This week has been so long! Yesterday I worked all Saturday 10-7:30 with no breaks! I am a working woman at Texas Running Company. I really like it so far, I am just getting used to what I am doing! It is always hard to start out somewhere. You have no idea what you are doing, you get in trouble, ask millions of questions. As long as you enjoy what you are doing I think it will be worth it. I do get 50 % off so that is nice and I get free running gels and gu. I helped mostly put away the running shoes this week. There are all these names for the shoes like the Kinvaras and the GT 2000 Asics, the W8950, and Brooks Pure Connect. I have to learn about all of them and how they are distinguished from one another. I learned about the "drop" and on average a shoe's drop or heel to toe ratio is about 10-14 for stability and 0-4 for neutral. Supposedly there are shoes that have widths like D or double E and I was supposed to organize them with this in mind, ya let's just say I got that part wrong. I had no idea how complicated running shoes were! I have been watching the video monitor to see how people run. I will have to examine their running performance on how they run. Their feet could over pronate or their feet can supinate. Everyone's feet tend to over pronate without any stability after long runs. This can cause shin splints, tight hamstrings, and plantar fascia. To correct these problems we have many stability shoes that support the inward part of the foot with a type of cushion. It's interesting and I will learn a lot as time goes on.
I have also been a nanny for this mom I am helping out. The baby's name is Eloise and the mom needs help to run errands and work conferences and such. Eloise is a four month old that needs a lot of attention. We usually watch all the day time shows like Live with Kelly and Michael, Dr. Oz, and Rachael Ray. I only babysit her once or twice a week. The other week the mom Jackie called me upset that Eloise was sick. She blamed me for feeding her or not doing something! I was like really, I did what you asked and she still got upset. It's hard to watch other people's kids because they want you to do everything they do but they are not there so everything is your fault if something happens! So I am not sure how long this will last. She told me the last nanny she had didn't work out because she would put eloise down to play and then look at her phone.? I wonder how relaxed or anal of a mom I will be...
Chris and I went to Houston this week. He had to do a clinical test for Step 2. We stayed with Lewis and Jesse at their apartment and cooked steaks and potatoes.
Chris's test got done at 3:30 so he came and met us and we went to the Chocolate Bar. Lewis really wanted to go and supposedly it's famous in Houston. I can't resist chocolate so Chris, Lewis, and Jesse got ice cream and I got a chocolate orange! It was so good! It has white chocolate and milk chocolate on it. I had never had a chocolate covered orange so I knew I had to try it.
I have also been working on my Personal Training booklet which has been fun! It gives me something to do and I enjoy it. I can't wait for the Nutrition and Wellness booklet. These are two separate things that I will "certified" in. It would be nice to be able to work from home and do a couple of consults and personal training. I have been interested in learning about nutrition for a long time. I have a nutrition blog and I just love learning about it. So I am going to see how studying for nutrition makes me like it or hate it and see if I want to do that in the future. You never know I may just end up being a RD? Which I would love...!
Anyways I just want to relax! I have work work work and achievement days next Wednesday! We are decorating Halloween cookies and I have to come up with the lesson. I am also going to try and coordinate an indoor soccer team so maybe we will have more soccer in the future!
LOVE
Cameryn Smith
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