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When the going gets tough

Hi y'all

NEW DONATIONS ARE IN ON MY FUNDRAISING PAGE!! THANK YOU GUYS!!! After a complete week of working and keeping up with my schedule I think I am either completely crazy or insanely awesome. So for no good reason at all I'm inclined to stick with the latter. So what has been up? Well...two short runs, 2 long runs, work, hospital stuff and finding out what I have to do in order to complete my admission proces for my Educational Doctorate. Yes...I want to do that. But math and me are no friends and I have to take the GRE exam and guess what? Quantative reasoning is a huge part of that. However if I can run 34 km in a week (and I thought I couldn't that either) than I must be able to fix that math issue I have in 3 months right?

Now the runs this week were challenging. Last thursday I had to run 13km and on km 6 I realized that I really really really needed a toilet so I turned around, took a shortcut, ran home (Sprinted is more like it but did you know that makes it even worse??), said Hi to my nextdoor neighbour that looked at me and just blurted out WOW, ran up the stairs to our appartement, pauzed my watch at km 8 and well...

Ran the last 5km feeling a lot better. Made me wonder though if this was going to be a long run thing because I really do not want to do stuff that like this when I'm running the hills of San Francisco. However today's long run went smashingly. The one where I started thinking that I must be somewhat or maybe even completely crazy. At km 11 I looked at my watch and thought:'Wow I only get to enjoy this feeling for 3.5 more kilometres. That is not long enough. It will be over too soon.'Yeah...how is that for sickness right? Luckily reality kicked in at marker 14 and all I could think was

I didn't though. I made it home in one piece. Okay so I do have some chafed spots on my body and blisters on my toe but hey those are my battle scars and I wear them with pride. With this week done and over with and another one coming up tomorrow the combination of working, running and dealing with everyday madness is getting more challenging. But I am sure I can pull it off. Swimming a few laps on friday and hanging in a herbal hot tub afterwards is a good start for a relaxing weekend. I can do this. I might be slow as a turtle dragging through peanutbutter however I am doing this and I feel good about this week's runs.

Well that's it for this week, stay strong and keep the faith. You are capable of greatness.Until we read again.

As always, Love Marlies

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