New Job! Training updates.

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well this Wednesday morning.

First of all, as many of you have seen on good old Facebook, I finally got a teaching position! I had just resigned myself to substituting until I made myself known in the school districts, when I met an Assistant Principal at a church cookout. She asked me in for an interview, which took place yesterday morning. They called me about an hour after I left to offer me the position! Now I just have to wait for the paperwork to go through the district and the state before I am given an "official" offer. I will be teaching Kindergarten, which wouldn't have been my first choice, but it wouldn't have been my last either! I am so excited to start organizing and decorating my little classroom, and to start planning with the kindergarten team. Today I will be heading to Goodwill to look for bean bag chairs, lamps, and bookshelves, and kindergarten level books. I have also already created a sister blog for my classroom, mostly for the purposes of parent communication. That might mean this blog will be eclipsed, but that is okay because I was only writing to inspire myself to finish a marathon, which I have now done.

I skipped my swim yesterday, because it was raining outside, so I couldn't use the neighborhood pool, and my gym is going through a remodel, so I couldn't use their indoor pool. So I had two rest days in a row, but I think that was necessary. I did a long bike on Saturday (2 hours) and a long run on Sunday (50 minutes) and my body was begging for a break. I really thought incorporating low-impact swimming and biking would help my body stop hurting, but it just makes it hurt in different places. Swimming makes my ankles hurt and my shoulders sore. Biking makes my wrists hurt and my quads sore. I also haven't been stretching as well as I should after swimming and biking, which is probably part of the problem. I also stopped foam rolling altogether until last week and these last few times on that blue torture device have been especially excruciating.

I just did a nice little 30 minute jog. There are only 46 days until the triathlon, and after that I am going to do one of those 5k obstacle races ("Houston Jailbreak") in October. Then I will start training for the half marathon that I am signed up to do in Birmingham in Feburary (the one I was supposed to do last year.) I hope that once I start teaching I don't get too overwhelmed and stop exercising. I need to make sure that doesn't happen, because I'm pretty sure that will help keep me sane. But I know how easy it is to say "I'm tired and busy and just don't feel like exercising today" several days/weeks/months in a row. But my dear husband asked me to divvy up the housework, now that I also have a job, so that he can do his share (isn't he great??) He said he'll do whatever I need, as long as it isn't laundry, which will give me time to squeeze in some runs during the week:)

As always, thanks for reading!