The Final Countdown

One week from now I'll be starting my more intense training schedule for the Summer Breeze 10k in August.  Not only will school be out for my daughter, but our gym membership gets turned onto the family plan, my Summer Meltdown Challenge Group Starts as well as my Hal Higdon training schedule.  It's a lot of change but I'm going to take it in stride (no pun intended) and get the work done so that come August 1st I'll be running my 10k without stopping and beat my last year's race time.

My daughter graduates from preschool on wednesday.  Her school is one of two events during the week that he have on our schedule and without that I'll have a pretty much open schedule to train, but that also means I'll have the two kids to take care of 24/7.  Having my daughter outside the house at school for nine hours a week doesn't seem like that many hours, but add those nine hours back into the schedule and suddenly I feel like I can't entertain my own kids.

That's why the gym membership turning on is so important.  With the membership I have free daycare (as long as I don't leave the gym) for two hours a day.  I've already decided that we are going to go to "the play room" for two hours so that MomMe can workout then I'll throw them in the pool for an hour so that they can get really tired out.

The daycare will leave me time to concentrate on the Summer Meltdown Challenge Group I'm leading this summer AND time to work on my 10k training.  Having a training group, even if not all of them are doing the same exact training as me hopefully will keep me on track to not only lose a few pounds that I need to get rid of, but will also help them see that if we all cheer eachother on we can accomplish anything.

It's a lot of change to happen at once.  My only reservation is that my 2 year old has become a MomMe's boy and flips out when I leave him.  Gym Daycare is the first step in having him let go since he will start preschool in the fall.  If he doesn't stay in daycare for the time I need him to be I can see that my summer is going to be troubled, so with seven days to go until the changes start I'm praying to whatever gods will hear me that they'll let him have fun at the gym and allow me to "do work" as they say.  It not only will make me a happier healthier person but I think it will be good for the kids to have something to do every day that involves other kids to play with, good exercise, and most importantly FUN!