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Yellow Starburst

I feel a bit like yellow starburst right now. The new chapter in my life has already been presented with some challenges and it is only 48 hours old! I guess I need to remember "life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." My feelings get hurt pretty easily when people don't return phone calls and text messages. If it is just one, I am usually ok, but when it is multiple people in the same day it is kind of easy to start feeling like a yellow starburst. Hopefully tomorrow I will start feeling more like a pink or red starburst.

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tom said…
Think you might just still be experiencing post IM blues. Relax for two weeks and then see how you feel.
Anonymous said…
Such negativity!?! I stumbled across your blog as a fellow endurance (well for me seriously amateur) endurance athlete in Texas while you were going through your pre-IMAZ taper phase. I found it a fun read (for me - probably not for you) to read about someone else experiencing the same feelings as I often do pre-race. Anyway, I disagree. I always say run faster and longer to blow off the excess steam and stress. Besides we always feel better after a good hard workout.(Sorry, there is no way I am sitting on a bike seat for 112 miles and then running 26 - I just stick to running - biking or swimming, it's all you.)
CoachLiz said…
If it makes you feel better girl, I know of someone who would like to talk to the yellow starburst and is kinda shy and thought that you would not talk to them. They tried at CB&I but you did not look at them when they talked to Michelle.

Smile!

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