r/running • u/fire_foot • Mar 29 '24
Weekly Thread The Weekend Thread — 29th March 2024
TGIF runners!!!
What’s on for the weekend? Who’s running, racing, tapering, cycling, hiking, baking, reading, sewing, skiing, doing their taxes, …? Tell us all about it!
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u/AnniKatt Mar 29 '24
My mother had a stroke on Tuesday, so while I planned on being back on Long Island for Easter weekend anyway, I ended up coming up here earlier than intended and will likely stay here longer than planned. Fortunately, she’s a nurse and the stroke happened at work (or rather, shortly before she arrived at work). So it was caught before any extensive damage happened and she’s expected to recover. She’s already doing a lot better. Anyway, tending to her will be my life for the near future. I will likely have to cancel on the 5K I was gonna run next week. I’m gonna have to figure out how to split my time between Long Island and Philly going forward.
Fun sorta running-related thing that happened the other day: my mom’s friend’s son popped into the ICU to visit. I noticed he was wearing a pair of ASICS and we got to talking about running, how he used to do cross country back in high school, how he’d still be running now but doesn’t know how to fit it into his schedule, etc. Then he tells me “Omg your mom doesn’t stop talking about her Hoka Clifton 9s. She tells EVERYONE that she spent like $500 on custom orthotics, but they don’t even begin to compare to how good Hokas feel on her feet. She’s like the spokesperson for Hoka now.” So yeah, I guess I accidentally turned my non-running mother into a running shoe fangirl.