Just Plodding Along

I have a pretty kick ass job. While there is a bit of retail weirdness involved sometimes but for the most part the people I deal with on a regular basis are my kinda people...runners! The best thing about my job is being the run coach for the store. I basically have a giant group of people who are my running buddies.  Some of the best things about coaching: 1) Seeing people get more confident in their abilities over time 2) Getting to run with all types of people 3) Getting to run all over the El Paso area 4) Getting runners started with our couch to 5k programs 5) Having couch to 5k runners progress from run/walk to completing a 10k to training for a half marathon. It is pretty great to have people stick with me for multiple training programs. 6) Starting new running programs 7) Living vicariously through them while I am not running I realized last week how much I enjoy running with my training groups when I couldn't. I feel super frustrated when...

Yesterday three very exciting things happened. 1) I went on my second run with my new fun run group. There are only three of us and we run/ walk for about a half an hour and it is super fun to run with other people and nerd out about running. I took Max this time since it is short and he had a lot of fun I think (going off the extreme tail waging and number of people that petted him).I think I will use this group to build up his endurance so we can go on some shorter runs together. 2) I finally got to use my new big camera lens that I got for my birthday because..... 3) It was D's graduation from Officer Candidate School  It was a really nice ceremony and D was pretty excited to be done with this phase of training. There are several more phases but you know, one step at a time. Some important people spoke, awards were presented, the candidates got their certificate and shook the hands of other important people and then bam 2nd Lieutenant time.  Their rank o...