So here goes…my first post. This isn’t exactly how I imagined it. I had visions of my first post illustrating a gratifying, tough run in Whittier, accompanied by beautiful landscape pictures. That isn’t how my day went. I spent most of my time finishing up my weekly discussion board post for graduate school and struggling to finish up the design of this website while entertaining thoughts of throwing my laptop outside the window out of sheer frustration. My boyfriend, Chris, told me that getting a perfect design before writing a post will not happen. Basically, I was told to stop procrastinating and whining and start writing.
So here I am. I have exactly 30 minutes of free time before I start getting ready for my first night shift of the week. I work tomorrow night too so while everyone is sleeping, I will be working. Hopefully, I will get some sleep between shifts. After Monday, I will have the next 4 days off from work, but 2 of those days will be dedicated to clinical hours. My plan is to go running when I get off work Tuesday morning. It’s not easy to run when you have been up for about 14 hours, but I have to do it. I have a 10k race with my older brother in a few weeks and I’m afraid I’ll be crawling to the finish line due to lack of training. It will be our first race together and he is getting fast!
So yes, I understand how hard it is to exercise when life gets in the way. I have 2 more weeks left of clinicals, which will free up some of my time to go trail running. The real fun begins after I graduate in December. Training promptly begins for American River 50 miler. Bear with me, though. I promise I will get some trail running in before then. Have a great evening and think of us nurses running around at 3 am while everyone else is dreaming!