THIS IS WHY I TRAIN

Its hard when you set a goal to not lose sight of the big picture and to not get wrapped up in the details especially when your milestones come so small that some times you don't recognize them happening. These past few weeks,I have been obsessing about the "What nots"." How I am NEVER going to get close to these other athletes times. How I hopefully won't be the last person to cross the finish line. How after 9 months on running, I run a 12 minute mile.

But I have to look back a year ago how I couldn't even run a block. How I went from a walk to a walk/run to a 15 min mile to a 13 min mile and now a 12 minute. How daily exercise was not even on my radar and now I get antsy if I don't work out for a day or two. How I am so much happier.

This past weekend put the icing on the cake for me. It brought to light the REAL reason I "tri" The reason I had started this journey in the first place. It was all for my little girl. I didn't want her to have a mommy that was too tired, too big, too weak, too out of shape to do the things she wanted to do. I trained to be the best Mommy I could be.

So this weekend, while we were at the water park in Chelan, as a lug a 30 pound toddler on my hip while I make numerous trips up the step hill so she can have the thrill of going down the "big" slides, it all hit me. THIS IS WHY I TRAIN. To watch my daughter beam with joy and giggle with delight. There is no way I'd would have been able to make all those trips up those hills last year by myself let along lugging an extra 30 pounds. but this year I could and this year I CONQUERED that water park.

I still may be the last person to cross that finish line next month. But that doesn't matter. What does matter is that I finished.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7



Here is a glimpse at the joy I got to experience this weekend. (My sister, Melissa is catching Lauren)