Do you pound the pavement before you pack on the pie? How about waddle through a post-Thanksgiving trot? Outside of the big feast, do you have a Thanksgiving Day tradition you’d like to share?
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Traditions have to start with a “first time” so this year I am running a 5K with a friend the day after Thanksgiving. The run is followed by a holiday lighted parade with Santa. I’m hoping it will be something our families will really enjoy, and we can put it on the calendar for next year. Happy Thanksgiving!
Typically I spent the day with my friends and others that have no other family to be with. It’s our “homeless” group. We play, laugh and eat, but treat it as a regular meal and divy up leftovers for whomever joined us. When the kids get older we’ll donate our time to shelter kitchen lines.
My husband and I are taking our 3 year old nephew on his first turkey trot. A 1 mile fun run and then a kids dash.
We attempt a post-dinner walk with our two Golden Retrievers. I say “attempt” because here in the Midwest, our Thanksgiving Day weather can run from gorgeous and sunny to snowy and downright horrid and nasty. Every year, we pledge to choose carefully and watch what we eat and sometimes, we actually achieve that goal! Other years, well, not so much (-:
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My first date with my husband was the Thanksgiving Day Run in Cincinnati which is a 10K run through the city. We try to run it every year and think back on how we were both trying to ‘show off’ for one another that day. Now it’s just a good time to think back on 8 years of blessing together and someday hope to include our 3 kids (2, 4, 6) in the tradition!
We have a tradition (past 9 yrs) of inviting family, friends and neighbors on a 2 hr hike thru the reservoir near our house on Thanksgiving morning – its great to start of the day with an invigorating hike and catching up with friends, before everyone goes on their way to their own family traditional dinners. We have hiked thru rain, snow and warm temperatures and always run into other hikers and bikers and wild life. we see a little history, finding the foundation for an old settlement and cemetary. We do come back to a few snacks but feel we have burned off enough calories to enjoy the dinner!
I get together with friends and do a “Burn the Turkey” hike on Thanksgiving morning. It burns the calories in advance, plus knowing that I did all that work, I’m less likely to pig out.
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I participate in the Concept 2 Indoor Rowing Holiday Challenge. It is a challenge that begins on American Thanksgiving (because the Challenege is world wide) and runs until Midnight on Christmas Eve. The challenge is to row 100,000 or 200,000 meters between these two dates. Since it starts on Thanksgiving, we get up early and get in at least 10,000 meters to get them out of the way!
Cleveland has a 5-mile “Turkey Trot” race every Thanksgiving ~ I’ve been running it for the past 7 years. This race I’ll be 20 weeks pregnant, so I’ll be running it a little slower, but still getting in a great workout before the feast!