I'm so excited to announce that I logged 33 miles last week on dailymile! I never thought it a million years I would be logging 10 miles let alone over 30! I ended up taking an extra rest day last week since I just felt tired and sluggish and had pulled my hamstring a little the week before and it really paid off! My run was borderline easy and really felt great. There are times when I think "Omg there's no way I can do a triathlon! What was I thinking?!" but then I have tools like dailymile where I can look and see that I've been making real progress and I just get so much more excited and motivated. Today starts week 5 of my training plan and it's making the big leap from 5 to 6 days of workouts. Eek! Wish me luck!
Do you ever just wake up, take a big breath of fresh air and feel totally grateful to be alive? Ok, so I don't. But I also don't wake up wishing I hadn't anymore and that is certainly something to be grateful for. You see, I went through a very long, very dark phase in my life where every day was not a blessing, I couldn't enjoy a pretty day and I begged the earth to swallow me whole. I had things on the horizon and did a pretty damn good job of faking every normal human emotion so no one knew what was going on. The only one I didn't have fooled was myself and unfortunately at that time, mine was the only voice I heard and the only opinion that mattered. Without going into detail I'll just say that there was a point when I hit rock bottom. And as I sat there and finally felt solid ground under me I realized that I was no longer falling. What was more important was I realized the true benefit of rock bottom, the ability to put your feet on the ground. When I ...
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