The title is a little bit of a misnomer, I don’t know that I’d call what’s been going on this summer a “vacation,” but I sure took one monster of a vacation from blogging. It started innocently enough, we moved two weeks after we got back from Austria so we had a TON to do, then the next two weeks were spent getting settled back in Virginia. I planned on getting back to blogging once things had quieted down, but what you don’t all know (unless you’ve seen me mention it on instagram or twitter!) is that I sustained one giant pain-in-the-butt of an injury that just won’t leave me alone. My motivation to post on my running blog while injured was pretty much zero, so I let it go while I focused on all the work I’ve been doing since we moved back. It’s been so good for me, and maybe it’s even been good for me that I couldn’t run. I have gotten so much work done and been so insanely productive, so while it has been frustrating to heal slowly, I also didn’t miss running as much as I normally would. And I’ve even been weightlifting a decent amount recently, which is pretty much a sentence I never thought I’d say. I usually avoid strength training like the plague but I’ve been enjoying it, if only because it’s the only place I’m seeing measurable progress 😉 I’ll go into a little more detail on the injury later this week but I am running again and excited for all the cool weather miles coming my way.
So, since you all don’t want to hear about work or non-running, I’ll do a little recap of some of the stuff I was up to this summer.
Spent several days at the adorable ice cream stand near my house where you can play games under the umbrellas while you eat homemade ice cream. SO GOOD. This was Joe’s birthday, with salted caramel flavored ice cream on his sundae. I had a Kahlua milkshake, which I still remember vividly because it was SO DARN GOOD. There was a lot of ice cream eating this summer.
Went to a brunch with this girl that was a little about the delicious and a lot about the unlimited booze. We made friends with our waiter and he brought us shots, which leads to wandering around the museum afterward like this:
She’s too much fun for her own good.
And Joe and I had quite the awesome day at a baseball game! Another sentence that isn’t something I thought I’d say…I’m definitely a football girl, baseball usually bores me to death. But baseball is significantly more fun when you’re three rows behind home plate and there’s unlimited food and beer!
And that’s us on tv! I’m noticing a theme with my highlights…unlimited food=fun.
Just a few of my highlights but I’m so happy that it’s finally fall and I’m excited to be blogging again 🙂
Tell me some of your favorites from this summer!
What’s your number one favorite thing about fall? (Mine is football, but a very close second is the gorgeous weather!)
Run For The Pizza 