"See, here's the thing..."
School has begun and so has the madness. As I mentioned in my last blog posting, I have been getting up early to go run (around 6:30 am) prior to having to be at school at 8:30ish. Now that the kids have returned to school, I have to be at school by 7:30ish...so when am I running now? At 5:30 am!!!! Good grief! I am NOT a morning person, so getting up at this hour is a huge struggle. I did well yesterday morning, but today was a different story. In fact, I woke up, than went back to sleep with the excuse that I have karate tonight so I didn't want to work out twice!
On the plus side, yesterday's early morning run was quite memorable. I was able to watch the lunar eclipse. It was really cool, and the longer I ran the more it changed. I have never seen a lunar eclipse before...as I said before, I am NOT a morning person. So, this was an experience that I am thankful for since I will probably never experience it again...no I don't plan on continuing to run at 5:30 am after my marathon is over!
While I am not a big fan of the early morning runs, I do feel like my Sunday morning long runs are going well. I have now successfully completed 15 miles! Go me! I also managed to impress a Tech football player on my long run..which was really cool. I had already run 13 miles and ended up at the park near my house for a few laps around the track. I was down to one 8 oz. bottle of water and was extremely thirsty...after all, I had only run 13 miles. The first water fountain I went to didn't work, so I headed to the water fountain at the playground. A rather large gentleman was already there with his sweet dog. He saw the look on my face and allowed me to go ahead of him. Unfortunately, that water fountain didn't work either. So, we began to talk about the water I had left, which led to how many miles I had already run, and how many I had left to run. He was a little shocked when I told him I had to run 15 that day. However, he was impressed with the mileage and the fact that I was training for a marathon. It made me feel good that a collegiate athlete was impressed with my athletic abilities...no matter how slow I might be.
My fundraising is also going in spurts. We held a bake sale at Sam's on Sunday and earned a little over $200. We plan on doing this again on Friday, and finally at the local Harvest Festival. I am also hoping that we can get some great business donations (both monetary donations and raffle donations). If I can get enough raffle donations, then I plan to sell raffle tickets. We have a $40 gift card from Wal-Mart, and some free appetizers for Joe's Crab Shack right now, but that's really not enough for a good raffle. Hopefully we'll get some more. :-)
School is also very busy....I haven't had a spare moment in my office to work on the paperwork side of my job. I have been loading programs and troubleshooting all day, every day. So, I spend most evenings sitting at the computer. In addition, I am childless at school now. Ty went to middle school and Ry decided to attend the elementary where my mom and sister teach. It is home school though, and all of his baseball friends and neighbors attend that school. He decided that he wanted to go where his friends went, and how could I say no? Two baseball friends are in his class, and I think that he really enjoys it there.
Ty, on the other hand, had a difficult day today. She lost her binder....HUGE DEAL for her. She couldn't find it in her locker this morning, and it really upset her. My sweet friend Ashley, the c-tech there, called me to let me know and so I could talk to Ty. We never did find that binder despite Ty and Ashley searching the campus, and us searching the house. Thanks for taking care of Ty, Ashley! :-)
My Weekly Running Update:
I don't even know...I have been so busy at school that I haven't had time to really log my miles. I do know that my long runs have been between 12 and 15 miles over the past few weeks, and I usually run about 5 miles on 3 other days of the week, so you do the math. :-)
School has begun and so has the madness. As I mentioned in my last blog posting, I have been getting up early to go run (around 6:30 am) prior to having to be at school at 8:30ish. Now that the kids have returned to school, I have to be at school by 7:30ish...so when am I running now? At 5:30 am!!!! Good grief! I am NOT a morning person, so getting up at this hour is a huge struggle. I did well yesterday morning, but today was a different story. In fact, I woke up, than went back to sleep with the excuse that I have karate tonight so I didn't want to work out twice!
On the plus side, yesterday's early morning run was quite memorable. I was able to watch the lunar eclipse. It was really cool, and the longer I ran the more it changed. I have never seen a lunar eclipse before...as I said before, I am NOT a morning person. So, this was an experience that I am thankful for since I will probably never experience it again...no I don't plan on continuing to run at 5:30 am after my marathon is over!
While I am not a big fan of the early morning runs, I do feel like my Sunday morning long runs are going well. I have now successfully completed 15 miles! Go me! I also managed to impress a Tech football player on my long run..which was really cool. I had already run 13 miles and ended up at the park near my house for a few laps around the track. I was down to one 8 oz. bottle of water and was extremely thirsty...after all, I had only run 13 miles. The first water fountain I went to didn't work, so I headed to the water fountain at the playground. A rather large gentleman was already there with his sweet dog. He saw the look on my face and allowed me to go ahead of him. Unfortunately, that water fountain didn't work either. So, we began to talk about the water I had left, which led to how many miles I had already run, and how many I had left to run. He was a little shocked when I told him I had to run 15 that day. However, he was impressed with the mileage and the fact that I was training for a marathon. It made me feel good that a collegiate athlete was impressed with my athletic abilities...no matter how slow I might be.
My fundraising is also going in spurts. We held a bake sale at Sam's on Sunday and earned a little over $200. We plan on doing this again on Friday, and finally at the local Harvest Festival. I am also hoping that we can get some great business donations (both monetary donations and raffle donations). If I can get enough raffle donations, then I plan to sell raffle tickets. We have a $40 gift card from Wal-Mart, and some free appetizers for Joe's Crab Shack right now, but that's really not enough for a good raffle. Hopefully we'll get some more. :-)
School is also very busy....I haven't had a spare moment in my office to work on the paperwork side of my job. I have been loading programs and troubleshooting all day, every day. So, I spend most evenings sitting at the computer. In addition, I am childless at school now. Ty went to middle school and Ry decided to attend the elementary where my mom and sister teach. It is home school though, and all of his baseball friends and neighbors attend that school. He decided that he wanted to go where his friends went, and how could I say no? Two baseball friends are in his class, and I think that he really enjoys it there.
Ty, on the other hand, had a difficult day today. She lost her binder....HUGE DEAL for her. She couldn't find it in her locker this morning, and it really upset her. My sweet friend Ashley, the c-tech there, called me to let me know and so I could talk to Ty. We never did find that binder despite Ty and Ashley searching the campus, and us searching the house. Thanks for taking care of Ty, Ashley! :-)
My Weekly Running Update:
I don't even know...I have been so busy at school that I haven't had time to really log my miles. I do know that my long runs have been between 12 and 15 miles over the past few weeks, and I usually run about 5 miles on 3 other days of the week, so you do the math. :-)
