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April 27, 2007
Is that the finish line in the distance?
I like to think about life in running terms a lot. In fact, when I was interviewing for my first 'real' job after college, for which I had absolutely no qualifications or relevant experience except that I was cute, nice, and a quick learner, I answered every interview question with a running experience. For example, it might have gone like this (I have a bad memory so I don't remember exactly):
Interviewer: Can you tell me about a time when you were in a difficult situation and you had to use problem solving skills?
Barb: Well, when I ran on the cross country and track teams in college, our coach would blindfold us, drop us off 8 or 9 miles from campus, and make us find our way back. We had to use problem solving skills, apply logic, and use teamwork in order to make it back to school.
Now the interviewer probably just felt bad for my that my coach would do such a weird thing, but really it was fun! And although now I have relevant experience with which I can answer this type of question, I still think about life in terms of running and sometimes apply running strategies to issues, problems, and general situations requiring some type of strategy.
Thus, now that my sememster and my wedding will both be over in about two weeks, I feel that I can see the finish line and no matter how tired I am of writing papers, reading Victorian novels, thinking about flowers, writing thank you notes, etc., etc., it will all be over soon and I will have free time once again. During which I am very excited to train a lot, read magazines, maybe read some chick lit, read anything I want, stay up past 10:00 on a week night once or twice, stuff like that. It will be great!
Not that I am not excited about everything that is coming up, because I am. But I am also excited not to have to think about weddings. And class. However, I am really excited that my best maid, Betsy, is here for the weekend! It was so nice having a running buddy this morning! It is generally great to have Betsy here so we can hang out and chat and do all kinds of fun things that we rarely get to do since she lives in New York. So that will be great and I think we are going to have a really fun weekend.
And just because this blog is ostensibly about running, here are my workouts for the week. It has been a good one so far!
- Monday - 6 mile easy run, 30 minutes spinning, lifting
- Tuesday - 7 mile easy run in a pouring rain, very strange but kind of fun
- Wednesday - 8 mile easy run, 30 minutes spinning
- Thursday - 6/4 double (morning and after work). In my afternoon run I made a great discovery that one of my favorite trails now has a tunnel under a busy road, so you can run there during rush hour (instead of waiting for a break between all the cars which is mostly impossible)
- Friday - 5 mile easy run with Betsy. So fun!
The rest of the weekend is planned as follows:
- Saturday - Practice with the team at 7:00 am in Boulder. Realistically there is about a 60% chance that I will go what with all the maids coming over tonight. But either way I will be running tomorrow morning.
- Sunday - 5 mile easy run (in a race). I will be wearing my buns that say BRIDE on the butt. This will really tax my blogging skills as I am really going to want to post a picture of me and the maids in our cute outfits. I am going to attempt to do some semblance of a warmup and/or cooldown but I may be prevented by family obligations and/or a hangover. After I take Betsy to the airport in the early afternoon I will probably also bike since 5 miles is a pretty weak Sunday workout.
That is the week in Barb-Land.....
Posted by barb at April 27, 2007 8:20 AM
Comments
Hi Barb!
Enjoy all of your upcoming festitivites!
Have fun with Betsy!
Posted by: Audrey at April 27, 2007 10:01 AM