To add insult to injury, we’re having amazing running weather right now while I am resting due to a sore hip.

Sigh. That dew point. Walking (vs running) in it is just not the same.

My hip feels a lot better, but I can tell running on it at the end of July tweaked my right leg (my calf is so tight!) so I am resting a bit more, and therefore I am in a mood. Add in stress about tomorrow’s interview and I bet I am a lot of fun to be around!

Then I wake up and see those awesome temps and have so much FOMO! But I tell myself, “those temps will come again – you’re only missing out today, not forever!” (Yep, I have to reassure myself.)


I was thinking about the weather (<—amazing blog content right here!) and how I look forward to each season, and am grateful to live somewhere with so much variety! Like, I don’t need to be sad about missing out on good running weather today, because every season is going to have good and bad days (just mostly bad days in the summer, ha).


Not running much and being around other people for the past week and a half means I am SO behind on podcasts! Not sure if I will catch up!


And my biggest worry about not running much, after my mood, is weight gain. Sigh. Once I got in to the stay-at-home order groove and quit eating my feelings, I was doing a good job of steadily losing (a very small amount of, ha) weight. My secret weapon was that running so many miles was, for whatever reason, an appetite suppressant. So I ate what I needed to on run days, but never felt super hungry until rest days! I leaned on that more than learning to not snack when I am bored or anxious or whatever inconvenient feeling I don’t want to deal with. Will I finally learn how to deal with my emotions at the age of 36? Stay tuned!

Vacation was a weight loss setback, but no major gain, which was what I hoped for, but it’s time to quit eating like I am on vacation!


Do you say “quarantine” or “stay-at-home” order (or whatever it was called where you live)? I always say stay-at-home order because we were never technically quarantining from exposure (I suppose, until now, coming back from Iowa). But I hear most people say quarantine! We haven’t done a poll in a while so here ya go:

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