Coffee. Contemplations. Chatter.

Shall we convene, con coffee, and chat for a bit?

I don’t know about you, or even the general population, but I’m always up for some chatter amongst my peeps. Even if we can’t meet face-to-face, a virtual gathering will suffice quite nicely. If there are warm beverages involved, all the better. 

That being said, I’ll go first…

If we were having a coffee chat session, I’d start by sharing my August stats. As mentioned in last week’s  Runfession post, August was a bit of a bust, at least in terms of running.. With my nasty fall (and subsequent road rash & achy body parts), I had to scale-back the running while things healed. Fortunately, I had my walking and biking to fall back on, so things balanced-out in the end (sort of). I’m just grateful to be feeling (mostly) normal again. 

Another thing I’d share is the lightbulb moment I experienced a few months ago. As I was unpacking and organizing my new kitchen, I was having difficulty discerning what to put where (and what to store in the basement). This new kitchen isn’t blessed with as much cabinet space as what I’d been accustomed to. As a result, I decided to stash all my keepsake glass pints where I can actually use them. In my other house, they’d been on display in the dining room hutch, but were pretty much forgotten since they were out of sight (I know #MyBad). Now, I use them on the daily, and it’s nice reminiscing on the events from where each of them came from. 

Garmin recently “awarded” me the Rise & Grind Badge, for having seven consecutive days of recorded early morning activity (truth be told, I think I’ve earned this previously). Well, I think we all know I’m up early everyday anyways, but I’m not always recording my workouts on the Garmin (strength, yoga, stretching, for example), so this gives me the motivation to do a little bit of cardio every morning (walking, biking, running, elliptical)…you know, because why not? We’ll see how long I can maintain this streak, LOL. 

Since moving to my new town, the long-standing Wednesday #5at5 runs, usually with my dear friend Barb, had ceased. I did meet a couple local gals, Kelly and Hannah, who invited me to join them on Wednesdays for their routine #3at445 (three miles at 4:45AM). After a few months of these 3-mile meet-ups, I started running two “bonus” miles afterwards, on my own, since I was already warmed-up and had enough spare time. Before long, Hannah started joining me. Just last week, Kelly joined us as well! I still haven’t recruited any full moon runners, but stay tuned, LOL. 

Finally, Thursday night's group run was intended to be a Cy-Hawk gig. After all, it's Cy-Hawk Week in Iowa (the big inner-state rival game between the Iowa State Cyclones and the University of Iowa Hawkeyes is on Saturday). Well, Matt (the Altoona Running Club's president) and myself (the newbie) were the only ones in official team gear. There were a few people in the team colors, but still. This rivalry is huge, so I was really surprised only two of us were taking it seriously, ha! Does that qualify as a first world problem?

Okay, I think I've had the floor long enough. 

What would you share if we were having a coffee and chat session? Did your August play-out nicely? How early do you routinely get out for your runs, or for working-out? Would you rep your alma mater at a group run, especially during the week of a big game?

 Since it's the first weekend of the month, I'm linking this with Deborah and Coco for the Ultimate Coffee Date.

I'm also linking this with Michelle, Renee, Darlene, Jenn and Zenaida for the Fit Five Friday Link-up.

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