It’s time for another Wednesday Word linkup with Debbie! Today’s word is deprivation.
Merriam-Webster has the following to say about deprivation:
the state of being deprived
an act or instance of depriving
And since that’s not very helpful, here’s what they say about deprive:
obsolete: remove
to take something away from
to remove from office
With those definitions in mind, I thought of a quote that was adapted from a Dean Karnazes quote. I liked it so much that I made it into one of those motivational posters.
When you surround yourself with people who encourage you and push you, the line between the possible and the impossible gets blurred. If you want to achieve something, don’t deprive yourself. Chase your dreams, no matter how crazy they are, and you can accomplish some remarkable things.
What do you do to make sure you’re not depriving yourself?
I’m linking up today with HoHo Runs and MissSippiPiddlin’ for their weekly wrap linkup, to recap last week’s workouts!
Monday- Rest.
Tuesday- 3 mile run in the evening after work. It was a perfect fall evening, and I couldn’t help but push it towards the end, which was fun! After taking it easy for a couple of weeks, my Achilles tendon is finally feeling back to normal after getting aggravated at the Virginia 10 Miler.
Wednesday- Cross training. I did a little bit of core stuff, and I also spent three hours cleaning the old sealant off of the flashing/metal edge seals for our camper repair. I’m counting it towards my workout since my arms were sore the next day!
Thursday- 3 mile easy run on “Sven” (my nickname for my treadmill 🙂 ). I rocked out to some music. Hank was sitting in the basement just staring at me, so I started doing little dance moves with my arms and singing to him a bit. This is the reaction I got:
Friday- Rest. Loaded up the camper and headed down to the campground in Fries for Saturday’s race.
Saturday- New River Trail 25K. I had a pretty good race, and ran a PR for the distance (although the previous 25K’s I have run involved a couple of mountains). I don’t feel like I ran my best race, but I felt good, the weather was good, and the scenery was beautiful. Full race recap coming either later this week or next week, whenever I find time to write it!
Sunday- Rest. Traveled home from Fries and then spent about an hour unloading the camper.
Do you run/workout with music? Do you ever go camping? Who else raced this past weekend? How did it go?
Very confused on what day it is. I was off work last Friday and Monday was a holiday. I’m definitely not complaining about the time away from work, but it really throws me off!
Enjoying this gorgeous fall weather. The leaves are changing and they’re almost at their peak, and it’s the perfect temperature for running! I need to get out on the trails and take it all in.
Still upholding my New Years resolution of flossing every day. I’m proud of that, since the year is over halfway through. Having a first ever cavity-turned first ever root canal is pretty good incentive!
Missing Annabelle, but also glad that she no longer resides in our backyard. Wednesday night and Thursday morning a bull decided to hang out right at our fence. If she had still been in our backyard, we probably would have had a bull in our backyard, too!
No longer in need of an inhaler! I had to start using one after a string of respiratory infections last winter. Luckily, I started needing it less and less as the summer went on and have not needed it at all recently.
Excited to head down to Fries, VA today for a weekend camping trip. A few days ago I didn’t know if we were going to be able to go, because we discovered a massive leak in our camper (after two weeks of heavy rain) and had to replace the entire frame of the front/bedroom area.
We are heading down there today will be running the New River Trail 25K tomorrow!
What do you currently have going on?
Who else is racing this weekend?
Do holidays throw you off?
I’m linking up today with Debbie over at DebRuns for her Wednesday Word weekly link up. Today’s word is adjust.
The definition of adjust, to change something in a minor way so that it works better, reminded me of this thing that happened recently. For once, I’m not going to talk about running. I’m going to share a story about something completely random, but something that most people can probably relate to.
I’m sure you’ve heard the term ‘brain fart’ where you’re trying to remember something very obvious that you should know, but it just won’t come to you. Well I had a major one of those not too long ago. I was looking at a recipe for country beef vegetable soup, and the first thing on the ingredients list was “3 cups of vegetable juice.” Makes sense for a vegetable soup recipe, right? But I sat there staring at that first item wondering what the heck that was and where I could find it. Did I need to literally juice a bunch of vegetables? Did I need to save the “juice” from canned vegetables? Honestly, I was completely stumped. Almost to the point of putting the recipe aside.
I continued to read through the rest of the recipe, and there weren’t any other ingredients that stumped me, so I returned to that first one. Seriously, what the heck did they mean by vegetable juice??? Maybe I could just adjust it and put something else in, instead.
I have a habit of catching on to TV shows late in the game. Usually, by the time I decide to start watching a show, it’s either several seasons in or it’s about to air its season finale.
In college, I did this with Lost (which follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious island). Barry and I started watching it while the last season was airing on TV. This was before Netflix and Hulu were popular, so ABC had all of the episodes from all of the seasons online. We would spend entire days binge watching this show. It also had the most disappointing series finale of any TV show I’ve ever watched. But that’s another post for another time (or never).
Last fall, it was The Walking Dead (about people surviving the zombie apocalypse). This show, at least, is still on. Before the start of season five, AMC aired the entire series up through season four. Barry and I recorded all of them and are now caught up with the show. The only problem with binge watching this one is that it gave us both funny dreams. Good thing we’re caught up with it, now, and only watch it one episode per week when it’s on.
And my newest obsession: Mad Men (a period drama about an advertising executive on Madison Ave. in NYC). This one takes the cake, as I managed to ignore the show’s existence until the week the series finale was going to air. Strangely enough, I didn’t know the series finale was airing in a week when I randomly decided to do a search on TV to see if there were any episodes I could record. As luck would have it, they were airing the entire series leading up to the series finale. Now we have 90 episodes of Mad Men on the DVR that we are slowly working through.
The show is really entertaining, but I live for the one liners. Being set in the 1960’s, a lot of them are demeaning towards women (i.e. The typewriter was built by a man, but don’t worry they made it easy enough for a woman to use; The women are brainstorming…. awww, I love it when they do that). This may anger some people, but I just take it lightly. It’s the way things used to be, there’s no changing that, and it makes for a funny aspect to the show.
Since we’re talking about TV, I also wanted to mention how much fun it was watching the FIFA Women’s World Cup in June and July. It was really exciting and even though I know it’s not possible, I wish it was going on all of the time. At least the World Cup was immediately followed by the Gold Cup!
Now I am really excited for the Summer Olympics in Rio next year!
Do you have the same habits as me with TV shows?
Do you watch any of these shows?
Who else is excited for the Olympics next summer?
"I've opted for fun in this lifetime." -Jerry Garcia
