A few milestones…

Two very important milestones occurred in my life today. Ready?

• I traveled 7 miles slower than I ever have before.
• Graphics that I created were on national tv.

Ok, I’ll start with the 7 mile thing. As you know, we as a family are training to run in a race at the end of April. I’m planning on running a half marathon. That’s huge for me, because before last summer I really never ran at all. I vaguely remember running around the block twice in 3rd grade, but that doesn’t count. I never really ran “for fun” until last July. However, I’ve come to respect feeling that jogging gives me, and I’m really glad to be training for this half-marathon. It’s also really helpful that the rest of the fam is training as well, because they all serve as a bit of encouragement. Here’s where they’re going to laugh at me, because my training plan had me run 7 miles today, while they’ve been running over 8 miles for a few weeks now. I may have “customized” my training plan a little bit.

Regardless, after taking a much needed week off from exercise, I just completed 7 miles, and it feels wonderful. So what if it took me almost 90 minutes. I think it’s safe to say that this is the slowest I’ve ever traversed a 7 mile stretch. Even rush hour in Atlanta moves faster than that, and I’m pretty sure that my sailboat was faster than that, wind or no wind.

Kinda creepy pic of me after my 7 mile jog, seconds before I started cramping.

Ok, so bullet point number two. I’m still somewhat convinced that most of my family and friends really have no clue what I get paid to do. It’s ok, sometimes I’m not really sure myself. But today at the Auburn/Alabama basketball game, some of my handywork was proudly displayed on national television. I could make an argument that some of my stuff was seen at last year’s Final Four, but I didn’t create much of that. I created the “Gymnastics Next Meet” graphic you see on the LED scorer’s table…

This is one of the 15 graphics I created for today’s game on CBS. I mean, I know it’s not as impressive as Anna’s “Scholastic Achievement Award”, but I thought it was kind of cool.

Love y’all…hope everyone has a great week!