County Music Marathon & 1/2 are put on by the Rock n Roll series and Brooks. 

They are the bet races ever! Especially the one in Nashville!

To give everyone an idea of what kind of day it has been...I just got done "recording" a 20 minute webinar teaching our summer staffers how to use a project planning program that one of my co workers made. I thought I did a great job...until I went to watch it. I forgot to turn on my mic.

So, now I am trying to work up the motivation to go running. In exactly 10 days (whoa - I didnt realize it was that close literally until I typed it) Jimmy will be flying down from Baltimore to run the Nashville Half Marathon with me! This is going to be Jimmy's first time to Nashville and I am MORE than excited to be his tour guide.

It is kind of funny to think about how I live three (almost) completely different lives. This is due to the fact that I took a lot of random chances...which is kind of funny becuase I am not exactly the random chance kind of person. Usually I carefully calcuate all of the risks in a decision and expect the worst...so when anything better than the worst happens, it was a success!

The first random decision I made was to attend Lock Haven University. I had never even heard of the Pennsylvania State School until I attended a field hockey camp the summer before my junior year of high school. When the coach told me she wanted me on her team I had to decide between playing a Divison I sport at a small school, or going to a big school down south. Because I loved playing field hockey I decided to go to the little school in the Appalachian Mountains. Since I had never heard of it, my friends and classmates in high school definitely had never heard of it either. It didnt help to have a high school right around the corner named Loch Raven. Yea, there were jokes.

During the spring of my sophomore year of college I realized that I needed a summer job...and I didnt want to work the same 7-3:30 job I had worked the two summers and winters before. That's when I thought about the possibility of applying for ASP summer staff. I headed to a Staff Applicant Weekend in Philly, PA...once again all by myself. I met some amazing people, and to this day, I have no idea how I got hired.

So, I have my hometown life in Balitmore, Maryland. I have my athletic college life in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. And, I have my construction ASP life in Johnson City, Tennessee. My hockey teammates have never seen me hit a nail, and my ASP freinds have never seen me hit a ball. It is a rare occasion when my different lives will collide, but it is always a beautiful and interesting experience.

I am so excited for Jimmy to visit becuase he rarely gets to see me live in my ASP environment. He did get to come up to Lock Haven and got hang out with my field hockey teammates...but he hasnt gotten the full Tennessean experience yet. I cant WAIT!

Time to update my iPod and find my running shoes!

MISS ya LOVE ya MEG.