Saturday, December 23, 2017

New life; new goals!

I'm back. For real.

It's been 3 yrs since I last sat down to type something about me, my fitness and my race goals. It felt odd, but somewhat liberating to not have anything to train for. I didn't sit around, though. I created a human... from scratch; and that was actual hard work.

My tiny human is perfect, but I'm his mama, so I'm biased. My post-pregnancy body, however, is not. And I'm sort of ok with it. Because I look at tiny, and he makes me smile. And my life is better since he's been in it.

My lil peanut, 2 days old!

Long story short...

My pregnancy was far from perfect and my close friends know it. I struggled with the worst morning sickness, crazy water retention, kidney stones and a few other hiccups here and there. Motivation was close to negative 100 to get out and do anything. And then, he was born. Life as I knew it was gone. And reality hit. Getting my pre-pregnancy body back was not as easy as many people made it seem, but we're all different and I'm one of those who has to work WAY harder.

That wasn't it. I also decided to go back to school earlier this year. While I had accomplished most my post-pregnancy weight loss by the end of 2016, school + stress + family + work resulted in me gaining 14 lbs!! I was shocked. Yet I worked hard to lose it all over again. The mission was accomplished. I got a new job, which I LOVE. I trained. I lost all 14 lbs and I completed my first post-pregnancy ultra-- my all-time favorite: The Bear Chase 50K.

After my September race, it was easy to let go and relax a little. After all, it was quite the year. Today I sit here 20 weeks and 1 day away from one big ass challenge-- The Quad Rock 50 (mile). Yikes. Tomorrow is Day 1 for me and I'm going to give it my all. Not only will I complete this race, but I would like to feel good. And I would like to feel like I'm in the best shape I've been in 3 years.

I am REALLY looking forward to finding myself in my endless hours of running and sharing the trails with some new and old running friends, and sharing some stories here.

Stay tuned.