After so much hard work and preparation for the New Jersey Marathon, it’s such a strange feeling to be out of the training cycle and back to having regular weekends! Trust me though, I’m not complaining!
Since it’s the first Saturday in May, it’s time to join Coco and Deborah for the Ultimate Coffee Date! While this is a running blog, sometimes it’s refreshing to just talk about everyday life! Let’s catch up – and be sure to check out Coco and Deborah’s sites to see what everyone’s talking about!
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Ultimate Coffee Date – May 2018
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…that Steff, Kim, and I decided to retire the Tunes Tuesday linkup. Unfortunately, it never took off the way we hoped it would as we had very limited participation. We were hoping that fellow runners would share some of the music they enjoy to listen to on the run. But in any event, I really enjoyed creating all my playlists – I also ended up discovering a lot of great, “new” music in the process! Thanks to everyone who joined in the fun! I’ll probably get back to creating some Throwback Thursday Running Playlists every once in a while!
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…that I saw Avengers: Infinity War a few days ago and it was so good! Don’t shame me, but I’ve never seen Captain America, Thor, Dr. Strange, Hulk, the second Guardians of the Galaxy, the latest Spiderman, or any of the previous Avengers movies. It’s been impossible to keep up with them all, but Infinity War and Black Panther were so good that I think I’m going to finally start drinking the Marvel Kool-Aid!
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…that my blogging calendar for the year is almost completely empty minus my monthly goal posts! I originally hoped that I would spend more time writing quality content in 2018, but as you know, life often gets in the way. I’ll be coming up to my 5-year blogiversary this July, so I need to get back in the groove! I really miss spending hours writing posts that I hoped would help other runners and wannabe runners. I’m looking forward to having more free time to do just that!
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…that my 10 year college reunion is coming up next weekend! The University of Penn knows how to throw a party, so I’m expecting a really great time. It’ll be nice to see everyone in person after all these years (rather than on Facebook). Thankfully I don’t have to worry about losing weight before the reunion, but I definitely could use some fashion sense, lol! Where’s the best place to buy a cute cocktail dress that isn’t reminiscent of Forever 21? LOL!
If we were having coffee, I would tell you...that wedding planning has been in a bit of a lull lately. I recently sent out the Save the Dates and have paid deposits for the caterer, band, and photographer. We need to schedule an engagement session, but we’re waiting for the trees to fill in because we’re taking photos in our favorite place…the Wissahickon! We also need to meet with a prospective officiant – hopefully we can set up that meeting soon. Every decision point I’ve made so far has been painstakingly detailed…I contacted over 20 photographers before finally choosing one, smh! The wedding is less than 6 months away, so now I just need to follow my gut when it comes to decisions since time isn’t on my side! I haven’t been getting any questions about the wedding yet from family, so I guess I should just enjoy this calm before the storm! More than anything, I spend time on wedding Facebook groups and read all of the dramatic posts over there, haha!
We just need to find the perfect spots for our engagement shoot!If we were having coffee, I would tell you...that I’m really going to try this “running for fun” thing over the next couple of months. I’m not training for any races, so I want to keep a decent base mileage but not take it too seriously. Bret and I love to run, and it means a lot to him that we spend more time running for fun. There are so many great trails where we live and I’m champing at the bit to explore. I’d also really like to try one of the local running groups (though it’s still super scary LOL) and especially get back to joining City Fit Girls! Running isn’t just about PRing races. It’s about community. So as long as I can sleep in a little longer on the weekends to do it, I’m all in!
What would you share with me over coffee? Are you running for fun now or training for a race?
I have a half marathon in 2 weeks and then I’m going to dial it back for the summer. It gets too hot to take anything seriously!
Somehow, I don’t see you having much drama in your life! You can let the folks around you take care of that. Enjoy your time off the training plan!
As much as I like to try to plan ahead my posts, it’s hard to do! Things come up that I feel the need to write about and other times I have nothing! Running for fun without a race ahead sounds perfect while you are planning your wedding. That’s a marathon in itself
It’s great that you have been able to avoid wedding planning drama – I hope you remain drama free 😉 Running for fun for a while sounds like a great plan, especially with all you have going on. Plus, what a nice bonus that you and Brett can log some miles together!
After running for fun (or being sick) for most of winter, yes, I am now officially back in training. Except so far that doesn’t actually mean super long runs. They’ll come . . .
It sounds like me that you have the wedding all handled. The official was the easy part for me — in fact, that pretty much drove everything else. I wanted to be married by the Rabbi I grew up with, so the reception was also at the temple, I wore my sister’s dress (cause I didn’t want to spend $$ on something I’d wear once). Times were different then, though. If I had it to do over, I think we would have just eloped!
We haven’t seen the new Avengers yet. We’ve seen most but not all of the Marvel movies, and yes, it’s getting hard to keep it all straight! I thought we might go tomorrow since it’ll be rainy but the movie is so dang long!
As to music, I don’t run with any. Gave it up like 3 years ago. Sometimes I think I should try it again but I just never get around to it. I guess linkups are like blog posts — you just never know which ones will take off.
Enjoy your “down” time (cause I know you’re still super busy).
Although my current “crisis” is small in comparison to a wedding, I’m having a tough time getting pics ready for our upcoming graduation. Our photographer (who did the two older kids) moved, but he agreed to edit/retouch our third child’s pics and order the pics, etc. for us through his company. After several attempts to get a hold of him (in the past couple months), he is not responding. SO, I’m searching every site I can find to see if there are comparable collage canvas options, etc., and I cannot find anything that matches the others. Thankfully, I have found some that are “close” in size, so maybe if I hang everything carefully (and space them apart enough) it won’t be noticeable (??). UGH!
Bummer on Tunes Tuesday. I’ve just gotten so lazy about playlists. I haven’t made one for years. I listen to my old favorites or something on Amazon Music. I think you should enjoy a break from training and wedding planning while you can!
I’ve been doing the running for fun thing for awhile now and really enjoying it! Its nice to not have to do certain runs and to just run when I want. I hope you enjoy some time off from training!
It still feels a little weird, but I’m looking forward to it, as soon as I ease back into running!
Good luck planning the rest of your wedding decisions. I always have to remind myself not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good when I am making important decisions!
Enjoy running for fun 🙂
Thanks a lot, Kim! “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” – I need to remember that!!
I was sad to see that Tuesday Tunes was going away, but I totally get it. I only linked up a few times and it was usually only with the three hosts. 🙁
Enjoy the next few months of running for fun. That’s sometimes the best running!
Hope you found a cute dress for your reunion and that you have a great time!
You should definitely watch Thor: Ragnarok if you enjoyed Infinity War! There are a bunch of the movies on Netflix as well, including Civil War which is really good (actually, all of them are good except the Hulk one).
I hope you enjoy running for fun! I like to do that in the summers as well to get more time to run with my husband. Wedding planning is structure enough – I trained for a race before my wedding and it was too tiring! I hope your wedding planning goes well.