Half Marathon

Well, my first Half Marathon is officially complete!

I wish I would have been able to train a little more. But given where I live and that this is my first year teaching...I think I did the best I could.  Throw in a week where I was so sick I couldn't run (and only a few weeks before the race), I am pretty proud of how I did.

Sore as nothing else I have ever experienced! But so so so glad I can now cross that off the Bucket List. And surprisingly, I am way more excited about running than I was before I did this!

Sorry for the crappy quality, they were taken by a friend and downloaded so not as high quality as they should be.

 I have never felt such pain. Why is this uphill!?!?!?!?!

Almost there!

 Crossing the finish line!! I'm still alive! I think?

I was a little slower than what I was aiming for, but well under what I was expecting. Gotta run another one to get that time! Haha.

Humans of New York

The past few weeks have been somewhat rough for me.

I think it has largely been due to the fact that I got to spend 2 glorious weeks back in Colorado.  Coming back to AL, where I have such a tiny support group and no real friends outside of my coworkers...it was hard. Leaving behind family and friends, coming back to an empty apartment. Trying to get back into the swing of things...not fun.

I longed to get back to Colorado, or at least go on a vacation. Everything would be better if I could just be somewhere else. 

Today I stumbled across this post from Humans of New York. 

"...if you can't figure out your problems in your present circumstances, you're probably not going to figure them out by running away from them."

A very true statement, and one that I am going to try and keep in mind when things get tough. 

Mama Hill