Running and Resolutions

One of my New Years Resolutions was to start eating healthy, with the benefit of that to be some weight loss. I am happy to report that as of yesterday, I am down 10 pounds!! (Some of it was certainly just holiday pudge, but it is still 10!) Plus, I am finally below a certain number that was haunting me! I would like to lose nine more pounds.

I joined a running group over the winter and have been doing quite a few runs with them. Last week, I ran 20 miles, and this week I will have run 18 after tomorrow. I'm getting faster running with this group, which is totally amazing. I have been wanting to get faster, but I have a hard time forcing myself to run above my most comfortable speed. I am running Broad St in May, and then I think I will run this half marathon in Philly at the end of May. I am playing around with the idea of training for a marathon, but I'm not sure how I feel about it.

On the school front: We had 31 parents out of 53 students come to pick up their kid's report card. That is actually a pretty good turnout. They should be announcing Renaissance Schools on Monday.

Dates: I met a guy at Monk's on Wednesday. He was nice enough, but he misrepresented himself in pictures and laughed at the service learning project my kid's want to do. It really bothered me! Plus, he lives in Conshohocken which is kind of far away. I don't think that I will go out with him again. I had another date last night. We had dinner at the Continental. Really nice guy, easy conversation. I wasn't particularly attracted or not-attracted to him. He also does not live in the city, but there was nothing that stood out that I didn't like. He does karate, which is cool. I guess I am looking for some spark that I haven't found yet.

Chemistry from the beginning is important to me, and in all of my past relationships it was something that brought us together from the beginning. (Clearly they did not work out, but still). Chemistry is more than just on the physical level though, too. There needs to be more than just a conversation going on - I'm not really sure how to put into words what I mean, but when you are talking/meeting/having dinner with someone - there is physical chemistry, but also there is chemistry in the way you interact, what types of things you talk about. You have to click. And I havent really found that with the people I've met on match.

I think that people should be with a person that makes them the best versions of themselves, and I have never found that. Of the guys I have dated, even the ones that I really liked, I have always compromised some important part of myself or changed (slightly, not drastically) something about myself. Whether it's the way someone treated me, or the amount of alcohol I drank, or safe sex ... I'm all for compromising in relationships, but if you don't help me be the best version of myself, then I shouldn't be with you. And that goes both ways. I think that if there is the physical/emotional/intellectual chemistry, then helping each other be the best they can should come naturally. It certainly isn't something you can force.