LEVEL 8!!!

I did it AGAIN!!! Made my level up goal by the time I set it for :)
This is really starting to become a habit...and I'm LOVING it!

Went for a run after work today since the weather was BEAUTIFUL! I took Buds on a walk since he still isn't back to his full health, but I took him on a 20 minute walk before my run.
Stats were:
3.54 miles in 37:16 (including warm-up and cool-down); 5K time was 30:11; workout pace (w/o warm-up and cool-down) averaged at 9:09/mile, and I burned 393 calories!
It felt absolutely AWESOME :)

And in the end, I rallied up 420 points on Fitocracy...which pushed me over by 8 points to LEVEL 8!
So now I have 1744 points until Level 9, and I think I'll be able to make that by next Sunday; that averages out to 5 good workouts around 350 points each. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to manage that now! It would've seemed daunting about 2 weeks ago, but now I feel like it's a decent goal to set! :)


In other news, Buddy is feeling better but still not fully recovered from his belly-ache, I got a GRE practice book so I can start studying for that little gem, and work is still going as great as ever :) Still waiting for an interview for the Behavioral Husbandry position...so I've just gotta keep my fingers crossed!!!


Things have been really rough lately...there's a lot of baggage in my life that not everyone on Facebook needs to know about every little detail...but it's there. And it's been really hard to deal with, but that's all a part of the challenges of life and the healing process that follows.

I read a quote today from one of my magazines that said, "You don't know strength until strength is the only choice you have."
I've definitely experienced that in the last few months, and I can't say that it's only going to get better from here; but I can say that now I know I'm strong enough to deal with whatever God has planned for me in my life :)