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In Need of Some Quiet Time

This week I found out I didn’t get a job after a phone interview and two rounds of promising in-person interviews. I’d been checking my phone obsessively for news for weeks, and while I was incredibly disappointed that day, it was a bit of a relief just to know either way.

The day before I found that out, I had a phone interview and have spent most of this week working on a proposal for another job–one that sounds right up my alley. Please send good thoughts my way!!

(Job searching is stressful. No wonder my stomach’s been bothering me.)

So I escaped to NJ for a little bit of downtime in the midst of all of this stress.

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My mom and her friend had come into the city for a doctor’s appointment, so I met them for lunch and then they kidnapped me. We went to Coliseum, because it’s right by the doctor’s office, and I had a turkey burger with avocado and sweet potato fries (apparently it’s an annual check-up because I went with them July 14 last year too, and ate the same thing), and it was delicious. I could live on turkey burgers and sweet potato fries, I think.

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For dinner, we went to the golf club. The food isn’t so great, but the ambiance is nice–when we sit outside. (When we sit inside, it feels like a nursing home.)

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Not surprisingly, there aren’t many healthy options on the menu. I am more than fine with not eating healthy sometimes–as long as it’s because I want to, not because I don’t have any other choice. I got the chicken thighs with vegetables and (an unidentified) rice and was underwhelmed as usual.

I’m glad to have this proposal done so I can focus on some fun things coming up:

What fun stuff do you have coming up that you’re looking forward to? Also, what food(s) could you live on forever?

NYC Marathon Kick-Off

This weekend, hearing Ali and Emily talking about their current training, I started longing to be training for something again. (By the way, if you don’t already read Emily’s blog, you should. She’s training for a freaking Ironman. She took an early bus back to D.C. this morning so she could get a 100-mile bike ride in for her training. Talk about inspiring.)

Now, there’s quite a few reasons training for a marathon sucks, but finishing a 20-mile run is so incredibly satisfying, not to mention finishing the damn thing.

As Ashley and I walked to brunch yesterday, she said that she thought we should call yesterday’s run the beginning of our training season for the NYC Marathon–and I loved that idea. I’ll officially start training on July 1, but I’m going to do one 6-miler a week between now and then. I’m also going to recommit to my triathlon training schedule so that I can feel as strong on July 23 as I did yesterday.

I was feeling incredibly burned out from running after running three half marathons in a month, and I’ve definitely eased back on running since then, but I am so ready to start training again.

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So I’m just going to start carb loading now. (I know I said I was going to cut back on wheat products a bit, but I’m trying get rid of some of the ones I have on hand first.)