Today, I relax.

I have sat on my ass all morning.  Laptop at hand, PVR remote on the other side and just watched Judge Judy and Law & Order reruns.  (Whoever figured out syndication is a god!)  Yesterday made up for it.  Helping my in-laws move on a very hot day, and running up and downstairs, labeling items, making sure their wishes were followed, then heading to the Running Room to take my clinic out and finally got home about 10:00pm.  It was actually a good day.

My favourite part was having a chance to talk to Monick.  She is this dryly funny little Quebecois woman that I know through a running clinic I took in 2008.  She cracks me up and I hope I do the same (I seem to, she's always laughing at me.)  If there was ever a running mentor for me, she is the top of my list.  I signed up for the Scotiabank Half Marathon and have been a little nervous about getting started.  Speaking with her last night about making sure I have my training schedule on track was exciting.  I love that she just tells it like it is.  If she thinks you'll get hurt - she tells you.  If she thinks you're wussing out - she tells you.  She is truly what my husband calls me: WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get).  I love that I can talk to her or listen to her and not get intimidated.  Perhaps it's that I'm taller than her (she is barely 5' tall) or that she is just so into the training and the running, you really don't feel competitive.  That's a hard quality to pass on.  To inspire without competition.  She has taught over 50 running clinics through the Running Room, sometimes doing two clinics at the same time while still keeping her own training up.  For those that have ever run a marathon or even a half marathon, you'll realize how hard this can be - juggling a full-time job, training schedule and teaching two running clinics. Not an easy task, but something tells me, Monick doesn't mind the stuff in life that isn't easy.

She would amend the old Nike slogan of "Just Do It".  Hers would be "Shut up and get it done."  Not a bad thing.  I normally do that.  But today - I relax.  And that is my triumph for today.  Well, that and a haircut.