Tag: MLwork

I’m heading out of town for the night tonight for a work event tomorrow morning and I’m bringing my scale with me so I can participate in WIW tomorrow via my hotel (that has a rooftop hot tub and pool that I plan to hit up this evening).

I’m about to go to the gym for a 3 miler before I leave town and will be wearing my new 10K attire to test it out. I thought about running outside, but a mid-day run in 90+ degree weather in Alabama is a baaaaaad ideal.

Luckily I won’t be out of touch thanks to my BlackBerry (next month is me and my BBs 1 year anniversary)

You know I’m working too hard when in my post I from yesterday I thought today was Wednesday. I was even dreading the scale this morning…I got on and was less than thrilled, but then I realized it’s only Tuesday and I can still turn this ship around. In all honesty I worked an 18 hour day yesterday, so technically it really does feel like Wednesday. It’s just hard since last Wednesday I’ve worked freshman orientation Wed-Fri and now Sun-Tues…most of which has been eating college dining food (but making the best possible choices from there).  We have a week off from orientation (I still have the be in the office, but I need to catch up on a ton of emails, calls, and CLEAN my office) – I’m glad to have a week to get back into the swing of things.

So regardless of what the scale days tomorrow, next week I’m thowing down!

Hot Hot Heat

So after going to bed at 1am I got up at 6am and made my way to campus for the parent run. It was 70 degrees and humid as heck. The run has about 15 parents, mostly dads. We also had some ROTC folks, orientation leaders and Dr Doug – our fearless leader. Dr Doug was pumped that I made it for a run! I was really excited and kept pace with folks for the first mile or so, but these people were serious.
Having 40+ year old parents out run you isn’t too good for your ego, but I had an 18 hour day ahead of me so I slowed down and ran by myself the 2nd half of the run. I forgot about all the “rolling hills” of campus – yeesh. Regardless I was pretty proud of myself. I got back prob 6 minutes after the rest of the group, but there are no losers!
One thing I’ve come to realize that since I took up running in January — EVERY day that I run outside is the hottest day I’ve ever run. So summer in Alabama is gonna be a challenge, but I’m a fighter. When there’s a will there’s a way.
I plan on doing another parent run later in the summer – maybe right before my 10K and see how much my running has progressed. I know I need to do more more more outdoor running. My outdoor pace is not nearly as good as my treadmill pace and I need to continue work on my breathing. Also I need to make time to work on sprinting as well. I know I’ll never be an amazing runner, but I continue to amaze myself as a runner!

Run Baby Run

I am currently working session 3 of 8 of our freshman orientation program aka 18 hour work days. I most likely will get home at 12:30am tonight and plan on getting up at 6:10am and going on the running tour of campus that we offer. I’ve never done the running tour, but we usually get a few handful of parents and orientation leaders to run. It’s about a 3 mile run which is also how much I need to run to kick off this weeks half marathon training. Wish we luck it has been humid as all hell here lately!

Despite only about 11 hours of sleep in the past 3 days – I’m headed to the gym after work today to run/job and meet with my trainer. I made my appointment with the trainer a few weeks ago not thinking I would be as exhausted as I am, but I’m gonna push through and hopefully sleep like a BABY tonight (and when I say sleep I mean take a 14 hour coma).

Temptation

I successfully avoided lots of temptation yesterday. Eating college catering food is always dangerous. I avoided burgers, chips, cookies very successfully. I only had a SMALL spoonful a broccoli cheese casserole and 2 bites of someone’s pie. Instead ate heaping piles of grilled chicken, veggies and salad!

Stayed at work waaaay later than I wanted, but I guess that happens when 520 freshmen and 700 parents are gonna to infiltrate campus tomorrow for our first session of ORIENTATION!

I’m off to the gym – multitasking by watching Idol while on the treadmill at the gym!

Please keep my mental health in mind the next 3 days. This is my 9th summer of orientation and it’s still exciting and nervous. Also keep my eating habits in your prayers while I’m subjected to limited choices in food!

I’m a fail whale and didn’t run this morning. Sleep is at a premium right now. After coming off a 14 hour work day and heading into a 17 hour work day I couldn’t get myself out of bed. I did bring sneakers to work and hope if there is any down time that I can at least walk campus a bit.

Wet Run

I am currently at a ropes course/retreat facility with my staff/students. We did a bunch of fun activities today and a low ropes course tomorrow. This afternoon during our break I went for a run around the property in the pouring rain. I’ve never “formally” run in the rain and I have to say it was glorious. An interesting combination of sweat and cold rain. I loved it. I ran for about 30 minutes and figure I did at least 2.5miles. All my students were impressed that I used my break to run. I’m gonna try my darndest to get through the next two weeks of orientation training and still run as much as possible!