First, thank you for taking a moment to join me here, it is my prayer you will find hope and inspiration on these pages, as I share my journey in a bit more personal way. I have wrestled over the last year with success and failure and it has been eye opening for me in many ways. I have come to a few conclusions, and one is that my social media presence is in need of a change. That change has brought me back to blogging, back where it all began years ago. So, if you are wanting to follow me - this is where I will be for a while.
I have made a few self discoveries recently and I feel like I have been dragging myself around like Joy dragged sadness around on "inside out", trying to pull myself out of the fog that is the loss of my pre-cvid work life. I have struggled to figure out who I am without my almost 40 hour a week fitness job(s). [For those of you who don't know I work 3 part-time jobs which are all fitness related and all totaled almost 40 hours week - but more if you count work I chose to do away from work LOL.] Over the last year and a few months, I have pushed myself out of my comfort zone in a few ways; I became yoga certified and I am close to finished with my Holistic Nutritionist Certification and will begin working soon in my Holistic Health Coach Certification, and I am looking over the next few months wanting to set goals and reset my focus.
So, why am I here? I am here to share my journey as I navigate my own health and fitness life. Here I will share my dreams and goals, log my daily struggles and triumphs with training and fueling, and hopefully inspire a few others to become stronger in mind, body and spirit everyday.
As summer begins in a few weeks I will find myself with a slower groupX teaching schedule which, I have decided will leave me with enough time and energy to begin running again. When I was in my 40s I had a goal of running a 50 miler on my 50th birthday. That instead was filled with hours of dancing and has been the way I celebrated my last 3 birthdays, leading long groupx dance sessions. I still have that dream of becoming an ultra marathoner, eventho I have only 1 full marathon under my belt, that seed of marathoning into my "old age" was planted. I am not sure what happened over the last few months, but a few runs on the treadmill has gotten me wondering about running again. So.... I have decided to train for a half marathon this summer, which I will complete on or a few days before July 4th and with a hint of a idea that maybe a full marathon would be in order by September..... we will see.