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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We were calling it social distancing, and I guess we still do that on the rare times we go out, but basically we call it quarantine, or self-quarantining, when explaining to a relative who HAS NOT been careful but wanted to stay over at our house after a 3 week road trip. Anyway, we headed him off. But seriously, why should we take precautions and then let someone who hasn’t into our house?
Last July we had unseasonably cool mornings – low humidity and it was in the 60s(!) – and I was out with my herniated disc and felt like I was really missing something, so I get how you are feeling. We runners are so acutely aware of good running conditions, aren’t we? 🙂
Ha, how did I forget to add that one to my list?! I am glad you could say no when you were uncomfortable with them staying there! How did they react?
Oh my gosh, 60s there in July?! Yeah, you totally get that feeling. We runners always know what is up with the weather, ha!
In my area it was first called the “shelter-in-place” by county officials and some people still use that. Also some people here call it the “shutdown.”
Oh yeah, shelter-in-place! I knew there was another s-word in-place one but I could not think of it this am! Shutdown is another. Gosh, I need to add about three more to this poll!
I am SO jealous of that weather. Here in North Texas, the highs are in the mid- to high-90s all week.
I wish I could share it with you Texans!!!! <3
We call it “lockdown” here, even though we were never completely locked down. It’s all relative, right?
GOOD LUCK TODAY!!!!!!! Fingers and toes crossed here for you!!!
Oh! I remember you saying that phrase!
Thanks so much! <3
What is this beautiful weather you speak of??? These days, an 80-degree day feels like BLISS, haha. We’re in the triple digits here with a crazy-high UV index that makes going outside kinda dangerous!
I say “quarantine” even though I know that’s not the right term. It just seems like the easiest way to put it!
I know, it’s so odd to be having it right now! Next week sounds horrible there. Most of the time sounds horrible there. Props to you for dealing with it!!!!!
It is the easiest term and I think that is why most people use it, even if they didn’t quarantine!
I was so excited about the weather on Monday in particular – it felt like the end of September/beginning of October and I was LOVING IT. Though I definitely overdid it on the running – I ran Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week, and oof. My legs were lead on Wednesday. I don’t know what I was thinking. I ran three times TOTAL in the month of July, and then thought I should kick off August with three days of running in a row? When I never, ever run three days in a row? I felt very obligated to take advantage of the good running weather, since I haven’t been running when it’s overly hot recently (see: July). Oh well. No running for me today! But you’re right: it’s really hard to not want to take advantage of the days when it’s SO nice when it’s been gross for so long. Monday especially was like that one day in April where it’s randomly 75 and sunny, and it’s like OMG MUST BE OUTSIDE ALL DAY. Even though in a few weeks it’ll be 75 and sunny all the time (or, you know, in that general vicinity), just like in a few weeks (…months) it’ll be in the 60s and overcast all the time.
I don’t actually know what I’ve been calling this time at home! I think I usually say stay at home? Actually, I usually say “since the world caught on fire,” hahaha. Accurate enough 😛
That is exactly what Monday felt like, and it was heavenly! I can totally see why you overdid it with the running, and I hope your legs feel better now, just in time for the heat to come back!
I really don’t think we get too many days that have a high in the 70s and are sunny, so when we do, we all really appreciate them. Like you’d think we’d have a string of them in the fall or spring but we rarely do! So when we had them this week it was like CELEBRATE! Ha! (Hopefully by saying this now we have a beautiful fall!)
Gah, that is pretty accurate phrase too! Eek!
I’ve been calling it “Shelter-in-place.” At first, that term sounded like we were under an immediate, active attack, but now, it sounds normal (if not a little long).
Actually, re: your feelings about the weather, I used to tell H that I wishes for some crappy weather days here so I’d have an excuse to stay in and read, do crafts, sit on the couch, etc. And now, I have that excuse. Not saying that I *love* sheltering-in-place, but I do like being able to make the best of it with all my hobbies.
When you have podcasts to catch up on, do you start from oldest to newest or the other direction? And do you mark ones as read that you’re not interested in?
That is what it sounded like to me, too! I wonder why CA decided to use “shelter” and IL used “stay.”
I totally get that. I love a bad weather day when we don’t have anything critical on the schedule! But so that I can be absolutely lazy. Ha!
It depends! I usually pick the ones I am most interested in first to catch up! Otherwise, I start in the back and go forward. And I do skip ones I am not interested in!