Another half marathon accomplished in under two hours! Despite the hilly course and extra 15lbs that I can't seem to lose, I got a personal best of 1 hour 58 minutes! I had so much momentum going into this race. I felt like I'd been training for so long. My times were looking good. I felt great finishing and loved feeling so prepared for the race itself. While running the halfer, I was thinking, "This is perfect. This is challenging and enough. I don't need to do a full." Then I crossed the finish line and within minutes some one mentioned doing a full marathon and I volunteered to train with them. Monday I start training for the Philadelphia Marathon in November. Ahh!!! I had the same feeling as the last half marathon, that the training meant more to me than the race. I proved to myself that I could work through some issues/injuries and disappointment (13.1 not 26.2 miles).
The half marathon was May 20th and then I proceeded to take a break from running. I did one little race in town that I was secretly hoping back when I was regularly training for the half marathon to finish in the top 10 for my age group. Running after not doing any thing for 3 weeks was awful! I felt terrible running it. Luckily, one of my mommy friends motivated me and I managed to stay close to her. I miraculously finished 10th in my age group! I was more excited about that than the half marathon results. Go figure!
Anyway, instead of running this last month I've been doing lots of gardening. Its been so great. The kids are so involved and interested in what's growing. I love it! I feel like I've been doing a lot of thinking about technology and how it ends up sucking time away from productive things or just thinking. I mean for a stay at home mom I look at the computer a lot in the day yet I don't feel very informed about much. What the heck am I wasting my time looking at a screen? I really need to stick to some tasks that must be accomplished and specific places to read my news and just get off and stay off the computer. Chances are I won't miss anything. Gardening has been a wonderful way to keep myself away from checking my phone or looking online. I hate my bad habits and worse they are so hard to get rid of! This week I'm going to start shutting down the computer instead of it just being left on.
My poor eating habits have really caught up with me in the form of a very unflattering Facebook picture posted by my husband, no less!!! What was he thinking!? Anyway, I realize I could just take the tag off but I'm leaving it on as a punishment/motivation to myself to get going on losing the 15lbs already! WW has not been doing it for me. I sometimes go to the meetings where I don't find the leader motivating (I miss my retired old leader). I have not done any of the points stuff or tracking. I'm still a believer in WW its just that you have to actually work the plan. I'm thinking about just doing the online version and getting my own scale, perhaps this week.
Drum roll, please. The really big news.... I finished my application for school in the fall to become a Montessori teacher. I still have to mail or e-mail all the different parts but its all filled out. I sent out all my requests for recommendations and transcripts and I wrote up my personal statement. It feels really good to have that done. Really good.
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