Home, Home on the Range

I moved back into my parents' basement on Saturday and have spent the last few days unpacking and procrastinating further unpacking. Seriously, is there anything more frustrating than knowing you just graduated from college and have no where to go but your parents' basement? Oh well, c'est la vie. Time to man-up and make enough money so I can get outta here the second I get a big-girl-job.

In the meantime, it's time to train. Chooo choooo! It's nice being back home where it is exactly one mile around our block. Running at night is much more peaceful. This town has no crime (or so little that you'd never know), so running when it's dark out is soothing, not scary like it was at school. I can go out around my block and crank out 5-6-7 laps without wondering "Gee, I wonder how far I've gone?" Just count how many times I pass my house and whammy, I'm set for mileage.

Heather mentioned that when it comes to biking, I need to learn how to spin faster. I have the muscles for big gears and heavy turning, but with the wind the way it's been in Central Illinois, I'm getting nowhere. Time to work on spinning faster. Too bad I left my bike back at school (in a safe location), so I can only work on spinning faster when I go down there.

I'm volunteering at a Girls on the Run event on Kalamazoo, MI next Thursday, so that should be fun. My sponsorship with Goody (Team StayPut) asks that we volunteer at at least one GOTR event, and I chose this one because it's the closest to Chicago that doesn't fall on a date that I already have a race. Plus I can drive farther into Michigan and visit a good friend, too. Maybe she and I will go for a run like the good ol' days...

There's a 100mile bike ride on May 24th leaving Hudson, IL early in the morning. Hopefully I can make it back there for that ride. I'd like to start logging some longer miles right about now.

Well, for now I guess it's just running and waiting for the pool to open for swimming. WOWS (Wednesday Open Water Swims) would work, as long as I can make it to Bloomington for those, and the TNTT (Tuesday night time trials) will be fun as long as I can get down there for that, too. I'm starting to wish that I had rented an apartment for the summer down there. It'd probably be cheaper than the gas money I'm about to spend...