Gratefully Runfessing

Happy Black Friday! It’s a special day when I gratefully share my runfessions. Join me over at Marcia’s Healthy Slice where we can all cleanse our souls soles and get a fresh start for December.

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Gratefully Runfessiong

Looking back at last year’s Black Friday runfessions, I gratefully runfess I sometimes forget I was plagued by a hamstring injury for most of 2023. I am truly grateful to be running essentially pain-free these days, although I am still wary of long distances and racing. I am grateful I found an orthopedist to do shockwave therapy on my hamstring, and grateful it worked. It still nags a bit from time to time, but more often from sitting too much at my computer than running.

This year’s easy pumpkin and pain-in-the-ass apple pie!

Speaking of running, I runfess I used to plan a long run on Thanksgiving morning to “earn” my calories, and then switched to Black Friday long runs to burn them off, but I’m gratefully no longer worried about those numbers. This year I spent Thanksgiving morning baking pie and I plan to hit up a Black Friday sale at my local running store early this morning. I did take Peloton’s live 45 min Thanksgiving Feast strength class while my pumpkin pie was baking—and got in extra stair intervals checking on it in between AMRAP blocks. 😋

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Speaking of Black Friday sales, I runfess I shopped Athleta’s “early Black Friday sale” twice. Once on my birthday with my birthday coupon and again this week to buy the same items in different colors because I liked them so much. 🤷‍♀️

Speaking of sales, I runfess the Costco deal on the Peloton Bike+ may finally get me to give up my “app only” status. It’s under $2K including the extended warranty, which is almost 1/3 the usual price. I’m not sure I’ll get enough “more” out of it to make the higher membership fee “worth it” but there are worse things I could ask my husband to spend money on for me for Christmas. 🤭

Extra thanks to Kim for putting this collage together!

I gratefully runfess that I am glad to know each and every one of you — you motivate and inspire me more than you will ever know, and I am very thankful this fitness blogging thing brought us together. Whether I’ve met you in person or not, I count you as a friend. (I’ve runfessed this before, but it bears repeating!)

Do you have any grateful runfessions?

Are there any Black Friday sales you’ve already taken advantage of?