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On milestones, endings and markers of all sorts

Hi y'all,

Remember my last post? The one on the butterflies and how very unclear it was? Well right about three days after that post a huge glittery, sparkly, bubbly and very lively bomb dropped from the sky and made a possitively good kind of mess. I needed some time to just breath, reorganize and wait for the dust to settle just so I could try to find focus in all that is new and awesome.



SO what happened? Well I got a new job and by new I mean not only did I find a new place of work...the job itself is completely new to me too even though I do realize that most of what I'm good at is part of the job. I started working as relationship manager at the Dutch ALS foundation on April first and ever since that day I have been trying to keep up with my own life. After about twenty years in education I can honestly say that I had a good run (well...a run...) but that I'm done running that race. Another chapter to the same old story would probably destroy me and even though this new job is overwhelmingly new, I am confident and I feel good.

The mere fact that I get to do so much more now than I ever could before makes me so intensely grateful. It's been quite the start and I meet new people every day and the best thing of all is that out of all the horror that is ALS I see people get up and fight. Beautiful, strongwilled and good hearted people who want to change the world one genome sequence at the time. Being part of all of that is on some levels restoring my faith in mankind.

After my sixth week at the company the glitter is now slowely coming down and for the first time in weeks I had enough peace and quiet to just sit down and map out all the other parts of my life. The new job, the running groups I am currently coaching plus my own goals in running are complicating things as rest, family and friends. The only way I know how to get it all done AND feel rested and calm is to map it out. So the first part of my own marathon schedule took me about two hours to think through but it is stuck on my fridge now. Marathon training is divided in three seperate schedules over the course of 8, 7 and 7 weeks. Each seperate schedule has at least one race in it and one virtual HRC race in it.

Next to my own marathon training I'm also coaching at least two running groups now and looking back at this week I can say that I have been coaching 4 groups in total. Mapping that out is equaly important because I want to able to coach my dad, see my mom and make time for friends too AND somewhere in the midst of all of this I am married to this crazy good looking and incredibly supportive and loving man I call my super amazing husband man and I want to be with him too. I miss the calm, cozy hours we got to spend together between August and April even though I was caught up in learning & running most of the time.

So after running after my life for six weeks I have taken back the helm and I am the one stiring the ship, There can be only one captain in my life and it is not life, It is me, So as we set sail to the finish line I am straightening my back, I am taking a deep breath and I am looking at the stars. This is it, here we go again. I know I can do this. We have been here once before so I know what lurks in the deep and I know exactly how to fight my foes. SO watch it world because here I come, Keeping it unreal and making it happen. No limits, no regrets.



That's it for now, until we read again
As always, Love Marlies


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