Whats up associates!
We’re on the brink of head to Pittsburgh for the vacation with Matt’s household, however we did an early Christmas with my mother and father final weekend which was actually enjoyable!
Riese was very into the current scenario and tried to unwrap everybody’s presents for them…
As for different vacation enjoyable final weekend, on Saturday morning I ran a vacation 10k with associates Kathleen and Katie!
Please excuse our orange look – the dawn made for bizarre photograph lighting!
We ran the Christmas Caper 10k hosted by the Potomac Valley Track Club at Hains Level in DC. I discovered about their races from a weblog reader (thanks!) and thought it sounded enjoyable – they’re tremendous small and low key which was a pleasant change after the huge Marine Corps 10k final month.
Once we arrived at Hains Level on Saturday morning to seize our bibs (which took 2 seconds and was proper by the beginning space, the place there was additionally ample free parking – whole wins), we had been handled with a beautiful dawn.
There have been solely 25 folks operating the 10k and about 50 doing the 5k – good! Each races took us out and again alongside Hains Level, with the 10k returning to the beginning space after which going again out for another out and again of the identical 5k.
Let’s do that! It was a beautiful sunny and chilly morning for a run.
It took me awhile to get into the groove with this race – it felt laborious for many of it, and I didn’t love that we got here again to the beginning/end space and went again out once more (though I did like having the ability to seize some water and ditch my vest at mentioned turnaround level).
Once we went again out for the second lap I used to be like “ughhhhh I want we had been already executed” however then I ended up getting second wind and into the movement of it and having fun with the second lap greater than the primary! It helped to have my associates to speak with – we stayed collectively and talked the entire time.
These beautiful views helped, too!
On the Marine Corps 10k a pair months in the past my end time was about 1:02 – so ending in beneath 1 hour was a giant enchancment! Slowly however steadily getting my health again.
Our precise end time was 58:24 – I forgot to cease my watch instantly. I used to be happy with this time, particularly because it included a not very speedy water cease on the turnaround level!
You already know what’s enjoyable about operating tremendous small races? It’s really potential to put within the high 3! 😉
Katie took house a third place feminine end for her age group (she’s youthful than we’re!), and Kathleen and I tied for third place in ours. Candy!
All of us gained a Christmas tree decoration as our prize. 🙂 Riese was thrilled once I introduced it house, she loves glittery ornaments!
Such a enjoyable morning. Thanks for getting me on the market and for the good firm, girls!
Different vacation enjoyable we’ve had just lately is a vacation dinner at our associates Katie and Mike’s place – the identical Katie from the 10k! Their son goes to highschool with Riese, and Wes is definitely beginning of their daughter’s class in January, they usually stay solely a pair blocks away from us so we hang around rather a lot which is enjoyable.
That they had a raclette banquet – have you ever ever had a raclette dinner? It’s sort of like a twist on fondue – you employ a tabletop grill to organize your personal little creation with meats, veggies, and so on., and then you definately pull out little “drawers” beneath, place bread or potatoes or any of the veggies and meat in it, then high it with cheese!
I went for the bread choice with cheese on high, after which as soon as it was melted I added meat and veggies on high of that. Scrumptious and enjoyable to do one thing somewhat completely different!
One different vacation spotlight from this week is that Matt and I took Riese ice skating one afternoon! We did this final yr, too, and it was actually enjoyable so I knew we needed to take her on one other particular “huge lady ice skating date” (Wes was house napping with our half time nanny).
She began out fairly cautious with the assistance of this little penguin thingy.
After which by the top she was forging out on her personal somewhat bit!
Their child skates have double blades which helps with steadiness – she initially had common single blade skates and he or she was NOT cool with that scenario so we swapped.
We’re headed as much as Pittsburgh this yr to rejoice the vacations with Matt’s household, and we determined to go away a day sooner than deliberate because of the huge snow storm/chilly snap that’s making its method in the direction of us in the intervening time.
It’s wanting completely frigid in Pittsburgh this subsequent week – yikes. Hoping the climate warms up rapidly as a result of holding a giant group of youngsters cooped up indoors all day is just not my favourite factor ever…
I’ll be taking subsequent week off of running a blog so there shall be no new weblog posts till the brand new yr. I hope you have got an exquisite week and I’ll catch you again right here in January!
In case you missed it, right here is a few recipe inspiration for the weekend forward:
