Half a Year Done!

I live my life hoping to cross things off my list. Dunedin is no different. While I can't cross "live in the coldest city ever that has no summer" off the list for a few years I must break it down. We have finished one year of school. Check. Did that in February. Now we have finished one half of the hardest most competitive year. Check!!!! 

I wasn't sure I was going to make it this last three weeks. I'm not even sure what that statement means. If I don't make it do I die? Whatever I digress. I really had a rough few weeks. Chats to Hayley helped. Mass amounts of Starbucks helped. A lot of running did wonders. Max having a baby sitter was the kindest thing I could do for him so I did it a lot! 2 hour conversation with Sea Jay refilled my soul. 

But now we are done. Sam and I both are beyond tired for very different reasons. Max is finally in bed and now we wait. We wait for results that will determine the next few years. We wait for refreshing after a horribly hard season. We wait for connection after doing life next to each other. We wait for energy after exhaustion has taken us over. 

Max and I arrived home after Sam's three hour physics exam (to which he lovingly referred to it as three hours of hell) and we did what we needed to do. Max and Sam went to the rugby field and kicked rugby balls for two hours. I went on a semi short run and got my fastest time and then spent the next hour on social media in the car at the rugby field. 

I'm so happy Sam's finished with this semester. He's incredible. He could have taken the easy road and found something in medicine that wasn't as daunting. He could have not tried for fear of failing. He could have just lived a mediocre life with a "what if" always in the back of his head. But he didn't. He risked. He stepped up and he will be different for it. 

4.24 miles 39 minutes 9:15 min/mile my personal best

Living the dream at the rugby field.