Another week...

The first full week in my office is over.  It went well.  Lots of meetings, appointments, and events.  I have lots of homework for when I'm in the office, plus trying to get to know my co-workers and volunteers.  It's a crazy two weeks before heading back to the training center to go over my homework.  It's the first time I've been employed where I've had homework assignments.  It's kinda strange...

I have noticed I'm tired at the end of the day.  Like really tired.  Like falling asleep at 10:00 p.m. tired.  Which is totally unlike me.  I'm a night person and can't usually fall asleep until close to midnight, if not later.  Guess this whole being out all day and meeting new people takes a lot out of you! 

The bigger issue to the sleep thing is the lack of running thing.  I'm having a hard time getting motivated to come home and run.  I get home and want to crash.  Last Monday was fine because I had off for President's Day, so I got my 4 mile run in during the day.  The issue I had the rest of the week was being tired and oh..the snow.  I get nervous running at night after it snows around here.  People have a tendency not to clean their sidewalks and I'm not keen on the idea of running on sidewalks with 1"-2" of snow and ice.  Ugh.  I really need to push myself to run on the treadmill for a little while at least.  It's better than nothing.  This week's goal is to run twice...whether it be outside or on the treadmill.

And for some reason, this week was foodapoluzza.  I don't know why, but I kept eating crap all week.  I ate more than I should have and exercised less than I should have.  I was this close to not bothering.  Why would I want to see a gain at the end of a trying week?  Well, I weighed-in anyway and low and behold, a .6 pound loss.  WHAT?!?  Crazy!  I was very, very happy.

Which brings us to Saturday morning and my long run.  The training plan stated 7 miles and off I went!  And still, 2 full days after the 2" of snow we received, people still hadn't shoveled their walks.  Ugh.  Makes running much more difficult.  But, I got my run in...not as fast as I would have liked, but eh.  I think I started off a tad bit too slow.  Must try to start a bit faster next time.  My next long run is 10 miles.  Eep!