2 anniversaries this week

I just realized that Saturday will mark one full year that I have been blogging. And this week marks one full year that I have been running! That is so insane! 

When I started running it was for me to be able to say that I had completed something that I started. I am a well-known quitter if something ever got hard most of the time I would just quit. I started the C25K free app on my phone a couple of times before I actually stuck with it. I started this blog to hold myself accountable. After a little while of “training” I decided to look for a 5k to run.

 I wanted to make sure that I completed the full C25K program before I had to actually run wog or crawl a race. And the only one that I could find would be almost exactly 8weeks from my starting point. I wrote all about it in a previous post. And that was the last local race I could find until April 2013.

Anyways, low and behold I actually finished the program and ran my first race in November after that I was hooked and decided to keep-on-keeping-on. I had no intentions to ever keep running. But I did and still am. I decided I’m going to keep running and doing races (that I can afford) until I no longer love it. 

I have fallen out of love with running earlier this year for a short period of time but I came running back to it shortly after our breakup. Ha-ha did you catch what I did there?? I came running back? I crack myself up.

I want to teach my daughter that she needs to have goals and drive for life and a passion for something productive.

Personally, I didn’t really care about much growing up…Well, I did for food and watching lots of television. But I don’t agree with that. I want Chloe to look forward to life and hobbies and not just be worried about boys and just living…actually how I grew up I wouldn’t even define it as “living” I was just there. What I’m doing now is actually living. I have drive, determination, goals, and productive things I look forward to. I wake up every morning thankful that I was given another day and ready to conquer it.

I’m not proud that I haven’t lost any weight for several months now but I am very proud that I have accomplish so much in just one short year. Here’s to many more!

*The top photos are almost a couple weeks shy of being one year apart 

*The bottom photos are a couple months shy of being one year apart.