Take Three

Yup, I'm back. Over a year and almost a half since my last post. I'm newly 24. My little tiny kitten is now a year and a half, but still acts like a little baby. I am no longer serving but went back to school- for Massage Therapy (this experience will be saved for a later post). I moved back home to save money while at school and am currently awaiting for my license to become active so I can begin working full time. In the last 4 weeks, I've been rewatching Friends, training at my new job, helping my mom out with her blog, 365 Days of Baking and More, and probably most importantly marathon training.

Tyler texted me over Christmas and said she was moving back in with her parents and was planning on training for a marathon. Coincidentally, my parents moved to a house a street away from hers. It was perfect timing because I'd be able to start training while still in school and then have 8 weeks after I graduated to continue training. Right now, tomorrow marks a month out from that first 26.2 for the both of us. I'd say training has gone pretty well for us considering we both started with little training base and had never run over 13 miles before. Our farthest is 18 after the planned 19 this past weekend didn't happen because we got lost on a trail but the views were great.

From now until the marathon I'll write some updates but being an amateur marathoner, I won't be offering any advice. I've also committed to the Tone It Up Bikini Series. This will be the third time I've attempted it and the first time I plan on completing it. I've even made an Instagram account for this new endeavor (runfitlex) to which I've also decided to rename this blog to. I loved the ring that "For the Love of Running" had, but had found out the name had already been taken. I always come back to running and love following the journey of other women in the sport. I'm excited to be back to spending my free time with this new hobby. I must have really liked it before if I came back to it. So here we go, for a third time! 

Take Two

Sometimes I get really frustrated because I'm passionate about a lot of things. If someone was to tell me this I'd think "how can someone have too many passions?" I mean, this makes sense if they all tie into each other somehow. Like, if someone was passionate about swimming and running they could get into triathlon and just pick up the cycling. Or if someone was interested in both health and cooking they could become a nutritionist. Creating a career from a passion is something I dream of, however I keep changing my mind.

In high school it was running and photography. I used to have dreams of becoming fashion or lifestyle photographer so when I started college, I declared photography as a major. I then got a gig taking pictures for the school's newspaper, but I was never  published. I wasn't too into this whole idea so one day I thought about how I'd love to become a teacher. So I changed my major to Special Education. The classes were great, my instructors were inspiring, and at age 19, this is what I was going to do with my life. I was going to have a classroom and I was going to be one who lived up to the quote of "those who can, teach". After two semesters life happened and I ended up back at home with my parents and worked as a daycare teacher for two year olds. It was here that I was talking to a coworker about how I felt that being a teacher wasn't really something I was passionate about anymore and she was telling me about how her daughter was at school in a Speech Pathology program. My coworker was sharing how the income for people in this field is high and that people are needed to fill these jobs. I went home and researched the field and thought I'd go back to school and declare this as my major for the final time. I was in the program for a semester before my family moved to New Hampshire. I took some classes online but work got too crazy so I dropped them. It's been a year since I've been in school and as of right now, I'm not looking into going back to learning Speech Pathology.

Also within the last two years, I've gone back and forth between both running and triathlon. This isn't as big a dilemma as figuring out a career, but it is frustrating none the less. Triathlon's expensive and you can't do it without a bike, a pool to swim in, or races to enter. Running is much cheaper in this regard. All you really need are running shoes, shorts, and race fees are sometimes about a third of a triathlon. I can always do one or the other whenever I want. But as I've written before, I've been leaning more toward focusing on running. This was great until I got sick and stayed six for 3 weeks and when work got stressful. I plan to pick running back up again soon, slowly. I am also planning on getting this blog going again too. I'm thinking that maybe I can channel all those crazy passions I have into one thing. So, here's take two and hopefully no take three.