Those of you who are UNH Alumni or Students are no doubt getting that my title is referring to the University Mascot and then again those of you with daughters may get a High School Musical reference and then again perhaps my Sierra Club fans will be thinking about nature and well really I was timing the UNH Alumni 5K Race and since this took up the most of my day I figured it would make a good title for today's post. It is also my 12th anniversary and while that evokes a whole different set of memories I will stick with the Wildcat reference.
We arrived at UNH at 7:00am on this sunny COLD Saturday morning. One would think that a college town with the party reputation that UNH has would be sound asleep at 7am on a Saturday but the place was humming. Our first site upon entering town??? A group of students surrounding a keg drinking in front of one of the frat houses..."Go Wildcats!!" Homecoming is serious business in Durham NH....let the games begin. I am getting very proficient at eating a good breakfast before timing races...it requires an early awakening but I am streamlining that too. I had packed a veritable quagmire of healthy snacks, for the morning...I was ready...and I needed to be...the 400 people who ran the race, requiring TWO finish line chutes which were operated by 12 AWESOME college students took a LOT of emotional and physical energy...it all worked out just fine and the race was successful. I am learning alot and I like that..the consummate student I guess...too bad I can't afford to keep taking my graduate classes but that is another story for another post...I learned alot today...
When I came home I sat on the couch and stayed there...the longer I sat the heavier I became. This movie came on called "Catch Me If You Can" starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a con artist/check forger. It is based on a true story and I got drawn in because it was just so amazing how he could create these checks and cash them and take on all of these different persona's and travel all over the world. He was haunted of course by his painful childhood memories and hunted by an obsessed FBI agent (for whom he later worked and is still friends with today)...so his life wasn't stress free...but still, there are times when I just want to run away and others when I wish I could be someone else... we are trapped by our choices we humans....little teeny insignificant choices...that can somehow change your life...this is where I am today.... so my typical big giant salad with grilled chicken worked it's magic as my restaurant meal and I cheated once again with that blasted Pumpkin Beer but hey...it's a big day right???
In spite of how exhausting today was, and the fact that I have to get up and do it again tomorrow I am building strength and confidence from my resolve with the food. I knew that I could mostly do it (like being mostly dead all day) but not sure that I could (or would) totally do it and I am quite sure that the beer takes away the totally anyway...but I have reached across a bowl of candy corn for my keys, I have moved those little tiny cupcakes aside to grab a handful of almonds and I have bypassed cans of soda for another bottle of water...and I am braver in the gym. Oh..a new favorite food...Pumpkin Squash!!!!! So yummy:) I am planning on warming it up for breakfast...woohoo...go Wildcats!!!
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