’m going to approach it- run a 50K and call it a day? Go for a new distance PR (anything over 31 miles?) Or, run for the entire 12 hours??? I’ll decide when it gets closer. It all depends on how my training goes, and what else I have after that- I haven’t decided on my other races for the year yet. I’m excited! Speaking of excitement, my son and husband are back from California. They were attending the International Trumpet Guild, an annual conference for trumpet geeks everywhere. There are concerts, competitions, master classes, exhibits, and my son’s trumpet ensemble- the same group that competed (and won second place) at NTC earlier in the year- competed in the “college chamber music” division. THEY WON! Well- they tied for first place. They tied with a brass quintet from ICELAND, how cool is that??? It was an incredible experience, and so fun for my husband to be there to see it (I’m envious!) There was a cash prize, which, split six ways, came to $550 apiece. Great! Now all we have to do is add another zero onto that, and it would have paid for the damage to his car. Sigh… I might have mentioned that my son’s car “broke down” on his way home from college- but the truth is, he rear-ended someone. I didn’t want to incriminate him initially, but what the heck. He crashed the car, no one was hurt, the damage to the other car was minimal (they didn’t even want to call the police and my son just gave them $150) BUT the damage to his car turned out to be substantial. He needed a new radiator and a new part for the AC, in addition to the external damage. So, the lesson learned is- don’t buy a Kia Soul. They just crumble to pieces at the slightest bump! I mean, he was only going like 10 mph. As you can see, our summer has really started with a lot of excitement, but as always you have to take the good with the bad, right? What would you tell me over coffee? Any excitement to start your summer?