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Today I head back to work again after a little more than 100 days of “summer break” (just like last year!). To be fair, I’ve sat in an office for 15ish hours a week, and worked another 10ish at home, so I didn’t get the summer off completely, but it almost felt like it. I can’t wait to head back to work, as I really love my job. I’m excited to go back to eating lunch with my co-workers, seeing my clients (it’s so fun to see my schedule filling up already with many familiar faces!), and to get back to teaching my barre class. But with all of that comes losing my lazy mornings of reading blogs while watching the today show, losing my long bike rides (I’m likely not do much more over 20-25 the next few months), time at the pool, and the warm weather. Summer is by far my favorite season, and while I really like fall and spring too, nothing beats the magic of summers for me 🙂
This summer was an awesome time for me to focus on building up my endurance on the bike, and I’m sad that I’ll lose some of that again. I’ve had some awesome summer rides, like these: Bike Ride To Mackinac Island, Metric Century Ride, Being Chased By Dogs, Take Me Home Country Roads,Cornfields and a 50 mile PDR, and A Muskrat and 21.5 miles.
I’ve spent so many fun weekends at Melissa’s house, running, floating in the pool, celebrating my birthday, going to Keith Urban, eating out, and having so many awesome conversations. I’m really going to miss living there part time 🙂
This summer I’ve had extra free time to read some awesome books. Books like The Fault In Our Stars, Gone Girl, Sharp Objects, The Lost Childhood, Elizabeth Smart’s “My Story”, and many others.
Reading In The Sunshine
I’ve had a lot of great runs, like: Indy Women’s Half Marathon, Fourth of July Freedom Run, and My Accidental Half Marathon— and of course one of my best training runs to date!
RnR Chicago
Neon Dash
Indy Women’s Half Marathon
My job has been absolutely fantastic this summer, and I’ve loved the projects that I’ve gotten to work on, and to be able to give them 100%. These projects will continue, but must take a bit of a back burner to my every day clients that I’ll start seeing. Of course there are SO many things that I wanted to get done this summer that I didn’t, but it’s been the most productive summer I’ve had since grad school.
I’m thankful for all the new friendships that have been developed over the summer, for all the lessons learned, and for all the truly fantastic times.
Now it’s your turn to share! What’s been one of the highlights of your summer? What do you most look forward to at your job?
I love all of these memories! I’m so proud of all that you’ve accomplished this summer – so many new feats with training and biking – and of course, I’m endlessly grateful that we’ve gotten to spend so much time together! Couldn’t live this life without YOU!
Thanks! I’m SO so glad I had you around this summer. It would’ve been lonely with my stacks of magazines if I hadn’t 🙂 Seriously though- it’s been one of the most fun summers of my life thanks to you!
It looks like you have had a fantastic summer! No wonder it is your favorite season. Summer is by far my favorite time of the year as well. The highlight of my summer was getting into triathlon and working to get better on the bike and in the pool. I know what you mean about the cycling season coming to an end and losing the endurance that you have worked hard to build. I will be spending many hours on the trainer this winter trying to maintain that level of endurance. Do you have a trainer? Best of luck as you go back to work. I will have a few weeks off in September before heading back to work at the end of the month. Looking forward to it!
I do have a trainer, and I have no idea what I’d do without it! I will typically do 20-28 mile rides on it throughout the winter as my long rides, so it’s not like I’ll lose ALL endurance. It’s just not quite the same though 🙂