haven't sat on my soapbox in a while

Good video. It is depressing to remember how much inequity there is, even here, even now.

And thumbs up to Suze Orman!

see that??

Look at my widget. 2.15 miles today. 20:15 minutes.

Today was my first run since the doctor told me my sprain was really a small fracture. 10 days ago she told me two more weeks, but close enough. She was wishy washy about it anyway, and I'm not going back (per her saying I didn't need to), so I decided to see how it went.

1 mile in 9 minutes.
4 400s at an 8 min pace (2 min per 400) with 1 min walks between them.
AND I didn't feel like dying.

Felt good. Sweated. Am now continually looking at my foot to see if it is swelling. So far so good.

Now tomorrow, we'll see how practice goes (assuming its not swollen tomorrow, which would prevent playing this weekend...)! I have a feeling short sprints will be harder having only trained with the elliptical and pool the last month +.

The 3Day

I'm just about to the half-way point on my fundraising! I got a fabulous donation last week that has kicked me back in gear. While I've been hurt most of the summer and training as been limited, I'm starting to get excited again for this experience.

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impending fall

Things I'm looking forward to:

• Slightly cooler weather, allowing me to wear sleeves to work and maybe a smidgen more makeup than mascara
• Slightly less humid weather, allowing my hair to maintain its blow-dry more than one minute after leaving the house
• My Professional Seminar class, aka Dissertation Writing 101
• Being able to run again
• Playing a little rugby this fall (and I better really enjoy it since this is the end of the road)
• Coaching a little this fall and working on that D4 (heh) championship.
  

Things I'm on the fence about:

• My qualitative analysis class (too little math)
• Work in general
• Having to work back up to where I was, running wise, before getting hurt
  

Things I am not looking forward to:

• The commute fiasco of rugby practice when you work in the city, live in the suburbs, and somehow need to retrieve the car and dog between these
• The timing and commute fiascoes for both Princess Charming and I for the days both the team I play for and coach have practice
• The impending winter weather
• Always having (school) work hanging over my head (work work, I can generally ignore after my evening email peruse).
• The cost of rugby travel
  

goals for the weeks

I really should number these things.

Last week was a big fail.

Kitchen paint mistakes clean up - Nope
Paint den ceiling -Its 2/3 done.
Lift 3 times - just 2
3 cardio sessions - hm. I can't really remember. 1 I think, plus 2 30 min walks with the dog.
A positive visit to the podiatrist that clears me for rugby camp this weekend - 2 more weeks till I'm allowed to run, and even then I'm suppossed to "take it easy".

So moving on to this week...
I'm aiming for the same - kitchen cleaning, paint den, lifting and some cardio - but am going to (watch) practice Tues/Thurs night, so we'll see. I do have all weekend free so maybe that'll help :)

3 weeks till classes start. Eek.

rugby camp

camp + small fracture from 7 weeks ago = lots of time sweating in the sun but not doing a damn thing.

Its really bizarre to spend two full, long days in rugby land and not be sore. (Actually, my shoulders are a tad tight, as I got to participate in lineouts yesterday, but I am nowhere near as tired as I should be).

12 more days till I'm cleared to run again. But can I "take it easy" as Dr. W told me to? Did she really believe me when I told her I still wanted to do the Philly Half in November AND play this fall? Did she realize I was serious when I told her I wanted to play in at least a couple of games? I'm not sure, and not 100% sure I want to know :)

Not related to me, about 8 of my college kids came to camp and did fabulously with all the senior side players, so I'm really excited about their season (and their impending D4 "national" championship).

things I have issues with

Being on email at 12:30 am and 7 am and again at 8:47 pm tonight when I still make a couple thousand less than I did at 23.

Remind me why I quit engineering?