As yet another month winds down, I can honestly say August did not fly for me the way previous months have. There’s something about heading back to school (kids) and going back to work (me) that sort of throws things into slow motion. That said, its time for another visit to the runfessional. Let’s get started with the Runfession Friday Linkup!
I runfess I’m mystified by a lady I see on the trails every weekend who walks with her nose buried deep in a hard-cover book. Yep, she walks for miles just reading away. How does she not fall? And why has she not heard of audio books?
I runfess I get a little stabby after running over 90 minutes or so, especially in the heat. When I’m on the trails and the mountain bikes ride 2 and 3 across, basically hogging said trail, I may mutter an obscenity or two.
I runfess it’s taken me a year and 3 months but I finally solved the mystery of the metallic sound during the bike leg of a tri I did last year. That’s right: LAST YEAR. Let’s rewind to May of 2017 when I was taking part in the Tower Triathlon. At least half of the bike leg was on “rough grooved surface” Yep, that’s as exciting as it sounds. On the first lap through said surface, I heard something metallic hit the ground. I feared I busted an axle (do bikes have those) or a wheel was about to fall off my bike, but nothing. I’d long forgotten about the incident until the other day when I noticed the cap at the end of my handlebar was off and the tape that wraps around it was starting to unravel. Mystery solved. Better late than never, right?
This has nothing to do with my runfession, I just coudn’t resist
While I’m not the biggest pumpkin spice fan that ever lived, I runfess I’ve already got pumpkin spice coffee in the house. Let the record show I haven’t had any yet. Blame it on a sale too good to pass up.
Last year around this time, we received a wedding “save the date” card. It was very nice and the couple looked very happy and all but there’s one thing amiss. We have no clue who this couple is. Fast forward a year and a shower invite arrived for me. Really? I swear I’ve never laid eyes on the bride-to-be in my life. I stalked Facebook to look for friends in common and find out where she and her finance are employed and nothing rings a bell. I runfess I blew off the shower. I mean really, what was I supposed to do: Call and say “oh by the way, who are you?” Now I’m wondering when the wedding invitation will get here.
Your turn! Ever get an invite and have no idea who it is? Pumpkin spice: Yay or nay? Has August flown for you? Or crawled?
I’m linking up with Meranda, Lacey and Rachel for the Friday Five.
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There’s a man in my neighborhood who walks his dog while reading the newspaper — I don’t know how he does it! While I always grumble at cyclists who pass without signaling (whether I’m running or riding) it’s usually women running three across that frustrate me when I’m cycling.
Um. I’ll skip everything pumpkin spice for now. Even — and especially — the feminine hygiene products.
I gotta runfess…you totally crack me up, Marcia 😉 I wish we lived like 3-1/2 hours closer so we cold meet up in person for coffee or a meal (instead of just random RnR races LOL). As much as I love pumpkin pie (with plenty of whipped cream), I am not a huge pumpkin spice fan. There are pumpkin spice granola bars, though, that are legit…but that’s where it stops for me.
That is too funny about the save the date and shower! I would have probably done the same thing. I dont know how people walk and read at the same time. Audio books are definitely a better option!
My guess on the invite is that it’s the wrong address. So maybe you should contact them? They’re probably wondering why they’ve never heard from someone.
There’s a woman I see at a local park. She kind of dressed as if to run but I’ve never seen her running. She just seems off, though.
I have a feeling that the next few months will go by really fast for me. Except for the gosh darned heat!
That is just so bizarre about the wedding invite. Does your husband know who the people are?
I gotta runfess that I don’t like pumpkin spice. Anything. It’s probably unpatriotic, right?
Omg I totally would have gone to the shower. 😂 Go to the wedding at least! Hahah
I used to see a woman walking on the bike path near my house reading a book. I love to multi-task, but come ON! I knew that pumpkin spice stuff would start showing up soon, but that is just taking the pumpkin spice craze too far!!! I that a real thing or a joke?
You and your hubby could be wedding crashers! Except you actually have an invitation.
That is crazy! I would totally contact the bride and ask who they are! That is so funny a woman reads while walking on the trail. I loved reading as a kid and I would read a book on my walk home from school. 🙂 I never fell.
I can’t imagine walking with a book?! That is just crazy. LOL
The mystery wedding/shower invite is just priceless – it would be driving me crazy to not figure out who the couple is!
And just no to the whole pumpkin spice thing – especially Tampax!
I do not think I could read and walk-too much coordination for me! I have a philosophical ban on pumpkin until October. I am not the hugest pumpkin fan to begin with and it’s gone way overboard. I saw paper towels the other day. Why would you want those??
Umm, not even sure what to say about those pumpkin spice tampons lol! And that lady with the book, my son likes to read and walk when we go into stores which is so tricky!
LOL at the tampons! I’ve already eaten Pumpkin Spice yogurt. I hear the PSL arrived at Starbucks this week. I’m so proud I didn’t cave. Yet…
Oh this post made me laugh out loud at work! I just had visions of the woman’s head buried in her book and then the wedding and (SHOWER) invite issue, haha!
I’ve never received an invite to someone’s wedding I didn’t know, it’s kinda funny! August FLEW by for me…but that’s okay. I was on vacation at the start and back on it this week! Back to school next week for our kids!
I don’t think you’re alone about getting grumpy with longer runs in the heat. I was so HANGRY after my 20 mile run this past week and no one was safe. Once I got food in me, I was totally fine.
That wedding shower thing is SO WEIRD. Maybe ask family members about the mystery couple? How did they get your address? That’s definitely a mystery lol.
A coworker has a pumpkin fall scent in her diffuser, and it reminds me of the Captain Crunch Berry smell. I’m still on my orange scent, for summer. As much as I want to do fall things, it’s still summer. I’ll feel differently in a couple of weeks.
Pumpkin spice tampons??? Lol is that for real?? I don’t get how people can walk and read at the same time. I guess because I am so easily distracted that I wouldn’t be able to focus and maybe not everybody is like me ha! I think I would have to call the “mystery couple” and find out who they are. Do they have a wedding web site? Seems like most people getting married these days have their story on line.
I can’t even read when I’m walking on the treadmill so no clue how that woman does it while walking outdoors!
I will admit that I laughed out loud at the picture of the Pumpkin Spice Tampax hahahaha. I do love this time of year because it’s all about everything pumpkin.
OMG, I am LITERALLY LOL at the whole save the date and bridal shower invite! You don’t know this about me but I am such a Nancy Drew (thanks to my Investigative reporter days, I was a journalism major) and I would have been ALL OVER that trying to figure out who the people were. Seriously, I kind of really want to know there names so i can investigate them for you! But really, obviously if you are invited to weddings and showers you shouldn’t have to “think” about how you know the person… this is just too funny?
I bought my first Pumpkin Spice air freshener about a week ago but have not sprayed it yet. I refused to spray it until the middle of September!
The only things pumpkin I like are pumpkin candles and pumpkin curry soup. Plus, it’s about eleventy thousand degrees, so pumpkin spice latte seems… perhaps a little bit of fall overkill right now.
That’s hysterical about the invitations of people you don’t know. I have never had anything like that happen! I think you’re ok if you skip it and any further festivities LOL!
Kitty! That made me smile in preview
I’m anti pumpkin spice in summer purely because it shouldn’t exist as pumpkins haven’t yet been harvested. It’s as wrong as apple cider out of season
I have to runfess to reading a book on my phone while walking the dogs…
I see people walking and reading books sometimes and just wonder how fascinating the book must be if they can’t bear to put it down.
That tampon box is a riot! I’m not a pumpkin spice fan at all. Especially not in my coffee.
Weird about the invite. Maybe one of their parents is or was a co-worker of yours or your husband’s. Obviously they know who you are! I’d stalk the bride’s FB page for pictures from the shower. Maybe you will recognize someone.
I’ve seen people reading and walking, I don’t get it.
People that don’t share the trail/path irritate me, I’m pretty sure I runfessed that before too.
I don’t like pumpkin and don’t understand the obsession. Love the Tampon meme!
Weird about the “Save the date” thing. Maybe you should go…it could be fun!