I have always been really good at showing up for others. I have the ability to get things done. I pride myself on people being able to count on me. If someone asks me if I can do something to help them or needs my assistance I am going to do everything I can to be there for them. I am good at that. I am good at getting tasks done. I enjoy getting tasks done and making sure that boxes on the to-do list…Continue Reading “Showing Up … For Myself”
I believe in myself, at least sometimes I believe in myself. Why is it so easy to believe in everyone around me. I can encourage the crap out just about anyone. I can cheer anyone on and truly believe that they can complete whatever goal they are reaching for. However, when it comes to believing in myself that is one of the hardest things I have ever done. Do not get me wrong, I want to believe in myself. I want to be one of…Continue Reading “I Believe in Me …”
Am I strong enough? This simple answer I really want to say is yes, and then ask strong enough for what. I know I want to believe I am strong enough for anything. I want to believe that I am not only capable of being physically strong enough but also mentally strong enough. I remember several years ago I was on a one-on-one run with Coach Paul. He was about to take a group to Sweden to run a marathon and jokingly he said I…Continue Reading “Am I Strong Enough??”
I have lived in New York for a year and a half now. I have a job that I love. I work with amazing people. I am making friends and real connections, yet something is missing. That something is I miss what I had with my amazing running club in Florida. PRS is different. It is welcoming and inviting and there are so many people that you don’t care that you are the slowest or the new one. I joined PRS before it was the…Continue Reading “My Kind of Brave”
I have always heard that comparing yourself to others is one of the worst things to do. There is an old saying that says something along the lines of remembering you may be in chapter 2 and not to compare yourself to someone else’s chapter 15. That is not exactly right but you get the general point. I think we can all agree that comparing yourself to others is not really a great idea. There was a time when I really struggled with that. I…Continue Reading “Playing the Comparison Game”
Running is hard. Working out is hard. Consistency is hard. Life is hard. Balance is hard. Sometimes you can only handle so much hard in your world and you know what that is OKAY! There is a season where working out and running are the hard things in my world that I can focus on. Then there are seasons of life where life and living is the hard that needs the focus. It is really great when the stars align and I can do all of…Continue Reading “Don’t call it a comeback”
In the past few months, I have experienced a lot of questions about who I am. I lost my belief in myself and I lost my self confidence. The worst thing I feel that I lost though was my voice. I made a terrible mistake of reading the comments on the video I did with Iris. The vast majority of the comments were kind and encouraging; however there were so many comments that were just not nice. There were some downright mean comments and these were…Continue Reading “Finding ME Again …”
Why is it hard to believe in yourself, and yet so easy to believe in others? This is the question of the hour. This week I have really struggled through my workouts, but have been getting them done. My coach has had me on the devil incarnate machine known as the elliptical and the rower. I have done the workouts but man I have struggled. I spent every second of every minute telling myself I could not do this. I could not get out of my…Continue Reading “Believing in MYSELF”
The story of my life. It should come as no surprise to anyone who has known me for any time, that I can get hurt faster than Egypt can get a plague in the Old Testament. I have a chronic back injury (a herniated disc in my back) that likes to get pissed off and take me out for a bit of time. My back has been doing great the past 3 months. I have been icing and stretching like I should, my runs were…Continue Reading “Injured…. Again”
This sentence is so much easier to say than it is to believe. I think this statement rings even more true for people who may not have been athletic in their child/teen or college years. I have been running and working out for a number of years but it was not until a few years ago that I started to recognized that I am an athlete, it was even longer before I could get myself to say it out loud. I could say it about…Continue Reading “I am an ATHLETE”