NI HAO CHINA!

Okay, so we finally have the date and its March 3rd! Its exciting that we have a target date...but scarey that its only four weeks away!!! YIKES! This means (for those of you who get to stay here in the USA) that our container that will bring all of the stuff we are taking to CHINA basically needs to go out in the next week or the next two weeks at the latest. I'm surprised that I am so calm about the whole thing. Either I am in a really good place mentally at the moment or I am in too much pain to freak out - which I'll get to later in my post.

Never mind. Might as well change subject here. My body is rebelling against this crazy idea I had to train for a half marathon. I think it thought I was kidding and would quit after a week or so. Well its been two weeks now and so far so good. I'm completing my runs at night after the kiddos go down for bed (no worries, I'm running on the treadmill for now -not leaving them alone here of course). But my mind is starting to try and talk myself out of this. Why am I doing this? I'm not really going to run a half marathon, at least not here because I'll be out of the country. Do they have half marathons in China? I keep hurting myself, like tripping over the bed and bruising the top of my good foot; my knee is locking up, especially at night; I dropped a razor on top of my toe and have a huge cut;and the bottom of my bad foot is split. Also my forearms are hurting which I know is related to the runs, but I have no idea why. I've also discovered a muscle on the side of my leg that I never knew I had. Its not looking good people.

Still it feels good to mark the run off my running chart and there is accomplishment there. I remember trying to run with my friend Kristen in college and I couldn't even make it around the block. I ran a total of 7 miles this week, which mentally makes me think I've surpassed my 10K I ran in October (even though I realize that I ran the 6 miles in one day not over a week). Oh well whatever works.