Well hello everyone! Thanks so much for joining me on my journey as a Sweaty, So-So, Endurance Athlete! Let me take a minute to introduce myself and the purpose of this blog. I've been in the fitness industry for quite awhile now, 10 years if you are keeping track and over the years I've been involved in LOTS of "movement" activities. I started out walking circles around my neighborhood when my kids were small, then I started running and then running some more and more and then some more! I've participated in ONE marathon (26.2 miles is a really long way!), ran in half marathons, 10k's, 5k's, went to boot camps, ran my own boot camps, completed mud runs, walked on stage as a figure competitor and so many other events it's hard to keep track of.
So you are thinking, huh, big deal, lots of people do that what makes me so special? Well, nothing really! I'm just your average, sweaty, not fast but not slow, so-so endurance junkie trying to stay healthy and spread the wellness word along the way.
Soooo, what's my purpose here? Well let me tell you one beautiful semi-fall Saturday morning in North Texas (80's - whoop!), I was out for a long bike ride with a little running included and I started thinking, (I think clearer in the morning - even before coffee!), the little voice in my head (who speaks to me more then I care to admit) started yelling at me...
"Stacey, you really love this stuff! You love being out in the open, just you, your thoughts, your heart racing, lungs full of fresh, country air, just you against you! You are not fast and you are not slow but you keep going. You keep moving no matter what hurts the next day, no matter the time that passes, you keep...on...going. THIS is what you need to write about. THIS is what you need to share with ALL the other "not so fast but not too slow, so-so, (super awesome!) endurance athletes out there."
That ONE single thought, that realization that this is WHAT I love has brought me here to you all today. I will journal my experiences, my random thoughts, challenges, recipes, my up hill and down hill battles in hopes that you all can relate to my experiences and laugh right along with me. Because when it comes down to it, my friends, life is too short to wear ugly tennis shoes! Life is meant to be LIVED in the fresh open air, soaking up the sun, wearing awesome tennis shoes, being with those you love and laughing and loving, every...single...day.
So, I hope you all will jump on my sweaty, so-so, endurance hill climb! It will be educational, inspiring, hysterical and most all......it will be FUN!
Welcome aboard!
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