It’s raining here and wow, do I love the sound of the rain on the tin roof. It’s probably one of my favorite sounds. That and a good coffeehouse playlist on Spotify really help get me motivated to get some work done. It’s actually pretty hilarious how little I’ve blogged since starting school and especially since this quarantine. I keep saying that I want to make regular appearances on here again and then….IDK. I find lack of motivation? lack of inspiration? other priorities? All of the above maybe. I started to create a schedule for myself today and honestly I’ve been the most productive today than I’ve been since this whole craziness started. Dare I say that maybe I’ve found my ‘secret sauce’?!? I just ordered my 100 miler sweatshirt and they’re shipping it to me so yay for something to look forward to! The sweatshirts are extra that you can purchase and all the proceeds go towards helping them upgrade their equipment (last year they did hats and ordered an Atrial Defibrillator for the race, which I think is so awesome). I also just forgot how to add photos to my post, so I guess that’s where we are on blogging level again.

I’m starting a ‘mini-taper’ before my ‘Sugarloaf Marathon’ at-home edition. I ran 16 miles yesterday and the middle miles were supposed to be at tempo pace, but they were a bit slower than I would’ve liked. Still happy to be training and giving it my best. Some days just are not great and you just need to accept it and move on.

I guess this is typical attire at work now. Wearing masks for an entire 8.5 hour shift with just 30 minutes to take a break (for meals) is really challenging. I get super hot in them and my face is definitely breaking out all over the place because of them. Such fun times. At least we’re protecting our patients though.

We’ve been baking up a storm over here and these Vegan Brownie cookies (recipe on Pinterest) were AMAZING. Like, devoured in 3 days. Ha.

Saw this playlist and thinking that we will definitely need one of these songs for our Wedding dance- right?

I’m very excited to be back running on our Rail Trail! I ran there last week early and was the only one on it. Can’t wait to take my bike on it again!

I’ve been doing a lot of wine and reading lately. Which I typically never finish a glass of wine (neither does Alex), so really just mainly doing a lot of reading for fun lately. It’s been SO nice!

It’s also been so nice to be getting out more with Alex and just going for walks or hikes or hanging out together more. Anyone else finding that they’re spending more quality time together with their significant other?

9 days left of my Spring Semester and then 3 finals. I cannot believe I’ll be done in AUGUST!

View from this mornings run before the rain came in. It WAS beautiful out. I just love running in 30-degree morning weather- anyone else??

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-Favorite kind of weather to run in?

-What have you been doing with your extra ‘down time’ lately? We’ve been doing a mix of household projects, reading, lounging, and getting some extra sleep

-Are you a ‘schedule’ type of person or not so much?