{"id":108,"date":"2013-01-07T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2013-01-07T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:24:09","slug":"surround-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/surround-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Surround yourself."},"content":{"rendered":"

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For those of us who work at schools, today is official “back to normal day”.\u00a0 For us at AU, that means being swamped with student phone calls, campus visits and not being able to find a good parking spot.\u00a0 Gotta love the business of a college campus, wouldn’t change it for anything.\u00a0 No, not even a good parking spot.\u00a0 This week also kicks off insanity for me as I have a full training schedule at the studio and weekend grad school classes begin, YEESH!\u00a0 So, I tried to take as much time this weekend to get organized and get geared up for the next few months.<\/p>\n

Since I came down with some version of the flu last week, this weekend I also had my first couple\u00a0 workouts back after a few days off.\u00a0 I think I may have overdone it, because now my body feels like a big pile-O- jello.\u00a0 But it’s all good because jello= hard muscles.\u00a0 What, you didn’t learn that in 5th grade science? Weak.\u00a0 Anywho, it is in the winter months that I truly recognize the importance of having friends to exercise with.\u00a0\u00a0 I have an amazing group of people that I run with 2-3 days a week in the early mornings and if it were not for them (and my dog) I certainly would hit the snooze button more often.\u00a0 The funny thing is, I LOVE the mornings, like so much.\u00a0 Seeing a sunrise literally makes my day, I feel like it is God’s way of saying “Good Morning Jill, go seize the day!”.\u00a0 However, the winter months are a bit of a struggle for me so I really depend on my fitness buddies to keep me on track.<\/p>\n

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Oswego Sunrise<\/em><\/p>\n

On Sunday for example I had made plans to run maybe an easy 6 miles.\u00a0 So I got up to meet my friends Jess and Justin and turns out they wanted to do 10 miles.\u00a0 Blast.\u00a0 Of course I couldn’t be a wimp and say “but, I only wanted to do 6!”.\u00a0 So 10 miles\u00a0 we did.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Make friends that want to work out, run, lift, do yoga, etc. and it makes accountability SO much easier.\u00a0 On the days I am not running at 530am I am spending that time with my amazing Crossfit family and MAN are they an awesome group.\u00a0 We are all suckers for pain and have a blast, even during the most ridiculous workouts.\u00a0\u00a0 This morning was a CF member’s 50th Birthday, so in her honor we did 50 reps each of box jumps, pullups, KB swings, KTES, push-press, supermans, burpees & double unders.\u00a0 Do you think I would ever in my right mind do that by myself?\u00a0 H*LL NO.\u00a0 Happy 50th Birthday SUE!<\/p>\n

My point is, I love to workout.\u00a0 It brings me so much joy, so much new friendship and the empowerment that I can do anything.\u00a0 But, even I struggle in the cold & dark months.\u00a0 So my biggest advice to you is find a buddy, a group, a class, doesn’t matter what.\u00a0 Just surround yourself with people going after the same goal.\u00a0 Not to just avoid becoming a fatty in the winter, but the lifelong goal to be healthy, active and ALIVE \ud83d\ude42
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My awesome running group at the Great Western 1\/2 Marathon last year<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of us who work at schools, today is official “back to normal day”.\u00a0 For us at AU, that means being swamped with student phone calls, campus visits and not being able to find a good parking spot.\u00a0 Gotta love the business of a college campus, wouldn’t change it for anything.\u00a0 No, not even a good parking spot.\u00a0 This week also kicks off insanity for me as I have a full training schedule at the studio and weekend grad school classes begin, YEESH!\u00a0 So, I tried to take as much time this weekend to get organized and get geared up for the next few months. Since I came down with some version of the flu last week, this weekend I also had my first couple\u00a0 workouts back after a few days off.\u00a0 I think I may have overdone it, because now my body feels like a big pile-O- jello.\u00a0 But it’s all good because jello= hard muscles.\u00a0 What, you didn’t learn that in 5th grade science? Weak.\u00a0 Anywho, it is in the winter months that I truly recognize the importance of having friends to exercise with.\u00a0\u00a0 I have an amazing group of people that I run with 2-3 days a week in the early mornings and if it were not for them (and my dog) I certainly would hit the snooze button more often.\u00a0 The funny thing is, I LOVE the mornings, like so much.\u00a0 Seeing a sunrise literally makes my day, I feel like it is God’s way of saying “Good Morning Jill, go seize the day!”.\u00a0 However, the winter months are a bit of a struggle for me so I really depend on my fitness buddies to keep me on track. Oswego Sunrise On Sunday for example I had made plans to run maybe an easy 6 miles.\u00a0 So I got up to meet my friends Jess and Justin and turns out they wanted to do 10 miles.\u00a0 Blast.\u00a0 Of course I couldn’t be a wimp and say “but, I only wanted to do 6!”.\u00a0 So 10 miles\u00a0 we did.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Make friends that want to work out, run, lift, do yoga, etc. and it makes accountability SO much easier.\u00a0 On the days I am not running at 530am I am spending that time with my amazing Crossfit family and MAN are they an awesome group.\u00a0 We are all suckers for pain and have a blast, even during the most ridiculous workouts.\u00a0\u00a0 This morning was a CF member’s 50th Birthday, so in her honor we did 50 reps each of box jumps, pullups, KB swings, KTES, push-press, supermans, burpees & double unders.\u00a0 Do you think I would ever in my right mind do that by myself?\u00a0 H*LL NO.\u00a0 Happy 50th Birthday SUE! My point is, I love to workout.\u00a0 It brings me so much joy, so much new friendship and the empowerment that I can do anything.\u00a0 But, even I struggle in the cold & dark months.\u00a0 So my biggest advice to you is find a buddy, a group, a class, doesn’t matter what.\u00a0 Just surround yourself with people going after the same goal.\u00a0 Not to just avoid becoming a fatty in the winter, but the lifelong goal to be healthy, active and ALIVE \ud83d\ude42 My awesome running group at the Great Western 1\/2 Marathon last year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t