Winter break. Winter break. Winter break.
It's been super so far. This last weekend was the first weekend in a long while that I after I woke up late, I read for a little while (a 'fun' book), felt a little heavy in the eyelid and just went back to sleep, without even getting out of bed. It was pretty fantastic. I really do plan on reading Lauire Garrett's 'Betrayal or Trust' (one of our books for Foundations of Public Health) from start to finish this break. It was really that interesting that I want to read the whole thing. However, I'm not going to lie. I will read it someday, but after I finish the book I'm currently reading, I'll probably just watch a lot of tv. I have many, many esisodes of all kinds of things to catch up on from Netflix. Right now, I'm watching Season 2 of Rome. It's so, so good.
I went back to St. Louis for X-mas which is always fun. My brother's finally 21 so he came out with me. He's the coolest guy I know. My biggest fear is driving in the snow but fortunately my route didn't hit any bad weather unlike the trek from here to Wisconsin. For those of you considering moving from temperate climates, beware of the scary snow drives.
And I made a big decision last week. I have decided to do my first marathon. I've only been running again for the last 8-9 months and I certainly don't have any really long runs under my belt but I'm up for the challenge! There's a really great website that had training suggestions I'm glad I've read. I would have gone about training all the wrong ways. The longest run it suggests before the marathon is "only" 20 miles. I would have thought I would have wanted to make sure I could do the whole thing a few times before attempting to run one. But hey, Hal Higdon knows way more than me. Here's the public health part- my coworkers and I are all motivating each other and two other ladies are going to train with me. And we've signed up for 5K's and duathalons and stuff to keep us on track. I'm pretty exctied. I've never gotten high before from a sporting good store but now I think I will salivate over new running shoes that will help ward off shin splints and really nice sports bras.
I'll keep you posted as I will probably be whining about sore legs.