{"id":3160,"date":"2014-12-15T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2014-12-15T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:53:25","slug":"choir-cherry-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/choir-cherry-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Choir and Cherry Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"4\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/wl5EPcRwlV\/\" target=\"_top\">Still a little too congested for a run, so trying my new #NewBalance shoes out on a treadmill walk. #cucb2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by elbowglitter (@elbowglitter) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2014-12-14T15:24:29+00:00\">Dec 12, 2014 at 7:24am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was an insanely busy weekend.\u00a0 Three choir concerts for the holidays.\u00a0 Always very rewarding, but also very exhausting.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also got a really annoying cough going on, which meant my planned run turned into a walk this weekend.\u00a0 It&#8217;s better than nothing, but I&#8217;m starting to fear getting back into my training plan.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to hit it hard tomorrow night and go from there.\u00a0 Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Today, announcements started to go out about the Cherry Blossom Ten Miler lottery, so if you&#8217;ve found me via my position as Social Runner for the race, congrats and welcome!<\/p>\n<p>And if you didn&#8217;t get in, don&#8217;t despair!\u00a0 There are still options!\u00a0 Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cherryblossom.org\/making-lemonade-from-lemons\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post <\/a>on the official race blog for tips.\u00a0 You can always sign up as a charity runner or you can hope to get a bib transferred to you when bib transfers open up in February.\u00a0 Another awesome option is to volunteer in 2015.\u00a0 That guarantees you a race entry for 2016, and is a pretty sweet deal.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve talked about <a title=\"Volunteering Rocks\" href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/volunteering-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">volunteering <\/a>before and it&#8217;s really a great time.\u00a0 It means so much to all the runners out there and it&#8217;s also a really great way to get motivated for your next race.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday, everyone.\u00a0 I hope that if you&#8217;re still at work, that it&#8217;s a quiet week.\u00a0 My week, not so much.\u00a0 Within 20 minutes of being at the office, my workload tripled.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s to job security!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still a little too congested for a run, so trying my new #NewBalance shoes out on a treadmill walk. #cucb2015 A photo posted by elbowglitter (@elbowglitter) on Dec 12, 2014 at 7:24am PST This was an insanely busy weekend.\u00a0 Three choir concerts for the holidays.\u00a0 Always very rewarding, but also very exhausting.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[161,49,42],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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