Summertime...

Summer has always been my favourite time of year...strawberries are in season and it's beachtime and nothing beats running in just a sports bra and shorts and cute sundresses and free concerts in NYC parks and biking to work in short skirts and halter tops and Burning Man prep and mojitos and hiking and wearing very little clothes and everyone's in a good mood and super fun races and swimming in creeks and all day runs at Bear Mtn with Iliana and grass and my kickass fire escape garden and walks in the park with Luna...

I guess I have to figure out some races. Some (ahem) believe I race too much, but I don't race that much. I run a lot, but I have key races. I hope to do well at Pineland Farms 50 Miler, and Rio del Lago 100 Miler. There are plenty of races in between, but I'll treat those as training runs. Like Peaks 50 Miler, if I do it...Iliana and I will end up chatting most of the time, catching up.

Last summer was so fun...weekends I spent at the beaches, dancing at sweat-and-glitter covered parties, running long w Iliana, eating watermelon on the sweaty car rides, running on the beach, running home from work, sewing glittery and shimmery costumes with Rachelle, making mojitos with mint from my fire escape garden....

This summer will be better. Trail runs, Bear Mountain, watermelon, beaches, surfing with Cindy-Kim, drinking delicious wine, trying to find stars, prepping for Burning Man (Hello, how do we build a monkey hut?), good friends. I need to learn to not get stressed (like how I started crying at work), to not care if my apt is a little dirty, to combine all sorts of things, to manage my time. Like seeing friends while running 100 kilometers, that sort of thing. Running to the beach and then chilling there after. Doing the bike to the beach/Grandma thing more. Burning Man craft nights with good wine or mojitos and the girls. Writing in cafes with JP. Dancing in various bikinis.

And being in love makes everything even better...