I’m spending the last days of 2017 lounging on a beach, toes in the sand, cold libation complete with hot pink umbrella in my hand. That doesn’t mean I’m too chilled out for a runfession or five. It’s our last chance to spill FOR THE YEAR so let’s do it.
I runfess I entertain the possibility of a 2018 triathlon on the daily….and yet every time I go to the gym and see the pool packed with barracudas doubled up in the lanes, I make a beeline for the sauna or the whirlpool. Now if sauna baking was a tri sport? I think I’d be on the podium, just saying.
I runfess I got my hands on not one, not two, but THREE temporary gym locker key cards, and I use them all at once to create a buffer of faux “lockers in use” around the locker I’m actually using. I just can’t tolerate the people who insist on taking a locker directly next to or above mine, when there are 2 rows of 25 empty lockers on each side, in my cubby alone, and then leave their sh!* all over the place. What is up with that?
I runfess I love children as much as the next suburban mom at the gym. I don’t even mind when moms bring their little girls into the locker room when they’re really supposed to use the family locker room. But when they stick their kids in the shower then take off to do who knows what, and those kids are running around, screaming? I get a little ticked, and become the “get off my lawn” lady.
I runfess I love my Berlin Marathon jacket so much, but it makes me feel bad for not getting a NYCM jacket when I ran it in 2014. I have jackets from all of the world marathon majors I’ve run (Chicago, Boston, Berlin) but not NYCM. What the heck was I thinking?? I runfess every time the New Balance ad pops up for NYCM 2017 jackets on sale, I’m tempted to get one. Is it wrong to get a jacket from a race I didn’t run? Even if I DID run it in a previous year??
Your turn: What have you to runfess? Would you get a NYCM jacket?
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I say buy the jacket! Even if it’s not the exact year, you still earned it 😉 Thanks for a great link-up (and your great blog) ((well, and your friendship)) (((and, that little 13.1 thing we did in Vegas)))! Wishing you all the best in 2018 😉
As I get older I am a get off my lawn type of lady too. What’s happening ????
I am so glad I don’t have to deal with gym locker rooms anymore. There were no kids at mine but the adults were bad enough. I couldn’t stand it when people got in my space when there were plenty of empty lockers in other areas.
Ah, locker room space! I’m still navigating around my gym buddy. Last week she turned on the shower BEFORE her workout to make sure it was nice and warm for her but then turned the industrial fan up to tornado speed to cool things off.
Happy New Year!
You should get the jacket! And don’t even get me started on poorly behaved children. There’s nothing more annoying than trying to wrestle with a child to examine their ears while the parent limply cheers them on….
There is a lot going on at your gym! Ha I am just picturing you at your locker area ha ha. Enjoy the rest of your vacation!
OMG- I love the get of my lawn lady! Too damn funny!
Look for an older one in eBay! Or buy the 2017 and take it to a seamstress to switch the year. 😄
And you should totally do a tri in 2018. Especially if you keep thinking about it.
Happy New Year, Marcia! Enjoy your vaca!
I definitely say buy a jacket! If you want one from 2014, I would check eBay or Craigslist but if you can’t find that jacket, just buy one from this year! Technically you did run the marathon so you definitely earned the jacket!
Happy New Year and enjoy your time in the sun!!
Buy that jacket. You earned it. or come to NYC and run it again!! I’ll cheer you on.
I runfess that even though I posted my runfessions Thursday morning at midnight, I completely forgot to linkup until I saw your “like” on my FitFluential post some 33 hours later. Better late than never, right? Thanks for the linkup!
Buy the jacket, but first, check with New Balance just in case they have any 2014 jackets squirreled away; or post on running group pages to see if anyone has a 2014 they’d be willing to sell. I just did a quick check on eBay and found this (https://www.ebay.com/itm/NWT-New-York-Marathon-LG-Jerseys-2014/152810124738?hash=item23943175c2:g:WqcAAOSwTM5Y6ATb) I have a jacket from each of my Bostons and I’d buy another if I ran it again. You worked hard to earn that jacket! Good luck!
I’d look on Ebay first. I always see tons of MCM stuff there. Then I’d buy the 2017 if I couldn’t find one.
I’m in Wisconsin. I’m totally jealous that you are somewhere warm.
You know how I know I am getting old, little kids and Mom’s stopping everyone so they have can have a chat with their kids in the middle of everything lol I’m like realllllllly!? but I know I did the same thing lol
Maybe you run the race again! JK…get the jacket 🙂 you were there.
The gym I belong to is near work and I go in the middle of the day so there are no kids at all there. My pet peeve is when one person lays out all their stuff on the benches by the lockers so you can’t use even a little part of it. Come on people! This is a shared space!
Your gym stories kill… thankfully it’s pretty quiet in mine at 5am, although I always wonder about the person who has to get on the treadmill right next to me when there are 4 rows of open treadmills!
Oh my gosh, I’m rolling on the floor at the ‘get off my lawn lady’!! That is so me! I loved my kids but never let them just run rampant and absolutely hate to be around those that do! The hubs and I say that we have ‘a gift’ …and that is we always seem to get seated in restaurants right next to families with loud, obnoxious, unruly kids. Ahh, yes …the gift!
Enjoy the rest of your trip Marcia and thanks for hosting!!
I rarely go to the gym/pool but when I do, I hate sharing space with someone when there are many other lockers available.
Ha I’m glad I’m not the only Get Off My Lawn lady – thankfully I don’t live far from my gym so I’ve just given up on using the locker room.
I would say try eBay for the 2014 jacket and, if no luck, buy the 2017 – you ran the race and earned it!
Enjoy the rest of your vacation and Happy New Year!
This is funny! I love the lawn lady! I hope you enjoy rest of your trip!
Well I think you’ve named every. single. reason. why I don’t belong to a gym. What is it about public areas that makes all etiquette go out the window???
Definitely get the jacket. Perhaps you can can Ebay and get it from the year you ran it?
I feel the same way about the treadmill, bike, etc at the gym. Why is the person using the machine next to me when there are plenty of other empty ones!?!??