I have long believed June 5 was the greatest day of all. Forget Christmas. Forget Valentine’s. June 5 is all about me. One hundred per cent me. And well, I kind of love me š so obviously I love this day and I always will regardless of the new age that approaches.
Thirty five for those keeping track!
But the thing is, this year I had to share my birthday with another super special day: National Running Day. (Held on the first Wednesday of June.) I’m no stranger to sharing my birthday; with my brothers’ birthdays 3 and 10 days apart from mine, we’ve shared our celebrations for as long as I can remember, and I’ve always loved it that way. And so, when I discovered National Running Day would this year land on my birthday, I didn’t cry about it, I didn’t gripe about it, I didn’t shun it. Quite the opposite. I lovingly embraced it.
BIRTHDAY RUN:
- 5 a.m. BG before: 6.9
- Temp. basal: none
- Carbs: granola bar (18 grams) no bolus
- Distance: 5 km
- Time: 29:01
- Average pace: 5:44 min/km
- 5:50 a.m. BG after: 10.2
- Temp. basal: +50 per cent
Guess who got a new PRETTY Garmin for her birthday!!!
Today was a near perfect day. There was running. There was strength training, including gruelling sets of 35 pushups (instead of birthday bumps :D). There was free Starbucks. There was walking and laughing and loving with my boys. And yep, there was DQ ice cream cake too… a 25-year tradition started after I was diagnosed with diabetes; one of the only good things to come of this disease!
Are you an embracer or an avoider of birthdays?
I EMBRACE my birthdays!! I,like you enjoy every birthday!! Never have I hidden under my sheets, closed the world out,nor have I cried at the fact I’m getting older. And it’s a total ME day when every other day of the year is about everyone this is my guilt free me day. So enjoy and embrace them.
I love it so much I have a “birthday week”, you are so lucky to have yours on national running day, how cool!!!
Oh I’m a complete AVOIDER of my birthdays.
I stay away from facebook and email and do everything in my power so that nobody knows when my birthday is. I’m not a celebrator. I’d rather it come and go without notice actually.
I don’t know why.. never used to be that way, it’s just been within the past 5 years.
However, I LOOOOVE celebrating other people’s bdays!
SO HAPPY BDAY!
Happy Birthday… that cake looks delicious! I want to celebrate the fact that I’ve made it another year with diabetes. That’s all the reason I need.
What a great day to have your birthday on! I hope it was great!
Happy belated b-day! Sounds like it was an awesome day!