Final.

With graduation coming up and this being my last semester as an undergraduate student, you would think that the semester was going to be easy. There's this term known as "senioritis", and I never really related to it my first semester a senior. I have different opinions now. It's crazy how busy I am with the organizations I co-founded; which did really well this semester, not to toot my own horn. And now with finals week coming close, a lot of my professors decided to team up against the student body and make a bunch of projects and assignments due at the same time. I;m dying and more than ever want to run. But if I want to finish the semester strong, I have to dedicate all my time to school. At least for the past two weeks I have. I'm incredibly stressed and I guess that just goes to show that it's hard to manage your time as a college student to find time to do the things you want to do. Hopefully during the summer I have a lot more time to work out and get back in shape like I've been trying to do this whole semester! And hopefully I don't have to just keep saying that I want to make time and actually find the time. As for now, time to keep writing for my 10 page research paper due at 11:59 P.M. tonight! D:

How do they do it?!

Sometimes I get sad when i hear about how much people are able to run. I think about when I was in high school and had all the time in the world to do whatever I wanted to, without a worry of any other responsibilities. Yeah, you could say school was one of them. But it was never something that I had to invest a lot of time into. Therefore, I had all the time I wanted to work out and play sports. Working out two to three times a day was a regular thing. Run four miles, go to soccer practice and then head to the weight room to pump some iron! Like nothing. Sports were a huge part of my life. Now I can barely handle to run a couple of days out of the week. I can hardly find the time! And honestly, when I do have some time to relax, I would rather take a nap or watch a little bit of T.V because of how tired I am all the time from work and school and the organization.
Today when I woke up, my dad came home after a six mile run. This got me thinking about how I don't have the time or the condition to run six miles anymore. Maybe when I'm older, have a steady job, and have more time on my hands I'll be able to run a lot more. One can only hope.

Stress week

I have to be honest and say that this week I didn't run at all! With school and work and all of the other responsibilities we have, sometimes its hard to balance and make the time to work out. I really miss it though. Sometimes I need to work out in times of stress in order to feel okay. 

It has been proven to be a necessity of mine when I am stressed out. In the earlier years of college when I took 18 hours and I wasn't so used to a heavy load, running was a must to get away from everything for a little bit and just clear my head. One afternoon, coming home from school, I was determined to go for a run before anything else. As I was about to walk through my front door, my father came rushing out and said he needed my help with some things. I knew that if I helped him, I would probably loose the little free time I was gonna use to go for a run and told him I wanted to run. Sternly, he told me he really needed my help and that my run could wait. In desperation that I wasn't going to get to run and had so much to do after anyway, I started crying. When my father saw my reaction, he asked why I was crying with a worried look on his face. I explained to him that I had the most stressful week and still had a ton to do. I also told him that I had carefully planned out my day to just have enough time to afford to run for 40 minutes and still get all my work done, but by helping him I knew I wouldn't be able to run anymore. He then let me off the hook and I was able to complete my run. I was astonished to see the difference it made and how much more relaxed I felt after running. For people like me, running is vital and everyone has their different ways of relaxing. From experience, I highly recommend to make time for those certain activities every once in a while.