Did you know that today is National Wear Red Day®? It’s the day the American Heart Association encourages us to Go Red For Women, wear red to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease, and donate to support research on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Here we are at the last Weekly Wrap of January and I am reporting my first run of the year. I took a month off cut way back (only running on the treadmill at Orange Theory Fitness) with the hope that my plantar fasciitis would get bored and go away.
That didn’t happen, but my test run didn’t leave me hobbling like our hike last weekend did either.
It’s my second favorite day of the month in this corner of the blogosphere–the day we bare our souls with our runfessions. (My favorite day is when we get together for our virtual ultimate coffee date, which we do the first Saturday of the month.) At the end of a month with almost no running you might think I wouldn’t have much to runfess, but most of you know me better!
Is mid-January too soon to be looking forward to vacation in late July? We registered months ago for a four-day guided hiking program in Yellowstone National Park, and finally got the phone call finalizing our reservations. While I’m confident we will be able to handle the moderate-rated “brisk aerobic hikes” it doesn’t hurt to practice our skills. This week we ended up hiking close to home, at Roosevelt Island and around Lake Accotink.
We started the year with a short family vacation doing my favorite winter activity–skiing in Park City! I learned to ski as a spoiled child when we took nearly annual ski vacations to Switzerland. That sort of ruined local East Coast skiing for me, but we took our kids to Whitetail and Wisp a few times. A few years ago a friend invited us to join her in Park City, and we’ve enjoyed skiing there every winter since.
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