It’s time to sit down once again with a beverage of your choice and chat – I’ll remind you that I don’t like coffee or tea so my drink of choice today will be water. Let’s chat about things other than just running, cycling, strength training, yoga, and our most recent injuries. Sound good? I’ll go first…

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that today is the last day of riding in the Great American Ride with my Dawn Patrol friends. It’s been a great challenge and has certainly helped get my cycling mojo back on track and has gotten me a little ahead of goal pace for riding 5,000 miles again in 2025.

The event ends at midnight tonight, but participants can log miles up through tomorrow at 10 AM. At the time of publishing Dawn Patrol is still in 1st place, Chuck has  moved up to 7th place, and I’m the 2nd place female and 4th place overall. I’ll have the final official results on Sunday’s Weekly RunDown.

I tried not to neglect my other workouts during this competition, but my walking did suffer a bit…

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that my youngest son just registered for his first marathon this fall and I’m so happy for him! My oldest son ran a 45-mile ultra on the W&OD Trail back in July 2013 which I organized for him. You can read all about his ultra here. Back in my marathoning days my goal was for my husband and sons to all run a marathon together some day, but that wasn’t meant to be…

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that with the exception of one workout, Garmin has been very generous and consistent with giving me productive or maintaining status notifications recently. In fact, it’s been so generous that I wonder if my Garmin is sick. HaHa!

Here’s a conversation this Garmin had with it’s owner…

 

You ran? I must’ve blinked.
Recovery time: 72 days.
Performance condition: Spiritually unwell.
Unproductive. Again. At least you’re consistent.
Fitness age: Retirement home.
Emotional age: Middle school track meet.
Would you like to share this workout?
Or bury it forever?
Consider a rest day
… and perhaps a different hobby.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that my husband and I hosted our annual Italian dinner party, three months after the original date which had to be rescheduled thanks to my ruptured appendix. We’ve been hosting this event for about 15 years and I used to do all the cooking on the day of the event. I’m half the woman I used to be and just don’t have the energy to do it all in one day anymore so I pace myself.

On Thursday I made chicken parmesan, then on Friday assembled the beef braciola and shopped at Wegman’s for salad ingredients and bread, and set the table. On Saturday, I seared the braciola and made the sauce before braising the dish for two hours. While the braciola was doing its thing, I cleaned and cut salad ingredients, remembered to get the chicken parm out of the refrigerator and put it in the oven to warm. Appetizers and desserts were brought by our guests.

Dinner was delicious, the wine flowed freely, and everyone had a wonderful time!

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d give you a very quick update on my health. First of all, I’m feeling great as my active lifestyle might indicate. My right kidney is functioning normally (although about 11% slower than the left), but for all we know it could have always been like that. I’ll have a six-month followup study to make sure all is well and then hopefully I won’t have to think or write about my kidney, ureter, missing appendix, etc. ever again! 😉

 

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Today I’m joining Deborah at Confessions Of A Mother Runner and Coco at Running With Perseverance for their monthly Ultimate Coffee Date linkup which goes live the first Friday of every month.  Be sure to stop by their blogs for a cup of coffee and to say hello; and while you’re there, be sure to check out some of the other bloggers who are participating in the linkup.

 

  • Questions:
  • • Has your Garmin been rude to you recently? ~ My Garmin spent most of last summer telling me that my workouts were unproductive.
  • • What’s your go to menu when hosting a dinner party or do you love to mix it up? ~ I make the same thing for this group each year, but my other dinner party specialties include either salmon or filet Mignon, and always with roasted veggies.
  • • If we were having coffee, what would you tell me?

 

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