Runfessions: January

I can hardly believe it's the end of January, but yep, there it is! And just in time for Runfessions. I've been saving them up and I have a few...nothing too earthshattering, which in my book is a good thing!

Pull up a chair and have an anti-inflammatory smoothie.

Let the 'fessing begin...

This one's got cocoa, blueberries, banana, avocado, cinnamon, and oatmeal!

It hardly feels like January in my neck of the woods. Did you see my pictures from last weekend's sunny Chicago lakefront run with Marcia and Kim? While I'm enjoying our winter--this mild weather makes the running easy--I can't help but wonder: where is the snow? I runfess that I love a good snow run. I know, be careful what you wish for--the last time challenged the universe I got norovirus--but still, I wouldn't mind a little more snow. We've really only had one significant snow and that was back in December. The temperatures are falling back to what is normal for this time of year, so let's see what happens.

Where is he when we need him?

What has been interesting is all the stuff I've seen along the side of the road while I've been running! It might be time for another Running Treasure Hunt! Without the snow cover, it's been like a trash treasure hunt. Mostly I've seen a lot of liquor bottles, which is simultaneously amusing and frightening. Clearly, folks are drinking and flinging those bottles out the window. I also spotted this bottle of oxycodone. Empty, but where did the 100 pills go? And where did the bottle come from? I also found a full can of Revolution Fist City beer, still attached to the other 4 caps. Expensive stuff, I runfess that I picked the can up and brought it home for my husband to drink. He said it was ok, and he probably wouldn't buy it.

I'm still playing with yoga on the run, and if you read my weekly recap last week, you saw that I finally landed handstand, unassisted. I runfess that I tried probably 10 times before I was able to get my legs straight and together. It was really fun trying, though, and someone asked me to share the outtakes. I think these are better than the actual pose...

You may have seen that lululemon/strava run challenge, where you could run 40km or 80km in 2 weeks. My coach Becky told me about it and I decided to go for it. Never a person to do anything halfway, I went for the 80km challenge (50 miles) and I did it! Black ice and all. I went to Lululemon to pick up my prize. I figured I would get a headband or something. I runfess that I was stunned when I found out that I would receive a Swifty tech shirt for the 40km distance and a pair of Speed Shorts for completing the 80km distance. The only color option was black but I'm not complaining. I still can't believe it. Becky says she's taking up running.

I runfess that I have been limiting my time on Facebook. My feed is full of political posts and I have had enough. I'm not shy about my feelings for Donald Trump but he is in office and there's not a whole lot we can do about it. I have incredible anxiety about his presidency and seeing all the negativity in my feed is just making me feel worse. So if I'm not liking your running posts or personal posts, it's because either I'm not seeing them or I'm just not on FB enough to find them. I'm an administrator for a fitness blogging page so I have to check in, and I do link up posts to my TTLWH page, but for now, I'm taking a little break from everything else. Well, almost everything else...

By the way, if you blog and would like to join our Facebook Fitness Blogging Group, send me a message. The group hosts social media threads where you can post your links and increase your engagement. We'd love to increase our membership! It's been a lot of fun and I've met some amazing bloggers through the group. And it's a politics-free zone!

How is your winter? Do you have snow? Find anything interesting on the run? Did you do the lululemon/strava challenge? 

I'm linking up with Marcia for Runfessions as well as Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness for the Friday Five 2.0.