So, this blog is going to be 2 years in the making. I really, really want to be an Ironman...but more than that, I want to be healthy...body, spirit and mind..and I'm hoping that by blogging...I can do all three!
This past weekend I watched as my friends and teammates completed...or nearly completed...an epic 20mile run and 120 mile bike ride. And while, on some level, I wished it were me...On the other hand, I was entirely glad for it not to be me. I'm not ready..not physically, not mentally, not spiritually. Ironman training begins with swim, bike, run, but it doesn't end there. It is sometimes more mentally challenging in the end than physically challenging. Sure..I can not imagine swimming 2.4miles, biking 112 miles and running 26.2 now....b/c right now, I have a hard time fathoming doing half that...as was evidenced this past summer. I thought I could just get thru it....but you can't do 70.3 on shear grit alone...i finished..but not nearly in the way I had hoped...So next year..2012, I will "tri" again....and again..until I can do it...
I have to get my head on straight though..and figure in my weaknesses and makes them my strengths. I need to get my nutrition down..and make it a lifelong change...and I need to return to my spiritual roots. I have let myself get to much into myself and not enough into God..and His faithfulness to me...and my past desire to be ever so faithful to Him. I have let my prayer life slip and I have let Church take a back seat to my "triing"...so this will change....
Today...for today...my goals are these...
1. to return to prayer..and to clean up my mouth!
2. to relinquish the hold that soda has on me
3. to never set foot in McDonald's again..unless absolutely necessary...and who am i kidding...WHEN is McDonald's ever necessary!
for now..it won't be a weight loss goal...it will be a healthy lifestyle goal...
I also promise to myself to faithfully follow my training plan...even when I'm tired...b/c these things will make me an Ironman...these things will help my on my journey to become the healthy person I want to be...
no one will ever read this blog...but if they do..I hope they find an integral person who lives her words...who always give 110% and who has FUN along the way...
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