Another week of work goes by

Things have slowed back down again at work, and I am feeling happy about my current job role. I am learning new tools, and feeling more comfortable with my responsibilities. I am working on losing a few pounds with a better attitude. I am concentrating on eating enough to keep my fitness a priority, so the weight will come off slowly, but I will feel better in the meantime :-).

I am still a little bummed that my race was cancelled, but I am looking forward to going to TX to run a 1/2 marathon with my brother. I will have only run races with my brother this year, which is pretty strange! I ran a new year's 5K with him and the Rock and Roll 1/2 in Phoenix. He seems like he is doing really well with speed work on the treadmill. I am jealous, I can never make any progress at all if I can't run outside. Those darn treadmills make me nervous at speed!

The 3PM-3AM schedule I am working right now has been a little tricky to settle into. The hubby and I are struggling with my long weeks where I go almost 4 days without seeing him. (We did play racquetball today before I left for work, and that was awesome). The weekend will be only Sunday for us this week, and then he's off to work M-F. At least we see eachother in the evenings Monday and Tuesday, so there's that. It makes me not want to go to Monday night yoga anymore though because then I miss spending time with him :-(. I know there are people who have to deal with more difficult schedules, and I pity them, this has taken some getting used to.

The summer is finally reaching an end. . .

I went for a bike ride this morning, only 20 miles, but I wasn't tired or dehydrated at the end of it, so I call it a win! My work schedule doesn't allow me to wake up very early to go for a ride, so I will have to wait until it cools down to really persue my south mtn and usery goal :-). I am still bummed about not having a triathlon this year, but I have a 1/2 marathon coming up in November with my brother in TX, so that will be something to look forward to.

Tomorrow is going to be my long run- 12 miles at this time. I will begin getting back up to speed, and getting back to my distance over the winter. I may be able to sign up for a 1/2 IM in April! That would be great to get done before the summer hits again. IM distance for next year if I can get signed up for the race :-)

wow, what a day!

I have had just the worst time with this coworker. She loves to talk to me in this way that makes my ego shrivel to 32 nm. She starts each sentence with my name, which wouldn't be bad, but it actually is quite condesending. I know who I am, please. . . "Jessica, you are not understanding what I am asking." Too much contact with her today has lead to a fun new discovery about stress and poor eating habits. I have learned that if I just let myself throw a fit (not in public), then I am ok to go about my day without binge eating. Fantastic, this must be how normal people handle their issues! I have used some very destressing language in my car and cried a few angry tears, but I feel better now. . .at least about that.

My terrible day had some leakage into my other life, my triathlete life. A month or so ago, my triathlon I was training for was turned into a duathlon, and I got pretty bummed, and lost all motivation to go to the pool. Well, today, I got word that the race has been cancelled completely.