If I Blogged, Vol. 3

I would tell you that

I would tell you that I recently passed my professional exam! I have mentioned a couple times in my training posts, and maybe in others (just kidding, I know I don't write about anything other than training), but in the midst of training for an Ironman and working full-time and trying to keep my sanity, for the last few months I've been studying for a professional exam. If I were smarter I would have taken it 6 months ago and been done with it, but I didn't have the time to study. As if I've had the time now? I would go through maybe a week-long spurt of using my daily spare hour to study (usually eating dinner simultaneously), then not study for a few weeks, then have another week-long spurt, then repeat a couple more times. I only had to get roughly 50-60% of the answers right to pass so I wasn't aiming very high, but I walked out of that 6-hour test feeling like I maybe, probably, hopefully passed, but also

I would tell you that I purchased basically an entire fall wardrobe from Loft. I haven't had to buy work clothes since my pre-capsule days, before I realize that I both can and should love what's in my closet and want to get dressed every day, and I needed new...well, pretty much everything. I'm still tweaking what's in there and I'm not sure if I'm going to go full-on capsule again, but I'm closer than I've been in a while and I actually like putting outfits together again. It probably also helps that fall clothes are always my favorite.

I would tell you that the end is near. A month from now, there will be no Ironman training in my life and no Ironman posts on this blog. I have honestly forgotten what life was like before this. I have no idea what I did in my free time. I don't even remember sleeping in. I mean, I must have slept in, right? At least one day, on the weekends? But