First and foremost: MERRY CHRISTMAS!

So, now that I'm graduated and a real person and everything, I guess it's about time I get back to this long neglected blog. (Getting back to my workouts too wouldn't be a bad plan either.)

Graduation....it happened. I still kind of don't believe it happened. I think I still think I'm going back to College Park in January. So it's weird trying to sort through all those emotions. I'm sad that I'm leaving all my friends. Excited about and nervous about starting a job and being in the real world.

I'm trying to enjoy the last few weeks I have of being a kid.

In workout news: I meant to post the other week, but shocker ran out of time, about this great hill work out I got in....it's called sledding. Ride down a dining hall tray on your butt, run back up the hill weighed down by lots of layers and clunky snow boots. Do that for an hour or two and you will be dead tired, and as far as I'm concerned you will have gotten in your run for the day. We haven't had many great snow storms in my time at Maryland and the one a few weeks ago wasn't anything special, but it did drop us enough snow to get a decent night of sledding in.

As far as getting back to regular running, I'm worried about shin splints....so I might start off with a lot of walking blended in with the running just until I can get my running legs back.

I promise I will start catching up on everyone's blogs soon. It's good to be back!