It’s Runfession Friday! The day we spill our fitness transgressions and start fresh and new for another month. Share yours today and the last Friday of every month by linking your postup below. I promise you’ll feel better. Let’s go!
Wetsuit struggles. At my triathlon, they pushed back the race start twice due to lightning. This left me sort of thinking/hoping maybe the swim would be cancelled. So when the waves finally started going off, I was left scrambling to squeeze into my wetsuit. Getting into that sucker is like wrestling a boa constrictor. The pouring rain did not help. Um, at one point I had my leg in one of the arms. Don’t ask me how I achieved this.
In my mind I’m a cheater. While I was flailing through the swim portion of the tri, I entertained the thought of swimming under the lane lines and cutting across to avoid one (or more) of the out and backs. Of course I didn’t actually do it, but the thought was definitely there.
Bike cheater too. The thought of doing only one bike loop instead of two crossed my mind as well.
Star Dash Junkie. I don’t like to brag but I’m a S’bucks gold card carrier. For the uninitiated, they have Star Dashes where you can earn bonus stars that net you free drinks. Since I’m bragging, let me tell you I’ve got mad Star Dash skills. Hit up 5 different Starbucks locations in an hour? Check! Buy 57 bags of whole bean coffee from Tarjay? Sure! Belly crawl by the light of the new moon through the Starbucks drive-thru and order a frap? Why not? I confess I am a star dish addict and the powers that be at Starbucks cannot dream up a mission too challenging for me.
Save the turtle? Or not: Last week when I was rushing to pickup Thing 2 from a playdate, there was a rather large turtle in the road. Rush hour was just beginning and I knew I should pull over and rescue it. But instead I swerved so my car would pass over it rather than smash it, and went on my way. Since then I refuse to go that way when I run, because I don’t wanna see if it became road kill. If it did it’s all my fault for not moving it. But would I really lift a giant turtle with my bare hands?? That’s kinda gross!
How about you? Have you rescued a turtle? Would you touch one with bare hands? Do you have wetsuit skillz?
I’m linking up with Courtney, Mar and Cyn for the Friday Five.
I am sure trying to figure out a wetsuit would be a disaster for me as well! I would have felt bad about the turtle but I don’t think I would have touched it with my bare hands either.
I live for star dashes. Pretty sure I’m working on one now. Long live Starbucks!
I can barely get out of a sports bra, much less a wetsuit!
Never wore a wetsuit or saw a turtle in the road. I actually love to swim, but don’t bike & that is why I don’t tri.
Love the runfessions (as always)! I almost spit out my oatmeal picturing you wrestling into that wetsuit. We actually moved a turtle yesterday during our run. A) it was an excuse to stop and B) well, it was an excuse to stop!
Ewww to the turtle…
And you’re not a cheater. Not at all.
I’ll be linking up later this weekend! I do have a post prepared, but I had to do the sunglasses….
I’m with you, I definitely wouldn’t have picked up the turtle with my bare hands! So gross!
Very little running here leads to a lack of runfessions for this month. I just encountered a turtle on a run the other day – luckily my hubs was with me so I made him move it 🙂
I actually HAVE rescued a turtle! With my bare hands even 😉
There is a reason I stick to running. Triathlon is way too complicated for this girl…
I love these posts. I have saved a turtle! When we lived in Virginia I would pick them all of the time and move them across the road when I ran, and a few times out of I stopped the car and moved them. They are mean and hiss at you.
I’m addicted to stars too – have quite a few bags in my closet.
This left me laughing! I am not a Starbucks lover, but I feel the exact same way about Dunkin. Oh you’re running a deal where if I come 20 times this month I can get one free coffee…what if I come 40 times?! Thanks for the morning read =)
I’m not a Starbucks person so I had no idea what a strong community you guys have! Did you really have to belly crawl?!
I’d probably be scared to see what happened to the turtle too. I’ve never held one but I like turtles!
The things we do for Starbucks stars haha. I thought about cheating at my last 10K – I could have cut through part of the course and cut off a mile. I really thought about it cause it was so hot and humid, but I would have known – and a lot of people would have seen (<– the real reason haha).
Wetsuits are tough! No matter how cool it is on race morning I’m always sweaty by the time I manage to struggle into mine. You have to really get the crotch pulled up or you’ll suffer from lack of mobility in the shoulders. It is like really thick pantyhose!!
Ha I always secretly hope they will cancel the swim too! WE’ve all thought about cutting that course but you didn’t!!
I’ve rescued turtles, and frogs before!!! Wetsuits look far too complicated for me!!! LOL~
You are so funny! That wetsuit freaks me out- I took a scuba lesson once and about passed out before I got the damn suit on! I am feeling bad for the turtle but seriously are you gonna pick it up? I am thinking I would not be able to get it off the ground. Have a great weekend funny lady!
I have a wetsuit for skiing in cold water – which I don’t do. So, I don’t have skills. My boys had turtles that grew big like the one in your pic. We let them go at the lake. We recently had a big one in our yard and jokingly said one of ours finally returned home. Took him all these years! Just FYI. Turtles poop ALOT. Big turtles make big poop. House becomes stinky.
It’s not cheating if you don’t do it. If it was I’d be one too.
I would say “SAVE THE TURTLE” but in a hurry to get to the gym I didn’t save the bunny! #gymfessions #badgymrat #itwasanaccident! 🙁
LOL! @ the sports bra comment above! I swear I have the hardest time so…I know I would struggle! And yes, I I’ve saved a turtle several times on our trail to keep it from getting ran over! SAVE THE TURTLES!
I would do the same thing with the turtle- no shame! I just discovered your blog via the blog share group. Awesome! My @RunFession is that I stopped and peed (well, squatted) behind a car during my first marathon. Oops!
I definitely stop and move box turtles off the street and running trails all the time. My story with the huge snapping turtle didn’t end so well. While debating on how to get it out of the road, a car drove by and hit it squarely with a tire. The poor turtle’s shell made a loud exploding noise and the turtle was history. I drove my kids to school a different way so they wouldn’t see its squished shell/body in the middle of the road. 🙁
Have a great weekend!
So I am scheduled for a long run of 14 miles. I do 10 and log 14 because I feel I could have ran another 4 at given pace. Mom is waiting for me at home with 2 boys. Haha. I’m a cheater. Yes I have rescued a turtle in the road before.
I saw a whole family of ducks on the inside shoulder of the freeway a few weeks back – literally nothing I could do but I felt bad I couldn’t help them.
I have always wondered that about wet suits. I would wish for the swim to be cancelled too, if I were a triathlete 🙂
You are officially my starbucks hero. Teach me your ways!
Not judging your Starbucks at all – I tried all the new frap flavors.
PS – MY confession should be that my runs are kicking ass. I don’t think i have worked out this hard in years. However, my diet is like a small child, unsupervised, at a party. I am so off the wagon right now. Like off the wagon rolling the the dust with multiple pints of Ben & Jerry’s.
yes! as a kid I would move the turtles in my neighborhood-but now i feel the same way you do…eew. And, I rarely remember to do all the extra bonus things for starbucks- i try and only go when I travel or after a long run that doesn’t end at my house.
I am dying over the Star Dash 😉 Hahahaha belly crawl by the light of the full moon. You are hilarious!
I have a hard enough time with sports bras when I am sweaty…can’t imagine a wet suit lol I don’t think you are along in your Starbucks addition!
Poor turtle, animal guilt is the worse, I saw a cat get hit right in front of me, I knew he wasn’t going to make it but I couldn’t look at him either…I left him alone…still feel guilt 🙁
I joined the link up late, but I had to whine once more about the heat! LOL