I could use one of these. Or perhaps three.
Experimenting with the training.
Hic.
Ooops.
Thank you for all your encouraging words about Blue! I'd like to say I have taken them all on board, and am now in a purple patch, but this week has been a bit too much of an emotional wrestling match to take any sensible advice on board. Although, I would say I am now a lighter shade of blue. Like sky blue, rather than stormy blue. Maybe, something like that.
But still a bit shaken.
So, most of you know I guess that I moved up to Leeds last September to pursue my dream of becoming a dietitian. I didn't want to move from London, but frankly didn't have any other option, and decided I had to take a chance. It was definitely worth it - I have made some brilliant friends here and I love my course (really I do, really, just not right at this exact moment after my exam yesterday - but I've been told this feeling passes, how quickly I'm unsure), but I've always found it difficult being away from my loved ones from before, and with all the travelling around to make things work, I've never really felt settled here or like it's really become my home. So, having spent Easter in London, I spent last weekend distressed about coming back to Leeds to do all of our assessments. Then, as always I suppose, you have to realise that something is about to end, before you realise that you did actually like more than you thought you did. So now I am equally distressed about leaving Leeds, because we're almost done with uni this year, and next year will be all different as we will all be scattered around on placement - I will miss my course, and my coursemates, and my friends, and running club! Oh! Sometimes I wish that my boyfriend, my family, my friends weren't all over the place, but.....
"My home is not a place, it is people." - Lois McMaster Bujold
...pretty much sums it up.
So on Wednesday I went to my last running club for a while. Sob :-( Wednesday wasn't a great day (it was before my exam, and I realised how uneasy I felt), and I hate saying goodbye to people so wasn't looking forward to running really. But, I left uni and put on trainers to go. Walking past the arena - they were giving out free Galaxy bars. The sun came out. This, I thought, surely this is a sign of good times coming! And, running was amaaaazing! We drove up to the Harewood Estate and did an 8 mile loop around the estate and Eccup reservoir.
Absolutely beautiful, by far and away the best run I have done in Leeds - gorgeous scenery, good company, evening sunshine. And, to top it off, as we got back to the cars and shut the doors, there was a flash of lightening, a crack of thunder, and the heavens opened.....boom!
Then it was back to the pub for a planning meeting for the Lyke Wake race in July, and a few farewell drinks with CAR - by far the best running club in Leeds! I will take my vest to London - come on the GREENS!!!
And I am feeling excited again now about a new challenge - new maps, new route, new plan -this is what I need :-D
Focus
Believe
Work
Achieve
Repeat
Repeat
Repeat
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