A Runner's Anticipation of Spring

As usual, we are participating in the Friday 5 where the topic is "Spring".  How timely! Here are a few things that have had me anticipating Spring this week.

1. In anticipation of Spring's arrival today, I did a little Spring cleaning yesterday and finally put away everything that had a snowflake on it or anything that resembled winter.

Why did I still have snowflake decorations up you ask? Good question. I guess just laziness. But give me some credit, I don't still have my Christmas decorations up. That is more than I can say for some people. And when I say some people, I mean the two houses I saw yesterday as I drove up north to visit a friend. When I say Christmas decorations, I mean full front yard decorations! It seriously looked like these families could compete on that show "The great Christmas light fight".

2. I totally forgot that Rita's Italian Ice gives out Free Italian Ice on the first day of Spring. I ended up going there after lunch yesterday for my first ice of the season. Had I remembered I would have just waited and gone today.

                                                        This flavor was called Georgia Peach!

3. It's killing me that the weather has been nice and I haven't been out there running.  Yesterday Miss Baylee went with me to run some errands.

I guess I really didn't have a choice because when I came out to the driveway, I saw she was already sitting in the passenger seat in the car.  I actually came out through the garage so I saw her from the front through the windshield and it startled me at first because something was in my car. When I noticed it was her I just started to laugh. She really wanted to go with me so how could I tell her No.  ( I must say that I was loading and unloading things in my car and that is why the car door was left open when I went in the house).

 

Okay, getting back to my point. After the errands we stopped at a track at the hospital since it was on our way.  It is a walking track and it was quite nice. I always see it when I go to my appointments but I never make time to stop and use it.  It felt good getting Baylee out for a walk.  At one point I even started to do a little jog and surprisingly I felt okay.

4. This Keylime Pie Ice Cream from Turkey Hill is by far going to be my favorite snack this spring. It is AMAZING and I should not admit this but it only took me a week to eat the entire container by myself. I had a bowl ( or two) every night! I need to get another container soon seeing that it is only a Season flavor!

 

5. The last thing that has me anticipating Spring is the April Fools race. I know you are thinking WHY IS SHE RACING. But hear me out. I've gone to this race for the past couple of years and I actually got a free entry for this year. I was debating on not even using it but my sister just found out that she has off that weekend.  Since we don't really have to travel for it we decided to just go and hangout at the beach for the weekend.  The race is an easy one along the boardwalk. I did it last year when I was hurting WAY more than I am now so I'm just gonna do a little "hobby jog" and I'll be fine. I'll walk it if I have to. I saw a ton of walkers last year.

 

What has got you excited about Spring this week?