Do you guys Amazon Prime? If you’ve been living under a rock, you pay $99 for the year, but you get free shipping along with some other cool benefits like Prime Video/Music…that I do not use. It pays for itself, though, with the free shipping. 

And today is Prime Day, which means they have all kinds of ridiculous deals. And you can sign up for a free trial just to get these d. Here’s some of both the awesome and the truly ridiculous ones. (Full disclosure: these links are affiliate links.)

OH HELLO $67 Jacks, you’re pretty and nearly half off. I wear these shoes basically every single day in the summer.

Some sneakers, including the New Balance Vazee Agility Training Shoe. I’ve never worn these shoes, to be honest, but I like the other Vazees, so I’d bet these are good, too.

$30 off a Kindle Paperwhite and a Fire for $33, HELLO. (Super shameless plug that you can access Daily Burn on the Fire!) I may get a plain old regular Kindle. I have an iPad mini cutie that I read on, but when I’m connected to wifi, it basically operates like a big phone and I get distracted by all the things we get distracted by on our phones and my bath is no longer relaxing. (I do 94% of my reading in the bathtub.) 

YUP, a Squatty Potty. We had a lengthy discussion about this at work on Slack today because my coworkers are also not adults.

And a Segway, why not?!

A cat sounds therapy CD..

And you? Have you bought anything ridiculous today?

Coming tomorrow…a real, heartfelt post with some great news!  

Hello and happy Sunday! I’m sleepy, but content and relaxed right now, on the train home from another fun weekend in Amagansett with my friends.

I also just completed my first week of training — both for the Seawheeze Half next month and the Richmond Marathon in November. Sometimes it’s a huge pain in the ass to have a training plan looming over my head, but I mostly love having a plan to stick to.

Here’s how the first week went down. I’m working with Jess as a coach again, since she has never once steered me wrong in my running.

Week 1

Monday: “Easy” 4 miles // these were anything but easy, to be honest. I was home in NJ, and it was humid as hell and hilly, and it basically felt like I was already at mile 22 of a marathon. Awesome.

Tuesday: I ended up switching around a little bit this week since I was traveling, and I took Uplift Sculpt Fusion with Andi. GOOD GOD. This class is low-impact, but definitely not high intensity — my watch said I burned 350 calories, and I was DRENCHED in sweat.

Wednesday: First tempo run in god knows how long! I was to run 5 miles total — 1 warm up, 1 cool down and 3 miles of intervals in between: .5 miles tempo-effort with .5 rest, repeat, repeat. Even when a tempo run is sucking, it still feels better than a sucky slow run for some reason. This was the day I left for the beach, and I knew getting my run done in the morning would make a stressful day at work a little better before leaving.

Thursday: My “long” run on the schedule was 6 miles for this week. I knew the deeper we got into the weekend, the harder it would get to get my run in, so I went out and did it Thursday evening, with the promise of a glass of rosé upon my return.

Friday: I LOVE that ClassPass (use that link to get $30 off your first month) works out in the Hamptons too! We went to Flywheel in Sag, and I got a big Flywheel PR and burned almost 500 calories/5 glasses of wine.

Saturday: We had big ambitious plans of buying sweatshirts from the hardware store in town, so I worked that into my run to get a nice 3 miles in.

Today: Rest is important, too, y’all, so I took a lovely rest day, and the extent of my activity has been traipsing around with my suitcase.

Are you training for anything right now? Life is also an acceptable answer to this.