Happy Monday and weekly check-in

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Firstly:
Congrats to losingit and everyone who raced this weekend! If you haven't done so already, tell us how your race went, we'd love to hear about it and congratulate you!

Second:
Inspiring quote for today:
Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.

-Kristin Armstrong, Author and runner

And lastly:
Any difficult goals you're stretching for this season? How do you deal with the fall/winter blahs and bad weather if you're Northern Hemisphere and the transition to summer race readiness for those of you in the South?

Comments

[mansikka]

It's an interesting question to contemplate, since I'm running Chicago marathon on Sunday and so I've been a running machine, but will probably need to take a break afterwards for a little while. I move to NYC and start work in a week and a half, and I know I'll be hard-pressed for time, and sleep. Not to mention my new place is on the fifth floor of a walk-up with steep stairs and no elevator. :D Not to mention, also, that I had a stress fracture in my foot after running Chicago last year, and then cracked a rib, so I was out of commission for a good four or five months.

That said, I think I'm setting some running goals for late winter or early spring, thinking of a half marathon in February, perhaps.

The one kind of embarrassing thing that I could see keeping me motivated-guilted-happy to run? Buying winter running clothes (nice and cheerful ones, say, lululemon). Hey, I don't have too many cold-weather running clothes, and well, if I buy a couple of articles of spendy running clothing, I'd feel ridiculously guilty for not using them. ;)

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I'm wearing my favorite long sleeved running top right now :-) There's an outlet mall on Long Island that has a Nike store :-)

(If you find a good 1/2 in Feb/March, let me know, I'll be moving back to LI for about a month before moving overseas and I'd love to do one before I leave. (There's always the Shamrock Marathon and 1/2 in VA Beach in late March but that's a good ways from NYC)

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PS Good luck and have fun on Sunday!