You know those “25
(or 10, or 20, whatever) Things You Don’t Know About Me” lists that were popping
up on Facebook with the frequency of pimples on a hormonal teen’s face a while
back? I loved them. LOVED. them. (The lists, I mean, not the pimples. Thank all that is good in the universe for
Retinol.) I love answering quizzes,
making lists, and, just as much, reading everyone else’s answers and
lists. I don’t much like people, as a
whole, but I find them fascinating and those Facebook lists never failed to
entertain me. But they’ve been absent
from my life for quite a while and, though I social media it up as a
profession, I’m not a Facebook
trendsetter, so I haven’t had the nerve to start a new one up.
So imagine my joyful
surprise (picture a kid awaking to find a pile of Benjamin’s left under her
pillow by the Tooth Fairy) when my favorite lady runners posted this little
number on AnotherMotherRunner.com
this morning: 10 Running Related Personal Questions.
Ooooooooooo!!! Yes, I literally squealed in delight. In the middle of car circle, whilst dropping
off my 10-year-old son at school. He was…
thrilled. I’m sure.
I’ve been mentally
working on my answers all day and I’m now ready to commit them to paper (pixels,
whatever) and share with you. And I’ll
be checking back on Another Mother Runner’s site to see what other people answer
– remember, the answers of others are even more fun than listing your own! Hope to see yours, too.
1. Best
run ever: This is actually
a tough one and I have to do that annoying thing of giving it a tie. Go ahead and hate me now. It’s hard to beat the excitement of my first
race, especially when it involved running in one of my favorite spots on earth –
Epcot – with my favorite person, the thrilled son mentioned above. It was runDisney’s Royal
Family 5K in Feb. 2012; we weren’t fast, but we took lots of pictures, made
lots of memories and became inextricably hooked on running in Disney. Which makes my second nominee for Best Run
Ever rather unsurprising: my first time over 7 miles, run while on vacation this past summer in Disney World. We were
staying at Disney’s Beach Club Villas and it was a beautiful, strong,
well-paced run… with the promise of rides and piles of yummy food offerings at
its conclusion.
2.
Three words that describe my running: Determined.
Cleansing. Wonky. (‘Cause that’s how I
run – wonky.)
3. My go-to running outfit is: A C9
black running skort from Target, Badass Mother Runner tank, black compression calf sleeves, white visor.
4. Quirky habit while running: As I’ve written before, my cadence naturally goes along
with the beats per minute of whatever music I’m listening to. Though I’m not
sure that’s very “quirky.”
5.
Morning, midday, evening: Morning, in
order to get the miles in before the temp here in Florida goes from “hot” to “surface
of the freaking sun”, but I much prefer late afternoon.
6. I won’t run outside when it’s: Monsooning. No – make
that monsooning with lightning. Because
I’ll totally run in a torrential rain – I’d just prefer not to be electrocuted. Unless that would speed up my pace…
7. Worst injury—and how I got over it: IT
Band Syndrome. I’m still working on it.
8. I felt most like a badass mother runner when: I took
on a mountainside in North Carolina – 300’ elevation climb in less than ½ a mile. Boo-ya!
10. Potential running goal for 2013: There is no "potential": this IS the goal - runDisney’s
Princess Half-Marathon, Feb. 2013 – with the most amazing group of
fellow Mother Runners a gal could ask for!
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