The Running Thread - 2018

[LSUlakes]

Its finally Friday and time for our Fun Friday QOTD!!!! With today being the last working for most of us before the holiday, what are your Christmas plans over the weekend and into early next week? Any unique traditions? How do you fit in your runs with so much going on over the next few days?

ATTQOTD: This weekend we are going to my dads. Each year we have a big bonfire, have a gumbo, and pop fireworks. The bonfire is from a tradition from where my dad was raised. They build large bonfires along the levee of the Mississippi River on Christmas eve to light the way for Papa Noel. The bonfires over the years have become very creative and if you have time I recommend googling bonfires along the levee in Louisiana. Monday we're going to Christmas Eve mass and going to my aunts. Early night for use, since Santa is coming (Dad has many things to build this year). Christmas day we are going to stay in our pajamas and have a nice relaxing day at home. Getting in runs are hard to do because everyone wants us the be somewhere for a certain time, but it's my goal to get a decent long run in Saturday morning. My lower back is feeling better these days, but now something higher up is creating a issue and its causing some breathing issues. 35 is hitting hard lol.
Have safe travels everyone and Merry Christmas!

*This post is not meant to offend anyone who does not partake in Christmas. If you celebrate or dont celebrate another holiday during this time of year, let us know. I find other peoples traditions very interesting and would love to hear about yours!

 

[rteetz]

QOTD!!!! With today being the last working for most of us before the holiday, what are your Christmas plans over the weekend and into early next week? Any unique traditions? How do you fit in your runs with so much going on over the next few days?

Nothing really unique for us. We got to my grandparents on Christmas Eve and then we host everyone on Christmas Day. As for running I plan to finish up my last big week of training this weekend and then move into taper.

 

[AFwifelife]

ATTQOTD: my mom and sister are coming up tomorrow and will be here until we go down to the ILs after Christmas. With 4 of us doing marathon weekend, our time will be split between getting all our miles in and eating. Mass on Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner this year will be Honey Baked Ham which I’m a little too excited for. A few days after Christmas we are going down to the ILs in Melbourne for some beach time and will be back on New Year’s Day to watch the UCF game.

 

[Dis_Yoda]

Attqotd:

My husband is working 12 hour days thru Christmas Eve so my weekend will be taking the dog to Rally class, taking myself to see Mary Poppins and probably Mary Queens of Scots and going for a long walk at our Greenway.

Christmas we will go out to lunch at Ocean Prime

His birthday is the 27th so we’ll go to Fleming’s then.

 

[PrincessV]

Its finally Friday and time for our Fun Friday QOTD!!!! With today being the last working for most of us before the holiday, what are your Christmas plans over the weekend and into early next week? Any unique traditions? How do you fit in your runs with so much going on over the next few days?

ATTFFQOTD: We keep Christmas/New Year's Eve/winter school break mellow; always have. No hustling and bustling, visiting, etc., just hanging at home, so fitting runs in is easier than when I'm working. Family all live out of town so we have a tradition of opening gifts received by mail on Xmas Eve, and we always watch Polar Express on Xmas Eve. There are at least 4 movies out my son and I want to see, and I took next week off, so we'll be spending some time at our local theater. Not to mention all things I've added to my Netflix and Prime queues. I'm looking forward to relaxing!

 

[apdebord]

ATTQOTD: I will run my 20 miler Sunday morning. On Christmas Eve DH and I are going to Christmas Town at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Our first Christmas married we decided Christmas Eve would just be us so we’ve kept that up for 9 years now. We will have dinner at a great little Italian place outside the park then come home and watch White Christmas while exchanging gifts. Christmas we go to my parents house for the day; this is DH’s first Christmas off work in a few years so my tradition of doing laundry on Christmas morning has ended. The day after, the rest of my extended family will go to my parents house for dinner and gifts. I’m taking off work through January 2nd so I don’t think fitting in my runs will be an issue.

 

[KSellers88]

ATTQOTD: We have a super small family, so we will do lunch with my in laws and dinner with my family on Christmas Day. We normally play dominoes while watching Christmas Vacation with my family after we eat dinner and open presents, but my mom had surgery last week and we are not sure how much she will be up to doing this year. Once we have children I have lots of ideas for new traditions to start.

Edited because I apparently cannot read: I am not currently training for anything, so I am running what I want when I want. I should actually have more time to run next week though because the only day I actually have to come to the office is Thursday.

 

[Professor_Cookie]

Attqotd: Work, work, work. I’m in the middle of 4 weeks straight. Hopefully not go insane(er). Spend lots of time screaming at tourists. Try and do some speedwork today.

 

[FFigawi]

Its finally Friday and time for our Fun Friday QOTD!!!! With today being the last working for most of us before the holiday, what are your Christmas plans over the weekend and into early next week? Any unique traditions? How do you fit in your runs with so much going on over the next few days?

Getting my runs in next week is going to be tough. I dread the thought of getting up and running after nights of eating and drinking in Vegas. I recently started the Slowtwitch 100/100 challenge (100 runs in 100 days), though, so I've got to find a way to at least get a few in to reduce the number of doubles I'll have to do later on.

 

[JeffW]

ATTQOTD: I'll be counting my distance in vertical feet! Our tradition of heading up to the mountains and skiing Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will continue this year. We always find those days really good for skiing, from a crowds perspective. And this year's early season snow is awesome!

 

[jmasgat]

ATTQOTD: We are fortunate to have both of our kids coming home for Christmas. Now that they are living with their SO's, I make no assumptions. I will spend the time cooking ambitious food items, then feeling exhausted! (Okay, this is maybe half true). The last few years, my daughter and I have waited til the 24th and gone to a local garden shop when all the trees are $5. Last year....sold out! So this year, we will try again, but I will get a tree one way or the other. A Christmas day family trip to the movies is in order (movie TBD--my son has seen everything!)I'll switch my Tuesday hill workout to a different day, but otherwise will still run.

 

[GreatLakes]

Its finally Friday and time for our Fun Friday QOTD!!!! With today being the last working for most of us before the holiday, what are your Christmas plans over the weekend and into early next week? Any unique traditions? How do you fit in your runs with so much going on over the next few days?

I always do a race on Christmas Eve provided I'm not sick. I'm just getting over something and hope it is gone before then so I don't have to miss it. Other than that it is driving around visiting family.

 

[DustyWA]

ATTQOTD: My wife's family has a tradition of KFC at her parents' house on Christmas Eve. I was worried that we'd have to scrap it this year, as I was planning on working Christmas Eve to save vacation time for Marathon Weekend. The president solved that problem by making Monday a holiday for federal employees. We'll probably spend all day on Christmas at home opening presents. Not because we have so many... My kids just don't have much of an attention span and get obsessed with the first gift they open and forget there are more to go. As for the rest of the weekend, we've still got a few holiday dinners with family/friends and possibly the light display at the zoo.

I'll also be trying to figure out how I'm going to fit my runs in over the weekend. I hate going out before sunrise to go running on my days off, but I don't see any way to avoid it!

 

[run.minnie.miles]

ATTQOTD: We are headed to my hometown (5.5 hour drive) this weekend and will stay with my parents through Christmas. I plan to get my big 20 miler in tomorrow morning and then probably won't run again until Wednesday.
We get dressed up and go to mass on Christmas Eve and then my folks host a little cocktail type party after with tons of appetizers. Ever since we were little, my dad would always make Shirley Temples and Roy Rodgers for the kids, which felt so fancy and grown-up at the time. My first drink is still always a Shirley Temple every Christmas Eve.
Later we'll change into our jammies and watch A Christmas Story on loop. We will open gifts on Christmas morning and then have Prime Rib for dinner. I just LOVE Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS & Happy Holidays to all of my running thread friends!! I know as joyous as the holidays can be, they can also be very tough for some. You are not forgotten or alone

 

[jennamfeo]

ATTFFQOTD: I am not a ~family~ person. I got married to create my own family that I like to hang out with. Maybe I got spoiled because the first 3 years of our marriage we were stationed overseas and got to just enjoy our Christmas alone and together. It was all I wanted. Even after that tour we were stationed on the east coast, so no one was going to come see us during the holidays. But then we moved back home and had a kid and people expect you to like go see them. Ugh. It's exhausting. So this weekend we are going to Vegas to spend Christmas with my parents. I took Monday off because my kid is out of school that day so I am going to just enjoy that time doing fun crafts and baking with her. We are going over to a friend's house for dinner that night, which is unusual for us. I am more of an "order Chinese and watch Christmas movies" on the Eve but whatevs. Then Christmas morning we will do the presents thing and I guess go over to my in laws house. Shrug.
In between all that I have some mileage to get done which will be a much needed and deserved break from family drama, so no complaints about running during the holidays from me.

 

[JulieODC]

No major plans - we spend Christmas Eve with my extended fam, and will have a small quiet Christmas Day with our family, my parents, and my grandparents.

I’m planning to work over the holiday due to some major upcoming projects, but am a Fed and am waiting to see if the govt shuts down tonight. Sigh.

 

[camaker]

ATTFQOTD: Nothing really happening over the weekend other than my mother coming up from Charlotte to spend the holiday with us. Christmas Eve is our big celebration now that the girls are older and out of the house. DW will make a lasagna and we'll have my mother, brother and SiL, both daughters and their boyfriends over for dinner and presents. Christmas Day will be very chill with just DW, my mother and myself. DW will make a prime rib for our mini gathering. It makes for a nice quiet day after the chaos that is Christmas Eve.

 

[Kazrak]

QOTD!!!! With today being the last working for most of us before the holiday, what are your Christmas plans over the weekend and into early next week? Any unique traditions? How do you fit in your runs with so much going on over the next few days?

My older son just got home from his first semester at college last night, and his sister got back last week, so we have all of us home for the first time since August. The kids will probably put together a tree this weekend - I'm not sure exactly what started it, but they've made a tree out of K'Nex for several years now.

Christmas eve dinner is Chinese food and pizza, although our usual Chinese restaurant has closed. I'm unsure what my wife is planning - the Chinese food is for her and our daughter, as the boys and I don't especially care for it. (The pizza's for us.)

The stockings will include chocolate, cookies, and spray cheese, a tradition that goes back at least a decade at this point. We don't typically do a Christmas dinner, as there's enough snacky food around that, between that and the pizza/Chinese leftovers, nobody's hungry.

I'm working this week, and on call in case anything breaks. I didn't want to burn even more vacation when I'm taking the first two weeks of January for our tri-annual WDW trip, and as long as I'm around, I can take the on call shift so the rest of my team can enjoy the holidays. It's pretty quiet, typically, as we're in a production freeze starting today.

As for running - my Saturday run will get bumped back to Sunday now that my older son is home, as we go out to breakfast together on Saturday mornings. The usual MWF runs with my younger son should be fine, and then I have a 10k for PoT on the 30th. I'll probably skip the Tuesday morning run.

 

[Keels]

ATTQOTD: I’ve been “Chasing the Bells” all week and have my last lunch today, so that’s five Brennan’s
Jingle Bells for me this year (Commanders, Tableau, Palace Cafe, Mr. B’s Bistro and hopefully Bourbon House today!) and then I’m going to a Reveillon dinner in the Quarter tonight before I head back to Texas on Saturday for a few days. Taking the Littles to see “Mary Poppins Returns” on Christmas Eve so their parents can do last-minute things. And then I’ll probably cook all night. This is my first non-family Christmas in Texas in a while so all my neighborhood friends and their kiddos are planning to come by early evening for a Christmas cocktail dinner.

 

[huskies90]

Fun Friday QOTD!!!! With today being the last working for most of us before the holiday, what are your Christmas plans over the weekend and into early next week? Any unique traditions? How do you fit in your runs with so much going on over the next few days?

ATTQOTD: Nothing special. Kids are home from college. We will see family on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I am off from work so getting my long runs in will be pretty relatively easy.
Happy Holidays Everyone!!