Here we are! It’s the first Runfession Friday of 2017! Time flies when you’re having fun, right? Ok maybe not so much with the grey weather we’ve been having, but let’s get this party started.
I told you running wireless (think no more dang earbuds) was the bomb dot com. And it is. No awkward wire trailing after me and getting caught when I run, nothing jammed in my ears or falling out of them. It is a love match between me and my Aftershokz. It really is. Or was. Until I lost…I mean misplaced…the charger. I know I put it in a really good place. REALLY good. So good I can’t find it. I ripped apart the kitchen junk drawer, the mega bowl of assorted chargers to everything and still? Nada. Woe is me.
You may know I love me some Nuun. On days I do a brick workout (bike-swim, bike-run, what have you) I like to refill my bottle and pop in a new Nuun tablet during transition time. The other day I was in the gym locker room refreshing my bottle and about to use my very last tablet of Strawberry Lemonade Nuun (all-time fave) when I dropped it and it went rolling on the gross locker room floor. I runfess I put the 5-second rule into play. And I live to tell about it.
Because I’ve been doing one helluva job of making it to the gym this year, and doing those brick workouts I just told you about, there’s always that risk of failure to pack everything I need in my gym bag. While, knock wood, I haven’t been caught sans bra or commando lately, I seem to be having a difficult time remembering clean socks. Wth??
I runfess I get highly irritated by the follow-to-unfollow tactics on Instagram. I mean is that not the height of disingenuous manipulation of followers? I’ve begun to boycott the brands that do this repeatedly and lately I may have taken to writing comments on the offenders’ pics telling them so. Hippiebutter, Zensah, I’m looking at you. Maybe it won’t help, but boycotting and outing offending brands feels pretty good.
This is the first year in FOR EVER that I don’t have a kiddo selling Girl Scout Cookies. I runfess this thought fills me with joy!
Your turn! What have you to runfess? Do the follow-to-unfollowers drive you nuts? Fave Girl Scout Cookie? Nuun?
I’m linking up with Meranda, Lacey d Rachel for the Friday Five.
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The Instagram follow/un-follow tactics are so ridiculous. Good for you for calling them on it!
Thanks for the linkup!
I am excited to join this link up for the first time! Mine doesn’t come out until tomorrow though. So eww the gym floor that’s brave of you! I despise the whole follow-unfollow thing too. I just don’t get it and it’s rude. Thanks for the link up
Omg…the gym floor….you brave , brave woman!!
Love my aftershocks….if you have an android, you can use that charger for the headphones.
I need to give Nuun another try. I didn’t really notice a difference when I used it.
I guess I haven’t paid much attention about IG follows/un-follows the numbers really don’t mean much to me really.
The follow/unfollow thing is SO tacky. DO they really think we don’t notice what they’re doing? Nuun….I tried and tried to like the stuff…the flavors were good, I just couldn’t take the “fizziness” of it. Not sure I really noticed it doing much for me anyways…but I probably wasn’t drinking enough of it, cuz of the fizz factor. And the gym floor? I would have rinsed the tablet off in the drinking fountain (quickly, before it dissolved much) then popped in my bottle. 😉
I admit I’m not sure I could have used it off the gym floor, but I don’t like the new formula and I’m rationing the old ones I have. So, yeah I probably would have done it…
I love my Aftershockz headphones! I wear them around the house to listen to podcasts and such, not just when I’m running. I don’t even know if I still have my charger because I just use the one for my Samsung phone. I don’t know what kind of phone you have but if it’s Samsung you’re probably in luck.
The follow/unfollow is really annoying. While I always try to follow people back, I have started using one of those apps that lets me know when someone unfollows. And its amazing how many accounts will unfollow within a day or 2 of following.
I love Nuun but not sure I would have used it after it fell on the gym floor! If it was some sort of food I may have found myself in the same situation…
I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to unfollows, but it’s obvious it goes on & since I really want to connect with people (unless it’s a contest! Then I just want stuff!) it is annoying.
But I do like Zensah products.
I’m not a germaphobe but I have to admit I wouldn’t up have done that. You’re braver than me!
Cookies are my nemesis. And even though I was a GS, I don’t buy the cookies!
I love my aftershocks! Game changer! Do I need to send you a pic of the charger maybe you just forgot what it looks like ? 🙂 You no down here in the south we may have invented the 5 second rule! You go girl! I don’t get that whole follow/unfollow thing- ugh…….. TGIF Coach M!
If I was doing brick workouts, there is NO WAY I would remember everything. Not a chance in hell.
I wasn’t aware that brands were doing the follow/unfollow thing. Geez.
Haha, the five second rule. You are more brave than me. Especially since my recent bout with norovirus…
Omg the follow/unfollow thing drives me INSANE. I’m going to start commenting. Great idea.
Can you email aftershockz and ask for a new charger?
I haven’t taken the Bluetooth plunge partly for that very reason! My favorite headlamp is still safely put away in a very sensible place :-/ LOL on the nuun!
I too am a Nuun addict – just ordered $85 in new tubes – whoops. I would have done the exact same thing.
And yes, I realized after the second time what Hippie Butter was doing and refused to follow. Hate that follow to unfollow – either follow me or don’t.
The follow/unfollow game on Instagram is HIGHLY annoying! I think I might just block repeat offenders in the future.
Kudos to you got getting in those brick workouts, especially in the winter! I always have an issue with forgetting things in my gym bag. I write down everything I need on an index card and keep that inside my bag. That way I can pull it out and look at it while I’m pakcing the bag.
First off I thought you where going to say you were disappointed that you had your last tablet of Nuun (cause that really sucks). However, I feel like I might have done the same thing!
An following-unfollowing is the pits, just don’t do it!
OMG! I HATE it when I join a flash follow on IG , only to see a TON of people unfollow me the next day. It’s maddening. Seriously, do they think that makes me want to keep following them? How rude! And, my aftershokz. Oh lordy! It’s a LOVE AFFAIR! Their customer service is really amazing. I’m sure if you called them, they’d send you another charger! I have a pink AND a green pair. #runnerproblems!
I’ve resisted Bluetooth headphones for the same reason – and for not wanting another thing I have to get charged. LOL on the Nuun tablet!
OMG – I hate it when I join an IG follow to only be unfollowed a day later! Doesn’t really want to make me continue to follow them either! How rude! I seriously have a LOVE affair with my aftershokz! I LOVE THEM SO HARD. I have two pair. Their customer service is amazing – have you tried calling them for another charger?
I’ve heard that Cookie season is here but I have no suppliers! I wish I could get some thin mints, not gonna lie!
OMG that 5 second rule…you are brave!
You should still be able to use a regular phone charger for your Aftershokz, assuming you’re not an iPhone person. Aren’t they the best?
Hope you have a great weekend!
5 seconds. I thought it was the 10 second rule. So you’re good.
I have never had Nuun. I just plain old water.
Good for you on getting to the gym and dong your workouts.
I hate needing so many chargers – I have 5 that I use at least.
I have also been forgetting items to take to the gym…Tuesday it was a shirt, today it was a bra ?? Oh well! I use Nuun all the time ??
Samoas…although I think they renamed them to Caramel Delites. GS, what was wrong with that name? I runfess I’ve picked up salt caps I’ve dropped on the pavement in a race. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
OK that’s some diehard dedication to Nuun! LOL you are definitely a braver woman than I!
I hope you find that Aftershokz charger – I’m totally addicted to mine.
Thanks for the link-up!
You are brave! I admire that! I recently overheard a mom at the gym telling her daughter to NEVER, ever sit on the benches without a towel, it was really funny! the little girl kept asking “Why? yes, but why? and what if I drop my candy there?”
I can never find Girl Scout cookies when I want them! but I’m glad you won’t be hauling them around this year!
I feel you on the socks… I either have 5 pairs of sock, or none at all.
This is the first year I haven’t bought girl scout cookies since we moved and I feel less guilty not buying from neighbors I don’t know – I have mixed feelings about the situation though ha
My IG account is private, and that tends to limit the follow/unfollow tactics. I may allow some companies, but then I don’t follow back. Sorry :-p
I did order girl scout cookies, but it’s once a year, and it’s a major fundraiser for them. I also donated a box since 6 boxes were enough for me. I have two cookies with my lunch, then two cookies after dinner. That makes them last a while, and they freeze.
I love IG but certainly don’t play the follow/unfollow game. I don’t even know if I would know hot to tell if someone “unfollowed” me..lol
I haven’t had anybody ask me to buy girl scout cookies this year. I usually buy a box of the peanutbutter ones for my dad. Is girl scout cookie season over yet? Did I dodge it?
I can’t imagine the things you would need to pack to do a brick… I’m pretty pleased that I remember everything when I change at work to go run. Twice I have forgotten something… once socks and another time shoes! I have a thing for Thin Mints, thankfully the hubs does too so I don’t get a chance to over-induldge.
Oh my gosh, nuun tablet on the floor?? I so would have done the same thing! Those things are a precious commodity! Samoas …fave girl scout cookie of all time! I could literally eat the entire box …at one sitting! 🙂
Great job on the tri training! I’m seriously impressed …when is race day?
I don’t follow anyone back that doesn’t comment or reach out for me or until they follow for a while…. I hate when people follow you just so you follow them back to get more followers…. that’s so lame.
My runfession is that maybe for the first time ever I run for the joy of running. Ok maybe not the first time ever but it’s been a long time. No goals, races, or training. And it’s exactly what I need right now. Maybe it’s the yogi in me 🙂
Oh, and wireless? It’s the only way to go!
Have a wonderful weekend Marcia.
Oh no! I hope you find that charging cord soon. 🙂
I can’t believe you still used that Nuun tablet. J/k. I probably would have done the same. lol.