I bought the Yoga Body hip-opening challenge (they had a Black Friday buy 1 get 1 free deal) and I gotta say, as annoying as that guy is in all the ads–the stretches are super helpful as someone with super tight hips. None of the stretches are anything I haven’t already done (day 1 was 5-minute pigeon pose on each side and then butterfly), but I guess just having the concept of a challenge and guided videos to go along with it makes it easier to do? Anyone else done it?

Oooof. As someone who gets it 3 times a year and often while training, take it easy and definitely don’t run while you’re feverish. I always find once getting back into running after, drinking some hot tea before going for a run seems to help loosen up any congestion or make it more tolerable at least.

As someone who just lost a parent earlier this month to unhealthy habits after a lot of intervention attempts, thank you for being there for your son and taking it seriously. I hope things stay good for you and you have many many more years with him and your family ❤️

Omg that fluffy belly. And how awesome of your neighbors… it must feel very relieving to establish a good neighborly relationship early on.

Thankful that my 6 year old wanted to do a turkey trot with me again for another year ❤️ He walked a good bit of it but I know where his heart was!

Thankful for being resilient through all of life’s ups and downs and being able to grow and learn through difficult challenges.

Is it cold where you are? I think the refilling bike tires is way worse in late fall and winter.

Also hope your work “very big deal” news is something that’s good for you!

Complaint: I’m a big dumb-dumb. My 6-year-old and I ran a turkey trot last year–he was SO jazzed for getting a medal and they didn’t have medals, so I ordered some online and kept them in my pocket to give him after we went through the finish line, letting him think it was a real official race medal. He decided he wanted to run again this year, so once again I went and got the medals online… I accidentally typed 2024 in the engraving 🙃 I ended up re-ordering them with the correct year… I guess I’m set for 2024 if he wants to run it again though??

Uncomplaint: I took a little social media hiatus after my mom died last week and I feel good for having done it and for getting back into running. My memories of running NYC and her dying are such a mixed blur right now, it’s so weird in a way I don’t even know how to express, but I’m so happy to be running again.

My complaint/uncomplaint is just a roller coaster. Thrilled to have run NYC and my legs feel mostly okay now… then my mom died the day after and since I was still in NY I didn’t get to be there to say bye. I guess my complaint is that I usually run as a form of therapy and I can’t do that right now because of the marathon recovery.

I deliriously took Twizzlers from someone at Chicago last year and it must have done something for me because I occasionally think back fondly on the memory with a sense of nostalgia unparalleled to anything else that happened that day.