Tender Mercies

Marshall asked me to be his personal trainer so that he has the motivation to get into shape for ROTC this fall. With his second shift work schedule, including overtime many nights and working as an occasional handyman, he doesn't have lots of time/energy to do much else than provide.  I was pretty excited when he asked me to help him out. So after we spent about an hour at our apartment's gym the other day, we returned home and I started to prep lunch. When I peeked into the living room, this is what I saw. Enough said.  I think I wore him out. Can't wait for next session!

I love running. My summer running schedule has really changed a lot from what I was planning on earlier this spring, due to a whole host of things including a knee injury in early May and lots of traveling to skating events. I felt a LOT better after the race!  Either way, I am pleased with my efforts to stay active and healthy, even if that means supplementing my running with swimming, strength training, walking, hiking, and biking (and actually, I highly recommend varying the training you do, so that you can work all your muscles and prevent injury and boredom). Marshall did awesome, and came in at 20:11 and second place overall! Saturday was Ft. Wainwright's annual Ice Cream Skedaddle 5K , where they feed you ice cream after you run. Not a bad deal, right? The other awesome thing is that it is free.  I wrote the date on our calendar right when I found out about it and I was really excited because I would actually ...