things just have a way...

...of working themselves out when you breathe.

I've been nonexistent on here in 2014, but since my last post in May things have been different. A really, really good type of different.

I ran the Vermont City Marathon 2-Person Relay with my sister, as planned. I had a terrible race - it was hot, I was exhausted. My sister and I ran together for 10 miles, then I was struggling so hard that she left and ran her own race.

Struggled, but finished! Team Half Crazy for the win!

This is where things get good.

All winter I had been following a blog that RunVermont was sponsoring of a marathon "rookie." "Rookie Shane" would be running the Vermont City Marathon after months of training and weekly posts on the RunVermont blog, and I read every one (I started reading because I knew the rookie from last year, I kept reading because I developed a crush on Shane...)

After the marathon, Shane posted one final post and included his email address. So I emailed him.

Now, almost exactly 5 months later...

It's good. Really, really good. We've run 3 races together (The Color Run, Vineyard Vines 10k and Harpoon Octoberfest 5k) and are partners in all things. The emptiness is filling, both by Shane and by my own self-love and feelings of contentment. Yeah, things have a way of working themselves out when you breathe...

Let's hope this blog takes new life. I want to become a yoga instructor, and teach group fitness. I want to keep running. I want to be a good partner and friend. And I want to write about it all.