Marathon Weekly Update

MIA

I'm sure that many of you are wondering how I am feeling since my last post was during a quiet time between trips to the bathroom. Or, maybe I'm just flattering myself in thinking that you can't get enough of reading my blog. Either way, I have come out of the stomach flu relatively unscathed and a bit skinnier. Yes, I lost 5 pounds in 2 1/2 days - not in any kind of healthy way, but I'll take it where I can get it. I haven't weighed myself since that time so I don't know if that weight stayed off or if it leapt back on my body as soon as I was eating solid food again and keeping it in my body.

I was a little nervous about my run on Saturday. It should have been cake - 8 miles at a slower pace, but I didn't have a lot of energy after my toilet hug-o-rama. I guess a week off isn't terrible when you are going into a recovery run. My shin splints got some more time to heal and in general I was in good shape. I didn't really mesh with the new group but I keep reminding myself that I won't always be running with them.

Later on that afternoon a friend and I were poking around in Golden Gate Park, exploring different stops that I had never visited. We were walking around Stowe Lake when a squirrel tried to attack me. I'm not joking. It jumped out of the bushes as we were walking and ran straight at me. It stopped just a foot short of where I was standing and hunkered down, ready to leap in the air. I was certain it was going to attack and while I was screaming like a girl I was calculating how quickly I could get my foot up to kick it out of the air when it went for my throat.

That night was the Fine Arts Festival at school. I got to watch 1 1/2 hours of dance, one of my favorite things. For a school of 250 students we have an amazing breadth of talent. There are 2 ninth grade students who have the potential to dance professionally and all I could think was, "I get to watch them perform for the next three years!" I know, I'm a dance nerd.

Sunday was a lovely combination of activity and inertia. I discovered my new favorite diner for breakfast, got enough work done to make me feel good about starting the week, and had a lovely afternoon of manis and pedis and dinner with Stef. What more could a girl ask for.

This week and next are the AP exams and I'm in charge. Each day gets a little bit better/easier and I have welcomed the 5 hour stretches of proctoring when I can't be interrupted by phone calls or drop-in visitors. I have been amazingly productive (I say as I'm writing in my blog). I have been getting up at 5am to get a workout in before getting the APs set for the day. My maintenance run went smoothly yesterday, although I need to do a better job of taping my arches/shin splints so I don't end up with so many tape cuts. I won tickets to the SF Giants game on Monday night and spent a lovely evening taking in a baseball game. Last night my volleyball team won our match in 3 games and I found out that one of my teammates is the husband of someone I have known for 10 years.

All-in-all it has been a good week.

posted by Heidi @ 8:47 AM