What a day(s)!

It's almost Friday! Can you feel it?? I sure can! The past two days have been very stressful at work. There is so much to do and not enough hours in the day to get everything done. The worse part is that work sometimes tends to sneak into my personal life. When that happens my workouts are the ones that suffer. It's hard to be selfish and concentrate on yourself when your work life requires more of you. However, even though work can sometimes be overwhelmingly stressful I am still very grateful that God has kept me employed.

When we're not stressed out we have lots of great moments at work and I have GREAT co-workers. As a matter a fact one of the highlights of my day happened at work. It was a comment from my co-worker Christine. I was in her office and she thought she saw something on my arm, when I flexed my arm to see what she was talking about she stated that I had nice and toned arms! Ah ha! Can you imagine my excitement to hear a compliment that anything in my body is "toned"? Especially my arms, I've work hard on them. Thanks Hilarie!!!


Here's an old picture of me/my arms:

I need to take a current picture for comparison. I notice most of the change in my strength. I know I'd said it a hundred times but it is amazing what your body is capable of doing when you put it to work.

On another note, I received final instructions/information for the half marathon. Just seeing the email sitting in my inbox, I automatically got nervous. I'm really going to attempt this aren't I? Luckily, my great friend Amanda (a marathoner) is going to meet with me on Saturday and give me some tips and help me work on my pacing. I'm hoping her running fairy dust rubs off on me. I value her opinion greatly and I'm looking forward my longest run (10.6 miles), until the half marathon that is. Oh Lord, please let me finish that!
Here's the route for the half marathon. Since I don't know how to convert my route thats in a PDF format to a picture file, I just copied this route from last years race. It appears to be the same route.

Isn't that scary? LOL Well we shall see 16 days to go! I'll keep you all posted in the mean time! Hope you all had a great day today!