Move Ins, Weight Loss and a few things in between

  Sorry for the delay in updating... things have been pretty busy in my little world.
  As most of you know, it's that time of year - kids are moving back or starting college and life is exciting and full of promise.  This is one of my favorite times of the year - the start of my job.  It's exciting and new again - each year since I get very few returners.
  We finished training last week.  I feel as though I've been going through training for the entire month - and we pretty much have.  I had staff move back in on the 31st and we started right away.  The building is in pretty good shape - mostly due to my staff as well as our amazing Physical Plant workers here on campus.
  As you can imagine, with all the excitement and business of training and move-ins, I haven't had a ton of time to run or exercise.  Thankfully they were renovating our cafeteria this summer so we had to walk a half mile to and from the new eating area twice a day.  I loved knowing that I would be walking at least 3 miles each day to get my meals.  And yes, I am aware I am probably the only person who actually loved that I had to walk in 100+ (no, not an exaggeration) weather to get to our meals and back.  I love exercise of pretty much any kind so it was a nice feeling.
  I did manage to squeeze a few runs in thanks to one of my former residents.  She's been great at texting me to ask me to run and it makes me get up and moving.  I also learned a few days ago that my SRA begged her to take me for a run because I was getting too stressed out at one point.  Have to laugh at that - my staff members watching out for me and themselves as well. :)
  Over the past month I've only  been able to run about 14 miles which makes me slightly sad.  However I am happy to say that I can definitely run 2 miles pretty easily.  Still forcing myself to run campus to conquer those hills but I'm doing great.
  I'm hoping to register for the Skirt Chaser 5k in September.  It's a night race so I'm pretty excited.  Plan is to do this race, the 10k in October, another 5k in November and we'll see how cold it is in Dec.  I'm still planning to run indoors through the winter and outside when it's an option.  I want to start thinking about a half marathon possibly next spring/summer.  However, if that's not an option, just to run a 10k straight would be a wonderful feeling.
  I am also hoping to continue updating this blog as regularly as possible.  Hopefully things will fall into the usual groove soon and I can get settled and start my life. :)