It’s that time of year!! I personally love the holidays. And there are things that I do EVERY year…
On the running front:
- Thanksgiving Turkey Trot – when I am healthy I like to run a 5K. This year, I am running a 10K for the first time.
MaryPat & I usually run it together
- Running through the lights in the park. The lights go on at 5 pm from Nov 20-Jan 1. Cars don’t enter until 6 pm. Perfect place to run for one hour in the evening.
- The Last Run in Albany – a crowded 5k that starts with fireworks and weaves around the park above.
- Running anywhere & anytime during my TWO weeks off from work!!
Non-running activities:
- Thanksgiving – my hubby & I usually go out to a restaurant and then stop by his mother’s after to visit with her & his sons.
outside our favorite restaurant in Lake George
- a trip to NYC – to see the decorations, etc. with friends
- Decorating – since the kids are grown & we don’t entertain much, I have scaled it down – just a small tree and lots of snowmen (love them!)
- December Birthdays – my mentee Amanda’s is Dec 9 and her son is December 14. I have friends with birthdays Dec 10, Dec 12 & Dec 17. There will be a lot of dinners out to celebrate.
Lights in the park for Richard’s
dinner & a movie for Amanda’s
many birthday desserts
- Cookie Swap at work – it’s the only time during the year that I bake cookies.
I try not to eat all of them & give some to my hubby
- annual work party – we used to have a big fancy one with spouses. Now we have a luncheon at work.
- annual dinner with my tennis friends – Chinese auction and sing a-long
- Christmas Day – first with my mentee & her sons and then to my hubby’s mother to see her & my stepsons.
- a trip to the NYC Boat Show – my hubby loves to look at boats & I love the city.
- New Year’s – we usually do something with our Lake George friends.
Happy Running! What are some of your holiday traditions?
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You have a lot of fun traditions! Envious you’re so close to NYC. Holiday time there is the best!
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yes, love that it’s a train or bus ride away.
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We don’t really have many traditions. We do light the menorah; sometimes we have latkes, sometimes not. We used to go to the movies on Christmas Day – growing up that was going into NYC to see a show – but now that everyone seems to go my husband doesn’t want to do that anymore.
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Oops. I completely forgot my Jewish upbringing. Yes, I light the menorah every night. We used to go to the movies on Christmas Day growing up on LI.
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