Shamrock Run/Walk

Since my training has derailed fast, I'm trying to keep active/motivated with other races to fill in the weekends. Enter the 4 mile Shamrock Run/Walk on Saturday. Good news: I *think* I improved my average time. Bad news: I need to do something about the continued blisters I get on the bottom of my feet. This has nothing to do with training or the lack thereof--it's a sock/insert/shoe thing that I haven't mastered yet.

In other news, I will be moving to DC this summer. This alone deserves it's own post, but I have neither the time nor the energy to really write about it right now. Bottom line: I pushed the issue at work and have made my desires clear to multiple folks in management. It was a risk, but one that I needed to take.

As if I don't have enough to juggle, I finally found a breakthrough with therapy. I've struggled for MONTHS to get into an office on a consistent basis. It's been a corporate insurance nightmare. I finally got onto a schedule and then my therapist left last month. However, his counterpart runs a 6 week cognitive behavior group for anxiety management, and he helped me get a spot. I start Wednesday. Lots of uncertainty, but I'm going into it with an open mind and hope that I'll emerge with some coping strategies.

I was going to make my Guiness-Chocolate ice cream and attempt a Bailey's and coffee creation, but I ran out of time this weekend. Alas...there will be more times to create for the work folks later.

10K

It's been 10 days and 18 hours since my last training workout, so it should come as no surprise that I am in pain right now. The good news: another training race completed. The reality is I need to kick this into high gear if I'm to survive the mini that is a mere 8 weeks from now.

I am wiped out. The massage today was so-so, but at least I had one. Can't complain about that.