While on vacation, I mentioned to my aunt that the last six months of my life has largely been served by remembering the phrase, "If you want to make God laugh, all you have to do is tell him YOUR plans." She hadn't heard it before and thought that was great. Little did I know, I was in the midst of that changing my life again. For the past six months, I've been living under the assumption that I would be staying in Jersey City, working in New York City for another couple of years. I have wanted to move back south but I also wanted to stay because life has been pretty good lately. However, within minutes of returning to work after my vacation my plans were turned up in the air. The City of New York had decided not to purchase the project that I've been working on at work at this time. I kind of knew in the back of my head that this was a likely event as its not a great time for state or local governments to be purchasing things, but now it became reality.
So the next day, I got asked the infamous questions "are you willing to travel?" and "are you willing to relocate?" So my answers were yes and well to the Southeast to be closer to my family sure. The next day I had an interview with a project in Raleigh, North Carolina and was pretty much instantly staffed on it (pending a background check). So while I've been making plans to be a yankee and I have a nice routine at my gym and plans for races and everything, by mid-summer I will be living in North Carolina again. I get to travel for a couple of months while I start finding a place in Raleigh and pack up my life in Jersey City. Luckily, I got a fast start on getting my 9 races done, so I will be done with them by June 11th. I signed up for one more just to make sure that if I'm traveling during the week that I'm scheduled to do one that I have a back up race in my queue. I will get to make my goal, and next year I will be back in NYC for the marathon!
I will miss a lot about life up here although I'm actually very excited about heading back to the South. I am also a little nervous, because I have established such a healthy lifestyle up here. I workout 5-6 days a week and am running 15+ miles a week. I have instructors at my gym who I trust and know will push me when needed but tell me not to push it when I need to hear that too. I know it will be a challenge to lose the last 10 pounds with all this going on but I'm going to keep plugging away and keep blogging so all of you can help hold me accountable since you're my virtual support and it doesn't matter where I live, I can still get my virtual support! :)
On a running related note, since that is the name of this blog, tomorrow marks 4 weeks until the Brooklyn Half! I did 9 miles last weekend which is more than 2/3 of the distance so I feel confident that I can cover the distance. Tomorrow I have another 4 mile race and its supposed to rain, not looking forward to that but gotta push through. In the afternoon, I will be going to the NYC Running Show. Yes, an entire event revolving around running where I don't actually have to run! There will be vendors of course, but there's also going to be workshops on Good Running Form, Nutrition and doing events like a triathlon for the first time. Hopefully I learn a lot, and don't buy too much! :)
I hope that you have a great weekend, and thanks again for following along on my adventures.
