Hello! Well it is T-minus 6 days until my summer vacation. I am not a teacher but I work with Head Start programs so I get a wonderful summer vacation away from work to relax, recuperate and gear up for the next school year. Last summer was a blur of buying a house, moving (being slightly homeless for a bit) and planning a wedding so relaxation was not on the list of things to do. This year relaxation is pretty much all that is on the list of things to do!
During the school year when I do work, I have the distinct pleasure of not working on Tuesdays, I work a 4 -10s schedule that leaves Tuesdays for cleaning, running and napping. Its amazing, have I mentioned that I love my job? Well this past Tuesday I had a buddy to hang out with as my sister is a teacher and is already off of work. After my AM nap, yes sometimes there is also a PM nap - I like my sleep, I went to her house to confer on paint colors then her and her 1/2 & 3 year old son (his words, not mine) came with me to do some errands. One of my errands was to pick up my new compression socks, more on that later, but on my way we saw a coffee stand with a sign on the side advertising a "latte & lefse" special. Now I should mention my maiden name is Ericksen and in my family I have members named Leif and Johan, and we all are fair, blonde, blue eyed folks - make sense? I LOVE lefse! And I will say this coffee shop did not disappoint. I am glad it is not on my way to work or I would have to do some financial explaining to my husband, yum! I could write a whole blog on how awesome lefse is! I liked the picture below as you can see my nephew also in the back seat holding up his lefse, the love runs deep! By the way I am the blonde on the right, sometimes I forget to mention that in pics with my sister, we look a lot alike but I have the little bit rounder face and longer hair.
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| Lefse Love! |
Moving on from yummy carbs, though I am not sure what else a runner would want to talk about. I have heard that today is national running day. To celebrate I am going to go run a 10k tonight for slow people. Yep, you are not allowed to participate if you run a 10k in less than 45 minutes. This actually makes it sound like a race for middle people, I think slow would have an hour cut off! My 10k PR was 1:06 and my last 10k was 1:15, though that was through icky shin splints. Regardless I think there is a chance I may be near last or the actual caboose of the slow person race. This is when I tell my self to put my pride in my pocket, buck up and lace up! Wish me luck!
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| Sometimes I have to remind myself of this! |
Speaking of days of celebration in Anchorage today was also our Muni bike to work day. So I just started biking to work a bit last month and have been loving it. Its seriously a bit embarrassing how easy it is and how long it took me to finally do it. I love being on a bike, zooming around corners and pushing my legs is probably one of the best feelings. Can I say that on a running blog? Running is more of a love/hate - mostly love, but biking brings me back to being a kid, there is just something awesome about it. So today I put on my bike shirt, and I don't mean a fancy biking shirt, I mean my shirt that has little bikes all over it, and my fancy pink pants and off I went. I heard there were stands set up to make this day fun and boy was that right! I stopped along with many bikers at about 8 tables set up in a park that were full of games, info, chocolate, coffee and bacon. Yep it was awesome! After I pulled myself away from the goodness with a full belly it was seriously hard to pump up the 1 hill on my ride. What a fun day. You can see how many people were at the stand in the picture below. And this was just one of many of these stands around town that are sponsored by local businesses and organizations. I just love seeing the community come together and be active, it makes me smile from ear to ear! So in parting I would like to say Happy National Running Day and Happy Anchorage Bike to Work Day!
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| Bike to Work Day! |
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| Bacon, Coffee, Chocolate, and Bikes - Woohoo! |
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