Follow Runs for Cookies, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/runs-for-cookies Sat, 23 Oct 2021 04:08:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh8OuuBta43l0ZPHFZJLI3I I almost always write my blog posts in the evenings, but I'd really like to start writing them earlier. Yesterday, I finished it in the afternoon and then in the evening, I was free to go out to the garage and work on the door jamb nightmare and another project. I used to love spending time out there in the evenings, when it was dark outside.My blog posts take more time than you might expect; I]]> Sat, 23 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh8OuuBta43l0ZPHFZJLI3I https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOifFevQd01CkwO5yOwvVe_2 This is going to be a super short post, because of the simple fact that I actually have no recap--because I didn't run this week!For the past three days, I was stressing myself out about "Holy crap, I have to hurry up and somehow get three runs in before Thursday so that I can post about my running or it's going to look like I'm lazy and full of excuses!"Then yesterday, I decided that you know]]> Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOifFevQd01CkwO5yOwvVe_2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgxiYGtHHPVXwVLTsI7B9NX I'm so happy that those pants in the above photo fit me! They don't look like anything special, I know. But I've had them for a long time because I love them so much. They're kind of silky feeling and they don't get any wrinkles, no matter how sloppily I fold them. And they don't pill on the inner thigh area! (The pilling and/or wearing out on the inner thigh is what usually causes me to replace]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgxiYGtHHPVXwVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOiw_S4CUc3BTBeIF_fEM9tn Happy Transformation Tuesday! I feel like I have a ton of "before" pictures on my phone from this week because I've been working on a lot of things, but I don't have any "after" photos yet. Nothing seems to be going right for me! The most frustrating has been the exterior door on the side of our house. What started out as a tiny 1/8 of an inch tweak has turned into a big nightmare. Hopefully,]]> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOiw_S4CUc3BTBeIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOguAohC9tCquqJCIqJppjfU What is it about driving that is so exhausting?! This morning, I drove to the opposite side of Michigan to visit my friend Emily. It's a little over a three-hour drive (each way), which I wasn't looking forward to, but she's come out here to visit several times and it was long overdue for me to go there. Besides, I hadn't seen her in about a year and a half--so it was great to catch up and to see]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOguAohC9tCquqJCIqJppjfU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjNYKelf4YfITHgrmwRGUK6 This post is a copy of what I've attached to the (printable) running plan as well, so it may sound a bit formal. But I've put SO much work into this plan and I hope that it works out well!Here you can download and/or print the plan (which includes all of what is written below).I want to start by stating that this is a trial plan—it hasn’t been tested and I wrote it based on my own knowledge as an]]> Mon, 18 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjNYKelf4YfITHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjErHakU865kv9M7fKGWt0o My mood is still in a weird funk and I really just want to bury my head in the sand for a little bit and pretend life is just at a standstill. I feel very overwhelmed for some reason; I have a lot to get done, but not much more than usual, so I'm not sure why I feel this way.I'm starting to think that I'm experiencing a "mixed episode" of bipolar, which is something that never really made sense]]> Sun, 17 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjErHakU865kv9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgO0BHtKgYmD58v71dCn6bG Ahh, Friday night. Usually, Friday nights are my favorite time of the week! Today, though, I'm just not feeling it. I've been feeling off for a couple of days now. I really hope that this isn't an episode of depression coming on (in the past--before medication--I would almost always cycle between hypomania and depression without a break in between).I think I might just be hyperaware of my mood]]> Sat, 16 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgO0BHtKgYmD58v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgGo_WIth4pBGFk24e89-qg I've been working so hard to get the post with the training plan done--my version of MAF and 80/20 combined, which I've now aptly named MAF80--so clever, I know. I thought I'd have it done to post tonight, but it's 9:00 PM and I still haven't eaten dinner and I'm definitely not going to get this done in time. Especially when I'm starving.So, I just have to post this as a filler and I'll work on]]> Fri, 15 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgGo_WIth4pBGFk24e89-qg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOisteDp4sGBf9KEpFgimKzx No, I did not wear this in public yesterday, haha. I went to Eli's soccer game and I was FREEZING so I wore these tights and top underneath my jeans and hoodie. (These are the black cat tights that Jerry bought me in October of last year.) I only took this selfie for today because I thought it was significant that I was actually able to wear them underneath my jeans.I wasn't able to even fit into]]> Thu, 14 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOisteDp4sGBf9KEpFgimKzx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhMAtiMYOBJdOifqJurszLU Yikes--it's Tuesday already! I've been dreading my weigh-in tomorrow (it's not going to be good) but I'll write about that tomorrow. Today, let's talk about transformations...!First, I'll share one of my own that I've been working on all week. I've written a couple of times about the dining table and chairs I bought via Facebook Marketplace--6 chairs and a table with a leaf, all made of solid]]> Wed, 13 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhMAtiMYOBJdOifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOiBxYH73bY5iyxhxzpi7FpJ I just got back from an evening run, and I just have to write this down so I remember it: the circumstances in THIS RUN are exactly the reason I fell in love with MAF training back in 2015.I'm going to back up and bit and just explain what MAF is and its significance to me (as well as to my running coach style). If you've been reading my blog for a long time, then you can skip over all this...MAF]]> Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOiBxYH73bY5iyxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOieAVkdeVrbsSRFMxTa8z4W I just wasted a WHOLE lot of time prepping a post called, "Things That Make Me Laugh"--which was full of my most favorite memes. I have a folder on Pinterest called "Things That Make Me Laugh" and whenever something makes me legit laugh out loud, I add it to the folder. So I was going through that for a couple of hours picking out my favorites.And then before I started adding them to this post, I]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOieAVkdeVrbsSRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOj8DZq_wcd7_mFk24e89-qg I was going to take a "mental health day" from blogging today; my anxiety has been really bad ever since I started feeling the onset of a hypomanic episode, and today I just wanted to work on a project with all of my focus so I don't think about anything else. But that is classic hypomanic behavior..."Hey I'm just gonna stay up until 4 AM so I can fine-tune this miter saw until the 90 degree]]> Sun, 10 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOj8DZq_wcd7_mFk24e89-qg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhKNXORGlPRoOQEmsPXZ5C9 It's been feeling like it should be Friday night for the last four days, haha. I'm so glad it's finally Friday! Here are some pics from my camera roll this week...I made some homemade granola and I've been eating an old favorite snack--an apple, spread with Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter (it's got to be that peanut butter for some reason!), and then pressed into the granola. So good! I got to]]> Sat, 09 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhKNXORGlPRoOQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjAZUo1Sv3h-zHgrmwRGUK6 I've never had to wait this long for test results to show up on my online chart! (Remember back in the day when you couldn't see your results until you went to a follow-up appointment?) My sacroiliac joint is still extremely painful. I did see the results of my lumbar spine (low back) and my cervical spine (neck) x-rays. I'm still waiting on thoracic.I don't want to spell it all out here until]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjAZUo1Sv3h-zHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhngj247e6brGsGk81fO-bN Man, I'm exhausted. Today was a busy day!This morning, I dropped Eli off at school and went straight to my mom's to help her with something. She bought a very large decal for her dining room wall (it's a quote or a bible verse--I forget what it says) and she wanted help applying it. Well, that was much harder than I thought it would be!I had no problem mapping out where it would go and getting it]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhngj247e6brGsGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjnj1bLLl1PLdaXKMm36c-X Happy Transformation Tuesday!Like I mentioned a few days ago, I've had a crazy week and a lot of it involved working on stuff in the garage... which subsequently left my garage a huge mess. Yesterday, I spent a few hours cleaning it up. It's definitely not perfect--I still have to come up with a storage solution for scrap wood--but it looks a millions times better. And I can actually walk around]]> Wed, 06 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjnj1bLLl1PLdaXKMm36c-X https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOioQ9hgkB3dtd3hDS9njgCr I have about 45 minutes to write a post before I have to jump in the shower. I haven't dyed my hair in about three months and the grays make me cringe every time I look in the mirror--so I finally decided to just quit procrastinating and do it. (I'm sitting here with dye in my hair and figured I'd write a blog post while I wait.)I had the idea to do a "would you rather...?" post (responding to]]> Tue, 05 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOioQ9hgkB3dtd3hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjcNdsHbWNRlRtLdxSOwF-n This post may come off as whiny, but I'm writing it with tongue-in-cheek. Writing all of this out leads me to believe I may be on the verge of a hypomanic episode. (This is also VERY long, by the way!)I had a disaster of a week, and it's still going on. I'm not even referring to my diet/exercise, which have been right on point since my last post about it. I'm referring to the chain of events that]]> Mon, 04 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjcNdsHbWNRlRtLdxSOwF-n