Well, technically we’ve been back for almost two months now! It’s been a pretty irritating summer overall, although we had a great time on our road trip. I started getting sick with a cold just as we were heading home, and then that just would not go away. I had an awful cough for about a month, and that really threw a wrench in my grand workout plans, which I’d been doing pretty good on before we left!
On top of that, the weather has been mostly crappy all summer, we’ve had some really LOUD and annoying painters working on our building for the past two weeks (which makes it hard to get work done!), our friend has been living with us for the past month until he moves to Phoenix, and our furnace needs to be put out to pasture.
Thankfully, the painters finished on our building on Friday (although they’re now sanding the one next door, but at least it’s not as loud as when it’s your building). Our friend will be moving out in a few days, too. It hasn’t been that bad with him living here. We really hardly ever see him, but our place is kinda small and it’s just weird having another person living in it. Hopefully the weather improves so we can turn off the AC and open up the windows! Between the insane heat and humidity the past two weeks, plus the painters needing us to keep the screens out of the windows, we’ve had the house all shut up with the AC running. Ben and I both hate AC for the most part, but it’s been really necessary.
I started back on my Couch to 5K plan two weeks ago, and I’m going to start Week 2 again today. I usually end up doing several iterations of Week 1. This is my fourth attempt now to do this plan! The first two times, I never made it past Week 1. Back in June, before we left for vacation, I made it to Week 2, and was hoping to be able to do it a few more times when we got back, but since I was sick for so long, I really got out of the gym habit. As in not going at all, so I had to start over again. I had hoped to do the Great Bay 5K at the end of October, but I just don’t know if I will be ready by then.
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