Tuesday Tangents!

That’s so exciting about the piano! I only play ukulele (throwback to my story time days as a librarian), but my husband plays piano, electric and acoustic guitar, and electric and acoustic bass. Never tried the Core Power drinks but I Orgain plant based shakes; I throw in a shot of strong coffee and it’s the perfect pick up/breakfast after a workout. Happy Tuesday Janae!

Ha ha–we all have our favorite splurges :)
I live close to a hiking/biking asphalt trail that goes about 19 miles between my city and Washington, DC. It’s very popular for group training runs since there are a few spots along the way that are close to Metro stops if you want a point-to-point route. Many points feel remote, so it’s definitely not a solo venture, but it’s beautiful; it even goes past the National Zoo and historic landmarks. I also live near the C&O Canal, which is 184 miles of natural surfaces, some dirt, some gravel, along the Potomac River. I’ve done some running there solo, but mostly with a buddy. Love it!
I played piano, but we don’t have space for it to be set up all the time :(
My chocolate peanut butter Think! bars are a breakfast staple, so…chocolate daily.

I play the piano, am the organist for my church, and will be marching with the Brass (all-brass marching band) playing my trombone at my old high school on Friday for the Homecoming game…class of 99 woo hoo! :D I hope your kids enjoy their piano lessons – unfortunately my girls did not take to it as well as I did. My youngest no longer takes lessons, but my 15 year old is trying to stick with it. Tangent – I just read a really interesting article about how when you are busy & stressed “quiet quitting” might not be the way to go…but adding in more things you find enjoyable can help. Ex: signing up for a group/class you enjoy, so you have it on the calendar and can’t say you are too busy to go. The article said the people who did that actually reported feeling like they had more time, even though they didn’t. Just interesting food for thought about the work/life balance struggle.

I grew up playing the piano, flute, and piccolo. I just recently donated both my flute and piccolo to the middle school with hopes someone who wanted to play but couldn’t afford an instrument will be able to take advantage. I can maybe play twinkle twinkle little star on the piano now and that’s about it, ha!

Side note – I’m slowly starting to run again after my pelvic stress fracture! I also deferred my marathon at the end of October and I feel a lot better without that added stress. Running is a stress relief, but stressing about not being able to run was a vicious cycle! So I am going to live vicariously through your marathon!

Have a great day!

I have those Next%! Love the colors of them and they make me think I look super fast. Ha! Also, as an FYI on the Alphafly…the Alphafly 2 recently came out and they changed the heel drop to 8 mm. :) May make you like those even more than the original Alphafly!!

I went to the Nike factory store over the weekend and they had the pretty purple Alphafly on sale for 99.99. I couldn’t even believe it! So I bought both pairs in my size. And a pair of Next% that were also on sale for 99.99. I have a shoe problem!

I’m jealous of the trails you get to run. I don’t have any trails where I live and it makes me so sad. I grew up running cross country and having the best trails nearby and I really miss them.
Have a great day, Janae!

Andrew’s skeleton obsession is my favorite thing today, but I also love that you eat chocolate every day. That’s so awesome that you got a piano! I have a piano, but I secretly also want the one at my parent’s house that I grew up learning to play. I’ve seen someone who had an old piano completely refurbished and painted this amazing yellow color. It sounds weird (and maybe sad?) to paint a piano yellow, but it was beautiful! There’s my tangent for you, haha. Also, not a Nike shoe person at all, but those are beautiful!