Runfessions for July

It's that time again...time to runfess! This monthly clearing of the conscience feels so good! Marcia makes it all happen and there's no penance. So come on in and share your deepest, darkest runfessions!

I refer to my early morning pool running sessions as a geriatric happy hour. Usually, I am the youngest person there. Mostly there are the pool noodle ladies and elderly men in speedos. Which shouldn't even be a thing, IMHO. But wait...hello!
I runfess that for the last couple of weeks there has been a perfect male specimen in the lap pool. He's anything but geriatric, but not jailbait, and did I mention perfect? Even the suit he wears, which is kind of a speedo but more like snug booty shorts, is perfect. Not at all revealing but snug in all the right places. It's been a pleasant way to start the day. With every lap around the dive well, I check out the lap pool to see if he's in view. Waiting for him to climb out and shake the water off...

Have you played Pokemon Go? You'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard of it. I runfess that yes, I've caught a few Pokemon over the last couple of weeks. My favorite training spot, the retention pond, has 4 Pokestops! I guess it's a good thing I'm not training there because there are a ton of people walking the path and playing the game. A hot run this week had me looking for Pokemon on the last mile. Why not? There was not any hope of getting a decent pace out of it.

Don't judge me. I runfess I don't even know what I'm doing. All I'm doing is catching the little guys. I'm not in this for the competition. It's a distraction from life. And it's kind of fun. By the way, there are a bunch of articles on running and playing Pokemon. Lifehacker posted an interval training workout, but Runner's World and Competitor have also gotten in the game.

Captured this guy yesterday! Yes, I was running...

Do you still have a landline?  We do and it's a mixed blessing. I runfess that we only answer it if we know the number on the caller ID. Because we get a ton of robocalls. I finally checked the answering machine after 2 weeks and out of 8 messages, only one was legit, a reminder for a doctor appointment. The rest? "Credit card alert". I get those at least once daily. All different numbers too. Oh and that IRS fraud call we get regularly. Dude says I'm going to be arrested for tax fraud. The callers are quite aggressive.

This past weekend, I took a spontaneous trip to my parents' place in northern Wisconsin with my youngest son and his girlfriend. It was his birthday! His broken leg is healing and he wanted to do ALL THE THINGS that we usually do on our trips up north. I did my best to keep up with them. We kayaked and SUP'd. We did yoga poses on the SUPs. We swam. Played ping pong. I managed to run. We dined. And I wined. But I runfess that our last night there I begged off mini golf. I didn't think I could do 18 holes. Bonus runfession: I took some satisfaction in that they both slept the entire 5 hour ride home. Although I did go to bed at 8 that night.

This was tougher than headstand!

As you know, I've set some strength goals for myself this year. One of those goals is to do a pull-up. I've never, ever refused to do something Becky has put in front of me but I runfess that I finally told her that the pull-up prep work is too hard. All while fighting tears of frustration. The awesome coach that she is, she ignored my tears and instead gave me the pep talk of all pep talks. Like the kind of pep talk that a sergeant gives his soldiers going into battle. Seriously. Becky told me how surprised she was about this because I have never quit on anything with her. She reminded me that I've done lots of hard things. Like, run a few marathons. She also shared a personal anecdote about a strength challenge of her own. By doing this, she gave me the courage to do try again.

Are you playing Pokemon Go? Ever cry because a workout was too hard? Got anything to runfess? I know you do...

Let's continue the Friday Fun! Next Friday, August 5, I'm hosting a link up I've creatively titled Running Treasure Hunt!  In the spirit of the Friday Five, I challenge you to find and post pictures of 5 fun/odd/weird things you've seen on the run! You don't have to be a blogger to participate. You can link your FB, IG, or Twitter post as well as a blog post. All I ask is that you link back to my post. Bloggers can link up with the DC Trifecta's Friday Five as well. If this goes over well, I may make it a seasonal thing--think summer, fall, winter, and spring finds. 

Here's the link up badge!

Besides linking up with Marcia at Marcia's Healthy Slice for the official Runfessions linkup, I'm also linking up with the DC Trifecta aka Courtney, Mar, and Cynthia for the Friday Five. I've got 5 Runfessions tucked into this post, right?