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The Stand Outs, The Greats, and The Skips of 2018 - all in no particular order:
The Stand Outs:
Tell The Wolves I’m Home
Bad Blood
An American Marriage
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
Tiny Beautiful Things
Circe
Rage Becomes Her
The Greats:
Every Heart a Doorwary
You Think It, I’ll Say It
Station Eleven
Make Your Home Among Strangers
The Hate U Give
The Skips:
Room
Artemis (BUT SERIOUSLY)
In the House in the Dark of the Woods (SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY)
And 2018 comes to a close!
I really fell off this corner of the internet this year, but I guess that’s what happens when you start jobs that actually require your attention 40 hours a week? Still, I have always used this space as a way to remember the big and small happenings of life and hope to be better at keeping it that way moving forward.
2018 was good.
Started a new job (which is basically my brand at this point?)
Spent so much phenomenal time with my favorite people on Earth: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Ran some races + found a new half marathon PR
Onboarded + offboarded the sweetest group of summer interns and found a company with people who make me laugh daily
Saw Taylor Swift in NASHVILLE with my sweet sister
Upped my Pure Barre teaching game
Read, read, read, read, read, read
Finished 60 books which caused me to up my goal to 75 for 2019... which is ambitious.
Most importantly I found the strength to walk away from love that was safe and good in the event that there is love to come that is powerful and transformative. My hope for myself in 2019 is that I do more of finding that love inside and less looking for it in other people and things. My hope is that I see some new places in the world and learn some new things about myself and everyone around me. That’s my hope for you as well.
Happy New Year.
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The Spare Change Chronicles - Durham Rich Edition
The Spare Change Chronicles - Everywhere + Everything Edition
y’all - this new Pure Barre class is no joke. Reform is a total game changer and I am super looking forward to my body + my teaching game getting so much stronger.
I had 6 career fairs last week and needless to say I was EXHAUSTED by the end of it. I got home on Friday night ready to hibernate all weekend and ready to sleep in until at least 10 on Saturday - hah! - even though I am never able to sleep that late. I ended up waking up at my normal time of around 7 and was decently awake so decided to try and knock out my long run that morning instead. I was only supposed to do 8 so planned to hit up both the tempo + distance class at Tread Happy; I knew that even though I felt awake I still wasn’t making it through this run without someone telling me what to do!
It surprisingly felt super good. I hit 8 miles halfway through the distance class and decided to just slow it down and keep moving through class. I ended up at 10 miles which was surprising but also powerful. I’m sure the insane amount of pizza I had + hours spent sleeping on the couch Friday night had something to do with it.
Derailed a little bit from half marathon training. Over the past few years I’ve found it harder and harder to focus solely on running. It is still my number one mental escape but I’ve loved the strength and toning that comes from Pure Barre and it helps my running so much that I can actually run less and run faster. Want to make sure I don’t get injured though so trying to recommit to this training plan one more time!
The Spare Change Chronicles - Here and there Edition.
Okay, here’s the part where I admit something super terrible about myself... but I generally think any race less than 10 miles is a waste of my time + money.
How rotten is that?
I think I’ve just gotten so used to running 3 - 6 miles in my regular life that I forget how special all race days are and how TOUGH these races can be - I mean, what a time to push! I don’t know that I ever held 4 miles at 7:22 before; I was planning to take it easy (8:30 - 9) but I got excited as usual. After that my goal was 7:30 and totally knocked that out of the water. Fun day with my tread team!
Half marathon training continues on with week 2 in the books!
The Spare Change Chronicles - 3 Miles + 10 Cents Edition
I am a week and a half into half marathon training! My heart said fall marathon but my head said “remember runners knee?” so I am trying to be smart about training. My plan is to run 2 fall half marathons and hopefully (!!) run a spring marathon - maybe Tobacco Road in Durham?
Will anyone be running the Richmond Marathon/Half (November) and or the Bull City Race Fest (October)?
Whirlwind sister trip to Nashville and back to see Queen Taylor! I knew this show would be special and I wasn’t disappointed. Totally worth the lack of sleep and surplus of driving hours! 🐍😉💗
The Spare Change Chronicles - Rain, Sister, Work Edition
The Spare Change Chronicles - Getting Paid Overtime Edition
Making a little bit of an ambitious decision to jump into marathon training around week 4. I’m trying to follow Hal Higdon’s Novice 2 plan, but may drop to Novice 1.
So fun to run with my friend (and fellow TreadHappy coach!) Kalene but 11 miles was ROUGH today. It’s been a while since I’ve covered that distance and we got a late start this morning, around 9:30AM. It was like 84 degrees with 74% humidity so extremely hot and it is Charlottesville so it was extremely hilly. Got to right about 7 miles before we both needed to stop for a little. After that it was kind of downhill for me, got another 1.5 miles in without stopping and then needed to take a run/walk interval approach until the final mile where we made it happen.
We went sloooow. Even at our fastest we were clocking in around 9:30 min/miles and it was still one of the most challenging runs I can remember. Good reminder that running will always humble you, no matter how strong you are and how fast you can go. Your body will always tell you what it needs.
Pumping out some intervals this morning! For the past week I’ve been going back and forth about running a fall marathon. I ran my first marathon back in April of 2014 and it was... subpar. Went out too fast and ran the first 13 at half marathon pace which meant I totally floundered at the end.
It has taken me a long time to even consider the possibility of a 2nd marathon. Training for the full was an incredible growth opportunity but it was also incredibly disruptive to my life? For a long time all I did was run and then I got hurt a few times, most recently for almost a year with runners knee, and I grew to love so many different types of exercise. I want to do everything that I love that it almost feels hard to commit so much time to running? But it finally feels like time to have a goal and a plan. Finally time for a fall marathon, I think.
Last week I traveled down to our Durham office to do a ropes course + exit interviews with the interns and made a weekend out of it! I guest taught at my old studio (hi PB Durham/Chapel Hill) and then went to Charlotte to see my family! My parents are still living the life in Charlotte + my brother is too - finishing up his Masters degree at UNCC. My sister was in town from NYC and being with everyone was exactly what I needed to wrap up a crazy few weeks that are just getting crazier. No matter what, I will always feel most myself around my brother and sister.
A Brief Overview of 7 Months (cont.):
We ran and ran and ran. Almost back to my pre-injury speeds but running grateful every single time. I spent almost every morning of our Topsail trip waking up around 6:45am and hitting up a 3-4 mile beach run while Bryce fished and it was quite literally perfect every time, even when I felt like I was running through a heavy wall of thick air. Heh.
I spent a few days in New Orleans for the NACE conference which was great! The conference left a little bit to be desired but what a cool location; we were walking distance from a lot of the fun touristy things and got to see a lot of great live music and drink some good drinks while walking along the street. A few of my former colleagues from UVA + Red Ventures were there which made for a fun reunion week.
On Memorial Day weekend everyone was out of town so I took a day trip to Williamsburg which was nice. Had some good food on my own and read and stumbled upon a lot of neat happenings. 10/10 would recommend solo travel dates with yourself.
In April I saw Elyse Kopecky talk at a Women, Wine, and Wellness event which was so fabulous. It was right downtown where I work so I just skipped out of the office for some free food (all recipes from her cookbook with Shalane Flanagan!) and wine and got to hear a great story about her journey.
In March we had our first wedding of the year with 2 more to come in the next 2 weeks!
We golfed, we read, we camped out in Louisa - me on the porch swing with a book and Bryce on the lawn mower.
IT SNOWED in... February? I think? A good snow that had everyone working from home in pajamas and sipping warm coffee.
From snow to soft serve. A perfect summer night after our vacation (sob) eating pizza and stumbling upon a local concert!
Plus a million moments not pictured here. Consider this internet space living once again!
A Brief Overview of 7 Months:
3 months into my time at UVA I was approached by another Charlottesville company asking if I wanted to manage their campus recruiting program. Of course, right? After a lot of hemming + hawing I eventually decided to go through the interview process and made the switch in January of this year. I’ve made a lot of horizontal moves in my career, but this was a jump, y’all. Having the chance to direct an entire campus program (including a summer internship program) was incredibly compelling to me and financially it made so much sense. So, here we are!
Continuing to love all things Pure Barre. The team in Charlottesville is strong and we’ve celebrated babies + engagements and studio birthdays together. A few weeks ago we went stand up paddleboarding which was a perfect way to spend a summer Wednesday night.
Apparently teaching at one studio wasn’t enough, so a few weeks ago I started coaching at TreadHappy which is an indoor treadmill studio in CVL, RVA, and coming soon to CLT! It’s a fun studio - lots of opportunity to grow as an instructor through a more freeform workout. The signature class is TreadTempo which is 45 minutes on the tread running through intervals, incline work, speed work, push paces, + all out speeds. It’s super fun! We do a lot of outdoor runs and race training programs too so lots to be involved with.
We celebrated birthdays!! Bryce turned 30 and I turned 28 back in May. My birthday was the second start date for our summer interns so needless to say my day was very busy but so very fun.
Speaking of summer interns!! I can’t believe they are basically almost done? Time flies. We had 32 college students intern with us across our Charlottesville + Durham offices in a variety of roles including software engineering, product design, QA, security, and more. I was so nervous for them to start but they’ve all done an incredible job over the course of the summer and I’ll be so sad when the first group leaves this coming Friday. Last week the CVL interns went out on a hike to Humpback Rocks (which was incredible if you’re in the area!) and the Durham interns went to TreeRunner Ropes Course which was so fun. They are all so smart and funny and I felt lucky to be able to spend time with them outside of the office.
Summer vacations have been good as usual. We took our annual trip to Topsail Island a few weeks ago (sob, already over) and before that I did a whirlwind trip to NJ + my grandma’s beach house to see my parents and sister. That was quick but so perfect to see everyone and my grandma was so surprised! Worth every cent I paid in tolls... lord.
More to come!