On my way :)

My swim lesson the other day was SO GOOD! I got so much out of it -- I'm really excited! I felt a little out of my element when he had me starting off holding onto the side of the pool while sticking my face in the water and blowing air bubbles. That's about the time I was thinking "I'm 21 and just taking swim lessons NOW?" but I've always had some crazy fear of deep water even though I never would really admit it. So now it is, and there I was blowing water bubbles:) But soon after, we moved to me using the kickboard with both hands and just working on my breathing, to using one hand to swim and one hand on the kick board, to actually doing laps. We then moved to arm placement -- all in 45 minutes:) My coach even said that he think's I'll be ready, or really on my way to a triathalon in about 5 weeks so we decided  on 5 lessons which will be one a week. I can actually already tell a difference in my body! I love it, almost as much as running. I'll get there one day I'm sure but since I'm still new at it and I still tend to choke on water from time to time -- it'll just take a bit of getting it down. I've also been doing my 30 minutes of swimming about every other morning. I would have swam the day before yesterday but it was pouring when I got up. It was yesterday too, but I decided to suck it up and go swim (it wasn't lightning) and lucky for me -- the rain let up for those 30 minutes I swam!:) Yay!!:)

Work has continued to be crazy. Maybe even CRAZIER. I've been doing saucier and like yesterday, I bounced back between saucier and working in pantry on the line. 9-10 hour days on your feet without a break are a little exhausting. I fully intended to go out with my friend Ryan from work last night, but I was just too pooped and my head hurt even after my nap:/ I didn't even get to fit in a run! This morning I got up to go run 6 miles, but it was 5:30 when I was about to run and my Mom freaked me out a little bit about running so early even though I do it in Lubbock all the time so I opted for the gym and treadmill to find out it was closed!:( Maybe I'll get off early enough where I can run after work and before heading to Austin for my sister's bbq -- but I doubt it unfortunately:( Today may have to be an off day by default which wouldn't be awful since tomorrow I'm planning on running 6 miles at Zilker Park before going to the Whole Foods in Austin and coming back down to San Antonio. This way, my foot isn't over worked.

So yesterday, I created my tentative marathon pre-training training plan. Since my plan is 16 weeks long, I have to train to get to the 9 miles the long runs begin at. How I did this was I made a little calender for the month of July designating what I need to do every day. However, I will simply highlight what I have done even it if it is from another day in the week. I feel like when you're doing something so strenuous, you need to do what your body feels like it can do therefore this gives me the freedom to run my long runs when I feel able, rest when I need it and do intermediate work outs on those other days. I also created a food log:) We'll see how that goes since I'm hardly at home and with being at work all the time I can't really write stuff down -- but it's just to help me cut out the unnecessary snacking that goes on while I'm at work (unfortunately that's when I need my log the most--but I think if I visualize having to write it down later on, that'll help me not eat it. It's worked before!:)).

I'm also going to start my personal training certification here in a couple weeks. It's more expensive than I anticipated but I think it'll definitely be worth it in the long run. It'll take about 4-6 weeks so that's perfect for the amount of time I have remaining in the summer. I contacted the hospital I want to work at about what certifications are accepted but haven't heard anything back yet. I'll call again soon just to make sure! Hope you have a great weekend and happy 4th!:)