Good morning journal
The weather outside has hints of spring in it, despite the fact that there was a blizzard yesterday. Oh New England, you are so exhausting.
Four miles tomorrow and I'll finally feel like this training is paying off. It seems so silly to get excited about four miles, because it's not far, but it's a half mile further than I've ever gone before. hahah, why do my friends have to be long-distance runners? They run half marathons for the love of god! 13.2 miles! and I'm excited about 4. I reckon you've got to start somewhere right? The training is really working though, I can tell the difference in my strength and endurance, which is good. So we'll do the 10k in April, and then start training on the half marathon I promised myself I'd run by the end of next year.
So that's that.
Alex is a bed hog. The boy is like a sponge, he looks small and compact during the day when he's walking around, but he hits that mattress and expands. I have become rather intoxicated by the daydream life we invented to get me through last week. The moving to California, the condo/town house/real house we will potentially own, the promise of having access to my own personal kitchen, going for long runs with Commodore Wellington while Alex and Duke Ellington keep each other company by the computer... maybe even living near more than 3miles of coastline?
I want that life to be right now. Patience, I need to summon my patience. It will be, what, three more years until we can relocate? I can definitely wait 3 years, especially since only 1 more of them will involve RN education. I could wait 10 knowing only 1 of them would involve nursing school stress.
I've got to make sure I work my ass off for the year and a half I have left though. So, off I go.
Four miles tomorrow and I'll finally feel like this training is paying off. It seems so silly to get excited about four miles, because it's not far, but it's a half mile further than I've ever gone before. hahah, why do my friends have to be long-distance runners? They run half marathons for the love of god! 13.2 miles! and I'm excited about 4. I reckon you've got to start somewhere right? The training is really working though, I can tell the difference in my strength and endurance, which is good. So we'll do the 10k in April, and then start training on the half marathon I promised myself I'd run by the end of next year.
So that's that.
Alex is a bed hog. The boy is like a sponge, he looks small and compact during the day when he's walking around, but he hits that mattress and expands. I have become rather intoxicated by the daydream life we invented to get me through last week. The moving to California, the condo/town house/real house we will potentially own, the promise of having access to my own personal kitchen, going for long runs with Commodore Wellington while Alex and Duke Ellington keep each other company by the computer... maybe even living near more than 3miles of coastline?
I want that life to be right now. Patience, I need to summon my patience. It will be, what, three more years until we can relocate? I can definitely wait 3 years, especially since only 1 more of them will involve RN education. I could wait 10 knowing only 1 of them would involve nursing school stress.
I've got to make sure I work my ass off for the year and a half I have left though. So, off I go.