It's raining in Texas. We're talking longer-than-30-seconds kind of rain. It rained yesterday for much of the day and all through the night. It continued to rain this morning, which I had been planning to spend biking. Instead, I ran in the rain. I did five miles, which is the longest I have run since my marathon. It's crazy to think that almost exactly three months ago I ran 26.2 miles, because...five miles was kiiiinnd of a challenge. Of course, my run this morning was made all the more challenging because of the small sidewalk-lakes I ran through and the gales of wind. I saw four other runners while I was out, and I noticed a roughly 80% increase in the camaraderie betwixt us; we were all so thrilled to discover that we weren't the sole crazy person on the planet! I grinned like a maniac when I passed the first fellow rain runner, and he grinned back at me (relax, he was old and not cute.) It was possibly the most pleasant run I have had in Texas so far; it was cool AND I didn't need a flashlight--two things that are have been mutually exclusive up to this point. Fall must be here!
I told myself when I started working that I would exercise twice during the week and twice during the weekends for a total of four days a week. That's not terribly ambitious, right? I figured I could at least do that, and probably do more each week. Sadly, I have consistently run only one time during the week, and last weekend I didn't really do much at all because we were in Florida visiting my parents and going to see Mumford and Sons (yes, they were awesome.) I did go on two three-mile walks with my dad, and I did spend a lot of time on my feet for the concert, but still...I'm not even sticking to my low goal! Here are my excuses: 1) It is freaking hard to wake up at 5:00 in the morning, especially with how much I sleep these days. 2) It is even harder to convince myself to run after spending an entire day with 21 kindergarteners. They are exhausting little boogers! 3) It's always so hot when I leave school anyway, and 4) I usually don't get out of there until 4:30-5:00 so I need to head home to make dinner for Rob and myself because it's a 25-30 minute commute. So there. Excuses, excuses. I am hoping that once it starts cooling off I can ask Rob to be in charge of dinner a couple times a week (which he has already offered to do.)
Despite the fact that I am exercising way less, I am under 130 lbs for the first time since high school. I think it's because I am on my feet most of the day, and even if I sit down it's a max time of 10 minutes before I am up again. Then there's the kneeling down, standing up, squatting down, standing up, sitting on the floor, standing up, dancing, singing, shouting, walking, stressing, etc., that comes with being a kindergarten teacher... I just think I burn more calories during the day and I have much less time to think about food (but I do eat a lot more crap food, because there is always crap food available. I had two birthdays in my class yesterday, so I had a cookie and a cupcake. Yes, I did.)
We had Open House at school this week and it went pretty well. About half of the parents showed up, but of course only one of the five parents that I felt I really needed to talk to showed up. Hopefully the rest will show up for parent/teacher conferences on October 3rd. I received a lot of nice compliments from the parents that came in about how much their kid loves me/coming to school and how glad they are that I am their child's teacher, yada yada. I even had one parent compliment me on being organized, which was odd because I don't think I am organized at all. And the students who came were all SO excited to see me, like they hadn't just seen me three hours before. All of that almost made the 14 hour day worth it! Almost.
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