New Year, New week

Monday holidays are weird, am I right?  We had fun at our little celebration with our friend group Sunday night/Monday morning.   

I got a run in both New Year's eve and New Year's day so I got both Garmin badges #overacheiver. 

 

I don't make resolutions, I make goals.  My two main goals for next year:  Drink more water whatever that looks like and get back to strength training, whatever that looks like.  My co worker had started taking classes at our local gym taught by one of my friends actually and was loving it.  She was trying to go 5 days a week which I can't commit to.  I did think that two days a week was doable though.  We had our first two classes and they both were killer but exactly what I wanted and needed.  I enjoyed both teachers and was equally sore from both.  I loved the combo moves that worked both lower body and upper body and I loved the incorporation of cardio with strength moves.  I don't need cardio but I don't count things like squat jumps and plyometrics as cardio per say.  Plus bonus, Rockin Robin joined the gym so we could both go to class since we both need to do more than just run, AND neither of us have treadmills anymore so we can use the gym's treadmills if it gets icy outside.  

I did get some runs done this week.  I am thinking I will have to shift my runs to Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday or Sunday if I want to run four times a week.  I loved the night classes on Tuesday/Thursday!  I was prepared to have to start getting up at 4:30 am to do the 5:30 class, but this works just as well, as long as we can get done with work on time.  Snow running is fun till it isn't!  I decided my long run would be 7 and I had my hubby drop me off on the gravel to avoid the mess in town. The flat prairie had several inches of snow, and it made running challenging with my dang road shoes.  I honestly didn't think that we got that much snow but we must have.  I fell once completely due to a slick spot and then once partially.  I was trying to keep one foot in the deeper snow and one foot in the slicker snow and my body was not happy with everything being slightly off.  I got it done but i was one tired and sore runner post running JUST 7 miles!

And let's end on this.  Manhattan got another new brewery, this time complete with food.  The location is more on our side of town which is nice and convenient for us.  It was super busy since they just opened and while they told us an hour wait it only took maybe 30 minutes.  They didn't really have a ton of seating and overall the place seems pretty small, but the beers were VERY good.  We all got a big beer and then picked out a flight to share.  My favorites was the dark lager, the pub ale, and the smoked Porter.  The fruity IPA was also very nice for an IPA.  The food was eh.  My pasta was very, very good, Andrew's burger had a weird texture and they put sauce on it even though I told them no sauce, and Tony's grits and shrimp were pretty good.  We kidnapped one of my co workers to come with me and she got some sort of street tacos that she said were decent.  Overall, we will be back for sure and are excited to see the patio open this summer.  

Have a great week y'all!  We may be in for a huge snowstorm or it may do nothing!  Batten down the hatches and hold tight!