I've been busy in my life. I've played a college sport. I've gone to school full time and worked full time simultaneously. I've always been the kind of person who thrives on having absolutely no free time. But this time is a whole 'nother ball game, people.
Work is super fantastic. I found the greatest job - I'm nannying for this cute little family. They have 2 adorable boys, ages 5 and 2, and I seriously spend most of my days playing legos and riding bikes. I even get some homework done during nap time! Its amazing.
School is going really well. So far. I’m doing really well on keeping on top of assignments and readings, and I’ve had 3 midterms and done well on all of them. I can’t say the material is hard/easy, its just something I’m genuinely interested in. We are just getting to the point in the semester that we are getting bombarded with midterms and papers and assignments etc etc etc. (Sidenote: tomorrow we’ll be halfway through the semester. Holy shnikes.) But hopefully I can continue to stay on top of things and make it out the next 8 weeks alive!
My triathlon is in LESS than 3 weeks now – yikes! I took last week off, but otherwise I have been pretty consistently getting in at least 1 of each workout a week. I’m able to do all of the race distances already except for the swim, so I have some work to do the next few weeks, but I think between a little more practice and a little endorphin kick on race day that I will be just fine. I’m so excited about this new challenge and I’m already thinking ahead to what my next race will be! I’m debating between just running or sticking with the tri stuff – but I think I’ll wait and see how Nov 6th goes before I make any decisions!
However – I am looking at doing a half marathon in January, and maybe (BIG maybe) a full in March. And an Olympic or international distance tri at some point in 2011. I am fully on my way to becoming one of THOSE annoying race people. Especially once I finish school!
And, hey. I’ve been thinking it, so I’m going to come out and say it. I want to run the Boston Marathon. And I don’t want to do it because I’m raising money for cancer or something – who does that? No. I want to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Which means I need to run TWO marathons in under 3 hours, 40 minutes. That’s roughly 7:15 a mile. My fastest race pace so far is about 8:30. For a 10k. I have a LOT of work to do.
OK, it’s time for bed, before I make any more ridiculous proclamations. To end on a good note: I started to write a paper and all I did was type the section headings before I got distracted by this post. Sounds like a good night’s work to me!
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