u/body_squat

Looking for **shorter distance races (5K, 10K, anything in between) in the city that do not run on Kelly Drive, MLK, or in Fairmount Park.

I’ve done Broad Street, I’ve done the Philly Half, a few years back when it was the Rock and Roll 7.6K, that let you run into center city and was a great course. Doing the Philly 10K in August.

Does anything else like those exist? Seems like everything that pops up runs in the same place. Rocky Run, PDR, Philly Run Fest, Rothman Ortho 8K, Labor Day 10k. All pretty much the same route.

I understand the logistical challenge and expense to shut down city roads. This is not a question of why there seem to be none. I understand why. I’m trying to see if I’m missing anything that anyone knows about and enjoys.

Looking for experiences and insights from Financial Mutants who have worked through and mentally buried money mistakes from their past. I can't help but keep thinking "what could have been?" and I think it may be turning me miserly. There's obviously nothing I can do about it now, but I'm unable to move on and its causing me a lot of issues.

Currently 34, married, and have been following the FOO since i found The Money Guy three years ago.

When I was 18, a college professor encouraged opening a Roth IRA. My parents have no financial literacy, so we opened a Roth IRA at our local credit union and all it did was earn interest like a HYSA for over a decade until i found TMG.

In 2020, a friend I considered to be financially smarter than me called in a panic to say the marketing is plummeting, take your 401K and move to cash now! I had about 57K in my 401K, and I moved it all to cash in late February 2020... then forgot. That same friend never called when it was time to get back in, and I never thought twice about it. It wasn't until i switched jobs in mid-2022 and rolled my old 401K into my new 401K that I started putting those dollars to work again.

Today, we're doing fine. We make a great HHI, and we're saving 25%. But I can't push past what I left on the table, and it's causing me and my wife grief as I tend to be overbearing with our finances in fear of making another mistake.

TLDR: If you've made money mistakes in your past, did everything turn out okay? How did you move on mentally?