Once upon a time..

Well, since you just read all my TMI moments and think that running is officially not for you, let me encourage you otherwise with how I got into this whole 'world', and that you can too! Once upon a time, in January, I had this crazy idea that I wanted to finish a triathlon. This was something I thought I would do once, cross off, and never go back to. WRONG. So-off to swimming, biking, and running I went. I remember rejoicing for running .75 miles; the struggle was/is real. So I trained until the end of July-my big race. I not only finished-but finished 3 minutes faster than my 'I wish' time, and 17 minutes faster than what I would have been happy with! The feeling of crossing the finish line was one that I thrive off of and need in my life. It was a rush incomparable to anything I've experienced before, and not able to be explained. Through the blood, sweat, and tears that were experienced, that one moment of success was worth it. To be able to say, I am strong enough, and able enough to do this. Not only am I, but my GOD made me to do this! WE are ALL designed and able to do this.

tri day! 

transition action shot!

swimming!!

Through the triathlon, I got hooked up to a tri group in Gulfport that I started swimming with, and became a part of their group on facebook which posts about cool races, and random stuff/training's. After the tri, I realized I still wanted to race for as much of my life as possible, but I am not a huge fan of the biking portion. Around this time, 'The Bourbon Chase' showed up on the run-n-tri fb page, and it said 2 spots were left on a team. So-I decided to look into this race, and realized this was something that appealed to me incredibly badly, and I wanted to train to run it! So-I emailed back and forth and got a spot! Then came the time to look at the training schedule, and I realized they wanted you to be able to run a 1/2 marathon by the end. I said HECK NO, but still decided to train anyways. Off to school I go, and I am still hard-core training, and I am at my 5/5.5 mile wall for about a month and it sucked. Then, out of no where 6 weeks from the race I broke the wall, and could run 8, and then 10! So I decided I wanted to run a 1/2 before the Chase, and signed up for a 1/2 in SanDestin, FLORIDA! So here we are at that mark, and I can hardly wait to blog about the race, and then the chase, and then my full marathon! There are lots of in-betweens of hating running, hard-core, times of loving every moment, times of laughter while running, and times of crying because of life itself. However it all culminates to the moment of finished a successful run, or race, and the knowledge you did it....and the great food that follows :)