The saying goes that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Well, this March hasn't been much to write home about. It's been very inconsistent weather-wise, that's for sure, but not too bad. Warm enough to not need a jacket most days, even warm and sunny on some days - I've done two bike rides to Moscow this month!! =D I've really missed biking. It will take some re-adjustment to get back into biking shape, but I will get there. I'm so excited for sun and warmth!
A couple months ago I registered for a 200-mile overnight relay run. O.O I still haven't figured out what possessed me to do that, but I did, so now I've got to deal with it. There will be twelve of us on the team, and we each take three legs. My legs really aren't bad at all, but for a non-runner like me, well, they seem a little bit intimidating. However, I just keep reminding myself that if I want to a half-ironman, I need to be able to run a half-marathon AFTER swimming a mile AND biking 56 miles. Sooo....I really need to suck it up and get moving. Despite the intimidation factor, I'm really excited for this relay. I think it is going to be awesome, tiring, thrilling, satisfying, encouraging, and exhausting. I will probably nap for a full day when I finish. But it will be so worth it! And we run along the water for a lot of it, so it will probably be pretty. Hopefully I don't get lost...
I'm planning to move into Sarah's next month. Eek! I feel like time has really flown by. I've barely wrapped my mind around it being February, and March is almost over already! I still need to purge my things....I'll get to that. There's always tomorrow, right? ... Until there isn't. Oh well. I will get settled over there sometime, somehow.
I joined a book club recently, which has been fun. It's started me reading some books that I wouldn't have bothered with otherwise. They are good books, they just don't capture my attention right away, which is usually what a book has to do to get me to actually take the time to read it. But this just adds to the number of books I'm currently reading. ..hehe.. My co-workers make fun of me because I can pretty much bring a new book to work every day of the week. I just tell them that, as with many things in my life, I have be distracted enough to focus. I know, I know, it doesn't make sense to most people, but it's just how my brain works. For instance, in college, I could only study effectively at a coffee shop. Put me in my house or a library, really anywhere quiet, and I would be waaaaay too distracted to even know what I was supposed to be doing. Put me somewhere noisy like a cafe or coffee shop and I will zoom through my homework. Writing a paper? I needed to have a movie playing in the background. Not music; a movie. So anyway, with books, I'm always reading two or more. Right now I'm only readying three, but I will be rectifying that shortly. :)
If you have any recommendations for really good books please comment! I am hungry for new literature. I'm pretty eclectic in my tastes, really my biggest pet peeve I can think of off the top of my head is that the writing style is excellent. I mean, they don't have use ten syllable words in every sentence, but...think of anything that sounds more intelligent than Twilight. :P
