remiss (for posting), but running!

even with my trip across the country, i managed to stay more or less on-schedule with the running (yay me!). extra special thanks to my own personal Iron (Wo)Man, Amanda, for running 7 mi with me in Baltimore. definitely made me appreciate running in san diego where you typically do not need ear warmers and gloves! : ) i did a few hotel treadmill runs...boring, but easier on my knees, and then after flying back from chicago, joined up with my Team in Training friends and completed 8 miles. i actually felt good after! (though i felt even better after i treated myself with 15 min of massage from our onsite therapist, thank you david rice, you are awesome!)

this week is "back down" so i'm going to do the 4 mi in Portland, OR with the friends i'm visiting this weekend, should be fun. then we go up to 9 mi...so crazy! never imagined i could do this, but with the support of TNT, my running buddy Sam, and the amazing support of all of you (i'm up to 85% of my fundraising goal!), it's all happening. very exciting. about 6 weeks to race day!! ~ j

finding balance

hello there readers....all 4 of you? ; )

thanks to everyone for your support of me in this endeavor! i'm pretty far along with the fundraising, maybe about $600 more to go, feel like i can do it.

mileage has been going up -- my new longest distance is 7 mi. never thought for a minute i could run that far. very exciting.

been thinking a lot about balance lately. balance between work life and personal life. balance between pushing yourself physically and knowing when to take a break. balance between being happy how things are and being motivated to change them. lots of things like that. i guess all that's to say that there is a deeper process going on here than just running (or sometimes not running), but redefining myself and my priorities a little bit to fit all of this in. it ebbs and flows -- i'm definitely not perfect when it comes to following the training schedule TNT provides, but i also think i'm doing better than i expected and perhaps as well as can be expected given other things i'm balancing it against. of course there are people who are able to reconfigure their lives around training, and i admire that, but i'm not sure that's me. we'll see. but after a few up and down weeks of training, i'm going to do my best to recommit to being as close to perfect as i can. may be a little tricky because i'm traveling, but hotels have fitness centers and concierges can point out running routes in unfamiliar cities. thankfully too i have some wonderful friends i'm seeing on this trip that will run with me, my ironman (woman!) friend this weekend and my dear sweet A next week in chicago. so i'm hopeful about getting back on track, but i'm also learning to be patient with myself (and i hope you are too) about not being 100% on point all the time.

like i said, i'm learning...and, boy, i really can't wait to learn what it feels like to have raised 100% of your fundraising goal AND to cross that finish line...

stay tuned! ~j