Number Six

Hey everyone. Jamie competed in his first ever trail-running half-marathon today in Charlottesville. The course criss-crossed the Blue Ridge Parkway several times so it was quite hilly and rocky. Jamie had decided that he would not push himself too hard since the coarse was tricky and unfamiliar. But, that said, he still came in sixth!! And he won his age category!! There were 75 runners running the half-marathon and 130 running the full marathon.

He said that he enjoyed the whole run (crazy man!) and he'd like to keep doing this sort of thing. So it looks like I may be headed for the life of "runner's crew" -- meaning I travel around the country and catnap in the car during races, making sure I've stocked up on ClifBars and bananas first. I'm really looking forward to it. :)

In other news, I resigned from Reese Engineering on Tuesday, accepted a job at Penn State, turned it down on Wednesday and asked for my job back on Thursday. Since I hate change, it's been a bit of a crazy week for me. It all turned out well, though, in that it helped me figure out what I want to do, as the next step, and I was able to communicate that to my supervisors at Reese. . . and they are supportive about it. So the next step is that I'll be starting massage therapy school in October. Jamie wants to open a running store in State College in the next year and a half, and I've wanted to do massage therapy for a while now, so it looks like we could combine our passions into a really great resource for runners and other athletes (and the best part is that we could work together!). I also found out that Reese has thought about having an in-house massage therapist as part of the fitness room. So maybe I could even stick around at Reese part-time once I'm through with classes. They are letting me stay on full-time until classes start, and then very part-time while I'm in school. Thank you, Lord, for working that mess out!