My Mom Is Either Trying To Teach Me Something Or Give Me the Poops

Hello! How are you? I’m good, but might be running to the bathroom in 2 seconds. I’ll explain later. First let’s talk about running and eating!

This morning I was up bright and early to bust out 10 miles. I’m at a weird spot in my training because I feel like a lot of marathon plans are too light on mileage and speed work, but the PR/ fast ones are super HARD! I’ve decided to go with the hard plan and just do my best.

After that I headed to my mom’s work to help her set up her classroom. She’s a teacher. I’m Captain Obvious (it’s an unpaid position).

I put up some bulletin boards and told her about my life and tease her about random stuff. I really try to do my best to fulfill my daughter duties.

Seriously though, my mom’s hair is super thick! What is her secret?! I bet it’s because of all those avocados fresh from the backyard (bee ridden) tree.

I should have noted this little sign for future reference:

She kept working and I jammed out to do some blog work at the house and eat all the food. Moms have the best food. If you invite me over I’ll check out your mom’s fridge and probably think she has the best food too. I like other people’s food.

 

So I got there and immediately threw a popcorn in the microwave while looking for other snacks. I cannot get enough popcorn lately!

While that was poppin’ I grabbed the MASSIVE jar of PB and the bunch of super ripe bananas… I feel like the bananas are getting too ripe so I should just eat all the things!

Challenge Accepted.

By this time the popcorn was done and I grabbed it as I sat down to answer RER emails. It tasted a little weird, but I just figured my tastebuds were used to the SkinnyPop I’ve been eating. So I shoveled in a few more handfulls and thought that maybe this was super stale and that’s why it tasted weird?

Apparently this popcorn …

EXPIRED TWO YEARS AGO.

Ha! I am so busted because I kept eating it for a while before trying to figure out why it tasted ‘off’.

Luckily I had all those bananas to eat while I found another, less expired snack.

Then, my mom came home from work and brought ceviche!!! This is the perfect dinner for hot summer nights.

 

So… now we wait and see if I have stomach problems from the super old popcorn. I think I’m going to be okay because I’ve eaten a lot worse and been fine.  I eat stuff that’s past it’s “Best by” date all the time*.

And that’s why I should have taken the “Life is about learning from your mistakes” sign to heart because I keep doing it. Oh well.

When I got home it was late and I still needed to do YOGA. I am on a mission to stay with it. I really feel so much better after!

But since I was a little stressed I decided to just do the Yoga with Adrienne for bed time. It was perfect for calming down. Ben got here when I was about to start and joined me!

Do Runners Need a Separate Hamper for Running Clothes?

Now let’s talk about the #1 hardest thing for runners to do:

Keep up with all that sweaty laundry

 

I wash my running clothes separately from all my other clothes (read as: the one dress I wore to church this week).

When there are non-running clothes in the hamper OR other people’s clothes in there I don’t put my stuff in it. I just throw my sweaty clothes to the floor on the side of the hamper (because I’m not an animal).

I know ‘some people’ put everything in the hamper and sort it when they are going to wash. But I am not ‘some people’ I am a ‘lazy person’.

So this week I thought of a solution – get a hamper with two sections or get two hampers!! Boom!!

I went to the store to check out my hamper options. I like the idea of a metal hamper because sweaty clothes get the cloth liner sweaty and that’s gross. I want to go with a metal/wire one but my current hamper is wicker. I don’t want to have mismatched hampers so I feel like I should buy two of the same design.

But I remembered that I had heard of this running blog  – “Run Eat um, something I forget” and realized I’m not the first person to have this problem. I’m sure you or one of your fellow readers has a great method for dealing with gross post-run clothing.

Do you use 2 hampers?

Do you just throw it all in one?

Do you toss it on the floor?

Do you not wash it in hopes that dogs will smell you from miles away and leave you alone on your next run??

Is there another top secret option that I don’t know about???

 

I decided not to buy one until I ask you what you do about this. Let me okay!

Also, spotted this and kinda love it.

Question: How do you deal with sweaty post-workout clothes?

*Don’t try this at home.

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