Today was mostly recovery from yesterday. I had plans to clean the kitchen and write up my most recent races in my running log, but I just didn’t manage it. I did fold laundry and put it away, and I took a shower. Counts for something. I didn’t get outside for my traditional New Year’s…
I made the unwise decision to run the New Year’s Eve 5k even though I was sick because I really wanted the medal. I did ok… didn’t run without walking, didn’t run very fast when I was running, and generally felt exhausted the entire way. When I finished, it took every ounce of energy just…
We finished the year strong with a Penn State football playoff win, deli sandwiches for dinner, a challenging game of Mind the Gap, and party hats. More importantly, we finished – and started – the year together.
It was a nice end to the year. We had our annual Festivus celebration at church, then food shopping, then Robin cleaned out our game closet, which was an insane mess, had fried ravioli, meatball subs, and then had a nice celebration at midnight with our traditional deviled eggs (I think Robin had 8 or…