May 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,211 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    @avidkeo and @quilteryoyo and anyone else:

    Yes, I run with Trekz Bone Conducting headphones, but mine a couple of years old so I think there has been at least one if not 2 generation updates since getting mine.

    Quick thoughts:

    1) They are great for allowing sound around you IN. So I can hear a car coming or a person yelling or whatever. Someone coming up behind me yelling "on your left" or whatever I can hear fine. This is why I bought them. They fill this well.

    2) Sound quality... eh, I listen to audiobooks almost exclusively on them. For that, they are about as good as any other. If you are into high-quality music, I am sure you will be disappointed, but for my use, they work well.

    3) Sound volume - Here is the first con. If you run in a noisy environment, they can not overpower much. I do not even use them when on my dreadmill. The dreadmill can drown them out. When I pass a train, I have to pause my audiobook as the train drowns them out. Most of the time this is not an issue for me so I just deal with the few exceptions

    4) Waterproofing. They officially are not waterproof but I have run in thunderstorms with them and I have to had any issues. I actually bought 3 pairs expecting this would be a problem, but it was not.

    5) Comfort. After a few hours, I find the constant pressure on my face to be annoying. I would not suggest them for runs longer than that.

    6) Battery life. They advertise 6 hours, and I would guess that is about right. I have not worn them for more than four (see #5) and they lasted that long at least.

    So there you go. That is my fast thought after a few years of running with them. They have held up in all weather from sub-zero to 100F just fine. They have been in thunderstorms, hail, and dry heat. I never had to contact customer service or tech support so can not speak to that, but perhaps that in itself is a good point. :)



    Well just did an 8k run along our foreshore.
    Thoughts from me.

    I listen to podcasts so don't care about quality. Even listening to music I don't actually care either. I they were great. Definitely could hear everything around and didn't notice any pressure issues, but then I only had them on an hr. One thing I loved is how they works in the wind. With my in ear earphones, any wind blowing directly in my face and I can't hear anything. With these on I had no issues at all. Could still hear over the sound.

    Our foreshore is really busy with cyclists, runners, walkers etc. And easily heard them approaching. I could also hear my own feet and breath lol. Unsure if that's a positive or not.

    There was some vibration but didn't really notice when I was running.

    Yeah so far after one run, I definitely rate them as pretty awesome. No issue with pressure or anything.
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,211 Member
    edited May 2020
    So i think I just got a free lunch...

    Decided I wanted Mexican for lunch, so went online to our local mad Mex, ordered and selected pick up. No check out or anything so all good. Used to paying on pick up. Went and picked it up, got into a conversation about the upgrade drink - ordered a larger size cause they didn't have the no sugar option in the small size on the website, but did have them in stock. Asked if there was a way to change it, the owner mentioned he could do a credit, I said I hadn't paid yet. Both he and the server said yeah you have, even holding up a receipt showing amount owing was zero. The server even gave me a voucher for free fries.

    I was a bit confused cause I didn't remember putting in my payment details but thought with Google, anything is possible.

    I'm home now and I'm still fairly sure I didn't pay. Nothing taken from my account or my credit card - which I've removed from Google pay anyway.

    And when I go to their website, it looks like I can order the same thing again, and it's not charging.

    So I'm going to try contact them and let them know. But yeah, free lunch
    ETA I've FB messaged and emailed them to let them know. That eases my mind about the free lunch.
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    So i think I just got a free lunch...

    Decided I wanted Mexican for lunch, so went online to our local mad Mex, ordered and selected pick up. No check out or anything so all good. Used to paying on pick up. Went and picked it up, got into a conversation about the upgrade drink - ordered a larger size cause they didn't have the no sugar option in the small size on the website, but did have them in stock. Asked if there was a way to change it, the owner mentioned he could do a credit, I said I hadn't paid yet. Both he and the server said yeah you have, even holding up a receipt showing amount owing was zero. The server even gave me a voucher for free fries.

    I was a bit confused cause I didn't remember putting in my payment details but thought with Google, anything is possible.

    I'm home now and I'm still fairly sure I didn't pay. Nothing taken from my account or my credit card - which I've removed from Google pay anyway.

    And when I go to their website, it looks like I can order the same thing again, and it's not charging.

    So I'm going to try contact them and let them know. But yeah, free lunch
    ETA I've FB messaged and emailed them to let them know. That eases my mind about the free lunch.

    Make sure you update us on how this turns out. Thank you for reaching to them about this and not doing as some do and laughing all the way to the kitchen.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    Monthly question?

    The rant
    Warning. I don’t know where I’m going with this.... as usual. And it’s superficially deep.
    (Spurred by a conversation with dh. I voted to remove a being from this plane of existence, he felt differently. I was appalled).. cuz I’m right. Doy! ☺️
    I hate people, people are horrible and I love social distancing, we treat each other with such distance and disregard so easily, me; love it. Look at social media, the grocery store judgements, (yep me... all y’all doin’ it wrong), right? Say/think whatever you want without considering that the consciousness on the other side is you. (A moment for some self reflection)... Despite my disdain for the human race, when you stop and look there is simple kindness shared, little things that move our souls to a place of connection with others, (this thread). How great could we be if kindness were socially acceptable and not reserved in play dates with other 4 year olds? I found myself this week so irritated that all y’all were back out, in MY way. Just gaggles and smacks and tribes and prickles , (Man these are fun!) of people. Why are they all not dead from covid. Ok. Ya, that’s harsh. I don’t mean it, but I am so centered on me, no one else matters. We all got it. Oooh. I don’t like “y’all” cuz I don’t like me? Hmm.. did I just take my toys and go home and not want to participate with the human race? Oh that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I think I made a bubble. The world is in a health crisis. Seriously, and I my internal dialogue is still a kitten?

    Be vulnerable, be kind. It is not a weakness. It takes character and strength to make your own decisions and not hide them from the world under the guise of harshness DO care for other grody, greedy, grimy human beings. Although... I dun like it and wanna be secretly judgy (at the grocery store, not y’all) 🤗. But I’ll totally let y’all butt in front or wave you in in traffic. I got your back, sometimes. Is this an existential crisis?

    The question?
    Hmmm, lead me to enlightenment ... What do you do to thwart your ego?

    An easier question
    Favorite food as a kid! And what was the first movie you can remember seeing at the theatre or drive-in?
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Monthly question?
    Favorite food as a kid!

    Fluffennutter!
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Monthly question?
    Favorite food as a kid!

    Fluffennutter!

    Wow! Had to google it! Bet that was a great kid snack!

    I had canned chili once with mayo in it, it was oddly good, til it wasn’t. 🤢
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Monthly question?

    The rant
    Warning. I don’t know where I’m going with this.... as usual. And it’s superficially deep.
    (Spurred by a conversation with dh. I voted to remove a being from this plane of existence, he felt differently. I was appalled).. cuz I’m right. Doy! ☺️
    I hate people, people are horrible and I love social distancing, we treat each other with such distance and disregard so easily, me; love it. Look at social media, the grocery store judgements, (yep me... all y’all doin’ it wrong), right? Say/think whatever you want without considering that the consciousness on the other side is you. (A moment for some self reflection)... Despite my disdain for the human race, when you stop and look there is simple kindness shared, little things that move our souls to a place of connection with others, (this thread). How great could we be if kindness were socially acceptable and not reserved in play dates with other 4 year olds? I found myself this week so irritated that all y’all were back out, in MY way. Just gaggles and smacks and tribes and prickles , (Man these are fun!) of people. Why are they all not dead from covid. Ok. Ya, that’s harsh. I don’t mean it, but I am so centered on me, no one else matters. We all got it. Oooh. I don’t like “y’all” cuz I don’t like me? Hmm.. did I just take my toys and go home and not want to participate with the human race? Oh that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I think I made a bubble. The world is in a health crisis. Seriously, and I my internal dialogue is still a kitten?

    Be vulnerable, be kind. It is not a weakness. It takes character and strength to make your own decisions and not hide them from the world under the guise of harshness DO care for other grody, greedy, grimy human beings. Although... I dun like it and wanna be secretly judgy (at the grocery store, not y’all) 🤗. But I’ll totally let y’all butt in front or wave you in in traffic. I got your back, sometimes. Is this an existential crisis?

    The question?
    Hmmm, lead me to enlightenment ... What do you do to thwart your ego?

    An easier question
    Favorite food as a kid! And what was the first movie you can remember seeing at the theatre or drive-in?

    Movie: Snow White, saw it with my grandmother in the 1975 re-release (had to look that up!) so I would have been six years old, during the year I lived with my grandma while my parents were selling their house and my dad was swapping jobs. I remember thinking the evil queen was prettier than Snow White so that mirror had a problem.

    Food: well I had a bunch of them. But my special dinner that I always asked for on my birthday was a thin cut pan-fried t-bone with side of fresh, beautiful summer tomatoes.

    Ego: gonna come back to this one. But it’s been on my mind lately - liking other people is a little tougher than usual for me right now!
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,211 Member
    @ContraryMaryMary yay! And definitely feeling winter, was 4 degrees here this morning, brrrrr

    My marathon in July has officially been postponed. I was expecting it, but still disappointed.

    I'm currently 60% of the way through my training plan. The marathon was supposed to be 5th July, and it looks likely to be pushed back to 30th Aug, 6th or 13th September - so roughly 2 months.
    So do I:
    A) keep training and just do the marathon on 5th July as planned - I'm still going to the city anyway cause family.
    B) change my training plan for the 6th September until the date is confirmed.
    C) other (state what this is).

    I'm leaning A because the training is about more than running a marathon, it's about fitness etc. And I'm enjoying doing the longer distances. And so far the body is holding up OK...
  • hanlonsk
    hanlonsk Posts: 762 Member
    @elise4270 - even your “easier” monthly question has led to some strange self reflection.... and y’all might be about to find out how strange I truly am....and this will probably end up kind of long and random, because that is what I am good at. But hopefully is at least entertaining?

    Food:
    If you had asked me this question as a very small child - like before kindergarten sort of young- my answer was apparently “Lima beans” - like WTF sort of small child has Lima beans as a favorite food??

    The next that comes to mind is “elk” steak.... I put elk in quotations, because apparently my sister and I, along with the two cousins we mostly grew up with, all went through a strange phase where we decided that elk meat was the ONLY meat we would eat, and that it was far superior to any kind of meat. Which since the other choices at the time were deer, antelope, or cull cow... we may have actually not been wrong?? But what I learned as the oldest child in the family.... 90% of the time the “elk” meat meant that gramma told “yes, of course it is elk,” and got rid of the evidence to the contrary very quickly. Haha. As a result of this duplicity.... I still lack the ability to actually differentiate types of red meat by taste. I had a coworker take one bite of CHILI I made once, get a disgusted look and ask if there was deer meat in it.... although it was a possibility based on freezer contents, I couldn’t remember what I used, and had no idea that it mattered to adults.
    And particularly with @rheddmobile ‘s comment on what you would request for a special “birthday dinner” myself and one cousin of mine would both usually request “breaded elk steak and peas potatoes and cream”..... what we calledbreaded steak is kind of like a chicken fried steak?? Only homemade?? And different?

    However, although I also had to google @pastorvincent answer..... and I’ve never had THAT.... it led to fond memories of peanut butter and honey sandwiches... and y’all know I still like me some macaroni and cheese with hot dogs. :smiley:

    Movie: like @rheddmobile I SWEAR it was Snow White. Like, until surprisingly recently, I had believed Snow White was made in my lifetime, for this reason. Although, after doing the same googling the true “rereleases” were 1987 and 1993. Which has me questioning my memory. I would have barely been a year old by the end of 87. But would have been 6 or 7 in 93. But I’m pretty sure I saw this movie when we lived in Alaska - so when I was 3-4 and 89-90? So, maybe just a kids summer matinee thing?
    I don’t know... the next one I remember seeing in theaters is little women... which google says is 94. That one does seem right in the world of time.


    Harder question: probably will take some work to discuss my thoughts on ego and people skills in the current environment in a way that is appropriate.... I will give that one some time to mull and filter.
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    On the headphones, regarding a couple of @PastorVincent's observations. I have not had any issues with the loudness and being able to hear with them. I have worn them in the gym on the treadmill w/o issue and not had any real issue with cars, trucks, etc. I also don't run where I am very close to cars, trucks and definitely no trains. I get more than 6 hours on a battery charge, more like 8-9. I have found I can charge them once a week and get all my runs in and rarely have the battery be depleted but it has happened a time or two.

    @elise4270 - your questions make my brain hurt... like steam coming out my ears hurt...
    Ego - mostly I am not very self confident but if feel my ego needs to be checked I think about others who are much better at whatever, much smarter, much stronger, much... just looking around at all the amazing things people are doing and accomplishing makes me realize I need to do better and up my game.

    Favorite food as a kid - my mom's apricot jam... like @hanlonsk I also loved peanut butter and honey sandwiches. We didn't really go out to dinner and never out for fast food. On our birthday though we could pick to go out or have something 'special' at home. Since we really only ever had venison, I always wanted to go out for a 'real' hamburger at A&W or Red Steer.

    First movie... kind of like going to restaurants my mom didn't believe in spending money on going to a movie but our neighbor used to pile all the kids into her station wagon and take us with a huge pan of fresh popcorn to the drive-in. I am guessing here that the first movie I saw at the drive-in was Swiss Family Robinson (I would have been about 4 or 5 when it came out) but what I really remember is Old Yeller, I suspect it was on TV though.
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Why all y’all gotta be huggin’ me? I’m not a nice person and have no idea how to interact with people. Haha! I am nice. I do love all y’all, truly I do. And I’m naive that everyone else is just like me.

    I got my 5th hip/leg surgery scheduled yesterday and think I might be loosing it. Remember the rod? It needs to be replaced, bone re-cut, and twisted ‘round. Oh don’t worry, it’s not the last one; we’ll have the 6th in December/January. And I wanna save the world but it seems hopeless. I have this fear that I’ll have a reaction to the bone cement and die. So, told ya so (if it happens). Oh I turned 50 last month... I could be dealing with my own mortality and trying to feel accomplished, stages of development and all. Life is weird.

    I hug you because I love you.

    You are one of the kindest, warmest most friendliest person I've ever met on the Internet. Your support and compassion is incredible, especially with what you are going through. I will never ever forget you and how generous you are.

    So even though I've never met you in real life, I am honoured to have been able to get to know you, even if its just the little bit that we see here.

    Thank you for being you.

    I agree with everything @avidkeo said and couldn't have said it any better! You are amazing!
  • ImeldaOmom
    ImeldaOmom Posts: 12 Member
    35.1 /55 km Completed
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    @elise4270 do not worry. I was considerate and did not hug you. You know social distancing and all that. ;)
  • Mari33a
    Mari33a Posts: 1,281 Member
    edited May 2020
    My favourite food was anything with meringue on it, pavlova, lemon meringue, baked alaska yummm! My first trip to the cinema was on my 16th birthday. We watched Nuns on the Run, it wasn't even that good.

    On the social distancing and restricted travel I'm quite liking it. We are usually over run with arrogant tourists who thing they are doing us backward locals a favour.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Favorite food as a kid: I really loved mashed potatoes. Still do!

    My July half marathon was cancelled (AKA, it's now a "virtual event"). It still stings even when you know it is coming.

    5/1: 2m
    5/2: 8m
    5/3: 18m
    5/4: 1.75m
    5/5: 5m
    5/6: 5m
    5/7: 5.25m
    5/8: 2.5m
    5/9: 8m
    5/10: 13m
    5/11: 2m
    5/12: 5m, 6.5m
    5/13: 8m
    5/14: 1.25m,
    5/15:1.25m, 6.75m
    5/16: 15.5m
    5/17: 20m
    5/18: 2.5m
    5/19: 5m
    5/20: 5m
  • Tramboman
    Tramboman Posts: 2,482 Member
    5-1 7k moderate
    5-2 7k easy
    5-3 11k easy
    5-4 rest
    5-5 7k moderate
    5-6 7k moderate
    5-7 7k moderate
    5-8 7k easy
    5-9 11k slow
    5-10 7k moderate
    5-11 rest
    5-12 7k moderate
    5-13 7k moderate
    5-14 7k thresholdy
    5-15 7k easy
    5-16 11k slow
    5-17 7k moderate
    5-18 rest
    5-19 7k moderate
    5-20 7k easy

    May Total: 131k
    May Goal: 170k

    January Total: 161k
    February Total: 167k
    March Total: 181k
    April Total: 191k

    2020 Total through April: 700k

    Cloudy, mid 50s F and windy today. Knees were stiff and right SI joint was unhappy.

    Ego? Need do nothing more than look in the mirror.

    Favorite food? Does it get any better than grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup?

    Drive in movie? Ben Hur. I made it as far as, "Where the beams cross?"

    @elise4270 Hugs are never earned. They are always freely given as a gift from the giver.

    When you pop in here claiming your December 2020 mileage, what accomplishments will you have made?

    Return to a good running weight of 175 lbs
    Run at least 4 5k races
    Get a 5k PR
    Average at least 138k per month, to meet my Run the Year pledge of 1,020 miles
    Stretch goal: If I can average 169k per month, I can run 2020K in 2020

    Run the Year Team: Pavement Pounders

    2020 races:

    6-20 Freedom Run 5k, Aurora, OH
    9-19 Race for the Parks 5k, Hudson, OH
    10-11 Haunted Hustle 5k, Aurora, OH
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,534 Member
    edited May 2020
    @Avidkeo I'd go with A.

    Love the shoes @bearly63 . Hope they work out for you.
  • Scott6255
    Scott6255 Posts: 2,569 Member
    @bearly63 So glad you had a good fitting session at Fleet Feet. I am still waiting for the one 'near' me to open up. Wishing you all the best on your first run in those shiny new shoes!

    @Elise4270 girl, you are always so deep ;) But you know we all love you for your kindness and generosity over the years!

    First Movie: I honestly don't remember the very first movie I went to in the theater, but I do remember my first 'R' rated movie -- my Mom took my brother and I to see 'Animal House'!!!! Yeah, I had a dysfunctional childhood :o

    Favorite food: Again, can't remember much as a very young child, but I remember for later birthdays I would always ask for lobster. Can't remember the last time I had it, but I think I still like it a lot.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited May 2020
    I love these interactions. @MobyCarp would have really enjoyed this. I understand it is a hard question and a little exhausting to look at too long. I appreciate the hugs, its a broken area within me. I think with age comes should come the ability of self reflection. Entering nursing school, really trying to understand and be in a place to provide care to everyone without judgement, allows one to examine personal bias. Also an assignment that we become more aware of ourselves. As a whole humans are just a mess, individually were just smaller messes.

    Sort of talking to DH he quoted me this:
    "At the root of such experiences lie the basic egoic patterns: the need to be right and, of course, for someone else to be wrong; that is to say, identification with mental positions. There is also the ego’s need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between “me” and the “other” without which it cannot survive."
    I do not have a citation (ETA Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle), but thought that offered (me) and understanding of this human conflict. or conflict in being human. well, like i said, it gets tiresome to explore. I think for quarantine, I should have gone to sit on a mountain.

    @Tramboman Look in the mirror? I've never seen a reflection that I felt was me. Maybe that's the true reflection... If I looked in the mirror, and my reflection was you. I'd be elated and feel overwhelmingly happy and a sense of comfort and love. I can see you, but I can not see me.

    favorite meal as a kid
    Easy. My dad use to make me cheese sandwiches with lettuce and mustard on wonderbread. best ever. And I can't seem to reproduce that. He'd pick persimmons of the road side for me to eat and laugh when I got a sour one. To offer some balance- Mother made something called goulash that I think was just spaghetti and tomato sauce. i loved it.

    First movie
    I am sure we went to others, I remember being at the drive-in, but no idea what we watched. I remember walking to the concession, remember driving in to pay with the whole family, but not the movie. First movie that I can remember seeing was the Octagon with chuck norris. I think My dad was stoked to see it, he took me and not the little brother. But like the everyone else the time line isn't lining up. Movie was released in 1980, I'd have been 10. My parents divorced in '78 undoubtedly, because I spent my 9th birthday on a greyhound bus from california to texas, post divorce. Movie with mother? uh... once we were at this persons house and the adults were getting high and we kids were watching the little drummer boy, which was some some freaky porn-ish show about a little person and sex was magical and changed him to not a little person, then he realized he was happier the way he was and went back to being little. I remember lots of sex... was 10ish. I will not google the air date of that one.

    Live with purpose.
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    5/1 – 3
    5/2 – 3
    5/3 – 3
    5/4 – 3
    5/5 – 0
    5/6 – 2
    5/7 – 4
    5/8 – 4
    5/9 – 3
    5/10 – 10K Mother’s Day virtual
    5/11 - 2
    5/12 – 3
    5/13 – 2
    5/14 – 5
    5/15 – 4
    5/16 – 5
    5/17 - 5
    5/18 - 2 - it's Skip's birthday so I ran 2.0 in honor of her turning 20
    5/19 – 4
    5/20 - 4

    67 of 50 miles

    @Teresa502 I use Strava the same way you do, I follow friends and my running groups/challenges

    @eleanorhawkins Fleet Feet also has rewards, you spend so much and you get $15.00 I think it is. I also have their app and I get rewards for doing certain things, if I’m at an event I check in and get a reward, run so many miles get a coffee mug etc. It’s pretty neat. Sad for me that Skip no longer works there though they do things like throw in a hat or sunglasses when I spend money ha ha

    @katharmonic if Strava let me add gear on the app I’d pay for it

    @Elise4270 I have no ego, I’m pretty much a live and let live person. But I’m almost 59 years old and the attitude of *kitten* it comes later to some people. I’m sorry to hear about the surgery.

    Favorite food as a kid – grape jelly and still is a favorite, grape jelly on plain old white wonder bread
    First most at a drive in – can’t remember that one, but I’m sure it was in black and white ha ha

    @Avidkeo I had a big party for a dinner my ex boyfriend was retiring from the Army, there were like 12 or so of us. The bill came I paid it and figured the tip was included, later I looked at it and it wasn’t OMG I wanted to die, the server must have thought what a *kitten*. I called right away and explained and they said he didn’t add it since it was a military retirement and they even gave me a discount OMG so I added back the discount and 30% for the tip ha ha

    @bearly63 Skip is wearing those exact same shoes, same color and all.




    Races:
    Mother’s Day Virtual 5K – done
    Retro Run Virtual 5K – done
    Rona on the Run - Virtual for St. Jude benefit - done
    Keep Moving Huntsville - at least one mile a day 1 - 31 May
    Pirate Challenge – 10 weeks mile challenge June - Sept
    Flora-Bama 600K - Virtual race from Huntsville AL to the Florida Alabama state line in Orange Beach
  • Teresa502
    Teresa502 Posts: 1,869 Member
    Monthly questions @Elise4270 – Favorite food as a child – cake. I’m still the same today. I could care less about meat and veggies, but I swear my face automatically lights up when I see cake!

    First movie I remember seeing was a James Bond 007 movie with my sister. We lived in Kentucky at the time and my parents let us go down the street to the theatre. I was probably 10 or 11 years old. Our family rarely went out to eat and never went to the movies. My sister and I must have really been getting on their nerves for them to send us to the movies on that day!

    Ego – no great words of wisdom. I just try to do me. I hate being judged by people who have no idea what the entire story is so I try to be open-minded and give people the benefit of the doubt or just ignore them…
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,186 Member
    May Goal: 100 Miles

    5/3: 11.07 miles
    5/5: 6.25 miles
    5/6: 5.71 miles
    5/7: 5.16 miles
    5/10: 13.2 miles
    5/12: 5.35 miles
    5/13: 6.40 miles
    5/14: 5.31 miles
    5/17: 10.02 miles
    5/19: 6.55 miles
    5/20: 6.55 miles

    81.57/100 miles completed for May

    517.74/1000 miles for Run the Year Team Pavement Pounders

    I ran the same route today as yesterday so 6.5 miles. It was a good run, but not as great as yesterday. Not really sure why. Some runs are just better than others. It was pretty warm at somewhere between 68°F and 70°F. It just felt like a typical summer morning run. I had a lot on my mind at the beginning of the run and some of my thoughts were making me annoyed. But as the run went on it got better. I tried to focus on things around me. I saw a few cats and some cows. I only saw one dog and he was in his fenced yard. He barked at me, but he was pretty far off the road and really just seemed like he wanted to go running with me. I saw lots of birds. Two pairs of cardinals, a robin, some grackles and mockingbirds. I saw a few walkers and one lady who was running and then walking. I greeted everyone I saw from a safe distance. Social distancing hasn't been a problem for me on my runs. I don't usually see that many people out any way and it is always easy to stay at least 6 feet away from them.

    @elise4270 I'll tackle the easy questions first. My favorite foods as a kid were my mom's chicken and noodles and her fried pork chops and gravy. On my birthday I usually asked for strawberry cake, but I also love my mom's brownies. The first movie I remember seeing in the theatre was "The Apple Dumpling Gang". I don't remember it being a very good movie, but I was 7 and going to the movies was pretty cool. The first drive-in movie I saw was "The Other Side of the Mountain:. I was 7 for that one too and I really liked that one.

    Now for the hard question. I don't really know the answer. Most of the time I don't feel very confident. I don't think that my ego gets out of hand too often. But I also think that I am right most of the time, so maybe it does.
    I have been told before that I will never admit that I am wrong. But I really think that I will admit when I'm wrong, but I'm not going to admit that I am wrong just so someone else can be right. Typically if I am going to argue with someone about something it will be something that I feel very confident that I am right about. I've always tried to go by the motto: "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Sometimes I'm good at that, and sometimes I'm not. I have found that as I am getting older and dealing with peri-menopause symptoms, I am more irritable and more likely to make snarky comments. But I do try to keep it in check and not always say what I feel because most of the time I think people are just trying to do their best, not trying to annoy me, and I try to give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean, maybe those people in the grocery store just don't see all the signs on the floor saying that the aisles are one way and they don't know they are going to wrong direction. I would be right if I told them they were going the wrong way, but is it really my place to do that? The theme for the Un-Canceled Project this week is kindness and I've really been trying to think about ways I could be more kind. Sometimes I feel that I'm generally kind to others, but not always kind to myself. And I get frustrated because I always try to be kind to others, but often feel like others aren't always that kind to me. So I don't know if I answered your question or just rambled on some nonsense.

    @bearly63 I love your new shoes! I hope they work out. I wish there was a Fleet Street near me.

    @faebert One thing I love about this thread is seeing everyone's different opinions about the weather. We have already been over 100°F several days in May. But today should be "cooler" and we are only supposed to hit 90°F.

    @Avidkeo I'm glad you asked about the aftershokz. I've been thinking about getting some and really liked seeing all the reviews. Usually I listen to music with just one earbud. It works ok, but I have to wrap the other earbud in my hat and it can be annoying sometimes. Plus sometimes I find earbuds in my ear annoying if I wear them too long. And I'm really glad you got the "free lunch" straightened out with the restaurant. Not everyone is as kind as you.


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