Currently...Life...Thoughts...My own...

These past few weeks have been quite interesting for me. As most people in my life know I, with the help of others, have persuaded another part of the company I work for to pay me more for my time and meager thoughts. That alone was the excitement for the weekend, a couple of weekends ago. Along with this comes a trip to a major city about three hours away for their annual meeting. This trip begins tomorrow morning promptly at 7 a.m. in a passenger van and lasts four days until it ends the way it started in a passenger van. It will be my first real company sponsored travel and meeting, as such, I am a little nervous about how things will go. Moreover, I will be traveling with people whom I haven't met, but for an hour during the initial interview. I will need to be a sponge and take it all in while building relationships with people, which, I have never met or even interacted with over the phone.

The second big thing in my life currently is the progression of marathon training. Until this past weekend I had completed a twenty mile run and a nineteen mile run. I added to these long runs with another twenty mile run on Sunday. Now the hardest part of marathon training is here. I can run long. I can run hard. But tell me not to run as long or as hard and it will make me ready for race day which is three weeks away and I get jittery. Yes; Gen will enjoy the extra time I have at home, but less running means I will wake in the middle of the night for no apparent reason other than I have a surplus of energy. Energy that is not necessarily productive. This restlessness will put me on edge. The whole time I will know my drug is out there, but I can't have it. I will miss the high. Some may think it is weird, but I enjoy waking up the morning after a long run, feeling sore, stumbling down the stairs to turn on the coffee maker. It is nice to not only know I have done something, but to wake up and feel it makes the pain ever so inviting.

Counting down to my last day and counting down to marathon day have become one in the same. I have my last day in my current job on Thursday, drive to Akron, OH for the marathon on Friday, run the marathon on Saturday, drive back on Sunday, and start my new job on the following Monday. Two beginnings and endings rolled into one weekend. Talk about emotions running high. Wish me luck...I will need it.