Feel Good

Nothing feels better than receiving an encouraging message from others about how my running has inspired them to start. 
Do I make it sound as good as it feels?! Guess so. This was a message sent to me yesterday:


You are inspiring me to become a runner :) I'm not very good at pushing myself, so having someone to encourage me on would help. I wish we were neighbors!


Let me tell you that tickled me pink! And here's another encouraging message I got as well 



I wish you well in everything you do. it's awesome to see someone so focused. You create a lot of passion inspiration and people around you. That's a very special gift to have.

So its working, I'm sharing my passion for running and exercise and people are inspired. Id say that's pretty rewarding!

Now, to start a group run once a week near my house for those who say they "CAN'T" run. 
People assume that because you're not a runner or never been a runner that you cant run. I beg to differ.
3 weeks ago I had never been on a group run, or ran more than 6 miles on a tread mill (dread mill) Yesterday, I did 10 miles, with a group, and barely broke a sweat, with no music! 
With hard work and determination you can do anything you set your mind to

"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."  John Bingham

double digets

Hit it, and done by 745 am! It was a breeze!
I know I could have gone at least 2 more miles, but I'm not going to push it!

I am super confident that I will be to the 13 miles very, very soon.

I freaking did it. And it felt good. Goosebumps all over when I saw the finish, and let me tell you that last mile always feels amazing, your so close, you get a rush of energy to push it and give it your all to the end! And I was able to share that with a friend who I have been bugging to come run with me.

We met at 530 am to start, and I got a text saying "I'M HERE"! I smiled big, cause I didn't know she was coming! I was so excited to share my passion with someone else and hit a milestone in distance as well. She is a runner but this was her longest distance as well. She will be running the 1/2 Marathon with me in San Antonio, as well as the other guy we ran with this morning. I think we will make a good team!
So stoked. All smiles. I can do this. I will do this. I am confident next year this time, I will be saying the same about a full marathon! Hope you follow me in my journey to get my 26.2 mile bumper sticker!

If only I could share the feel good feeling I get with others to motivate them to start this amazing hobby!
Have a fabulous day!

The Divorce Diet.

They should bottle this stuff up.

Read more about the Divorce Diet here. 

I have lost so much weight, and probably way more than I need...But my energy is depleted and i'm exhausted! I can not wait until my kids are back to school next week so I can focus on myself as far as nutrition and hydration. (Im not totally selfish, I just need to take care of myself so I can take care of my children)


Last nights group run was tough for me, about 5.5 miles, not a difficult distance or route but I was so tired. The weather was 106 degrees but the sun has started to go down earlier so we didn't hit any of it, completely shaded! Dumped water all over myself, and I was suddenly recharged. None the less I finished, not my best, but not my worst run. I finished, with a smile as always.

Running, makes me happy. Unless the group is chatting it up, my mind is free and clear of everything.
I just run. It's probably the best thing I could have possibly started doing for myself, which I have failed to do really anything for myself for the last 6 years of marriage.

I let being a mom and wife define me. I AM STILL ME.
It has taken me a very long time to realize who I am, and what I want and deserve.
I am still learning who "me" is..
Its my time to make myself happy, because I am all I have in the end....

Luckily things aren't ugly between the soon to be ex and I. He is supportive of my running, which I NEED to get me through life right now.

Race Pics

Watermelon Fun 5K Run Pics 

its cheaper

than therapy.


working out, exercising, running. without it, i think that i would just have nothing to keep me going.
i love my kids, and they are everything to me, but as a mom and a wife, WE need time to refuel, refocus, and take care of ourselves.

i don't talk about my personal life on here, other than my fitness goals and journey, but know that i struggle, a lot.
today i broke down, i cried and i cried at the gym. i was trying to keep myself together but i couldn't.

some drastic changes are about to happen, and thoughts ran through my head while i had that hour or two to myself working out today. thoughts i usually ignore, and try to ignore.

how can one feel failure, relief, sadness, happiness all at the same time.

while in class lifting i looked at myself and i felt strong. i am determined, and i'm not going to let this change break me.

i will get through this.

i can get through this.

it will make me stronger. 

this might be the hardest thing to get through but there is nothing i cant handle & i know there is that finish line at the end, but i'm going to keep it one step at a time, and try not to look to forward in the future. i've got this.