Sharing my adventures

Over the past few months I have played with the idea of starting my own blog. Many things have run through my mind as I worked with the idea, my recurring thought was twofold, what will I write about and will anyone really want to read a blog about me? The answer still eludes me, some may read it, some may not, but I determined that point is irrelevant in the writing. So here I am!!

Over the course of my life I have dealt with my share of challenges, as we all have. In the last couple of years I have taken many opportunities to evaluate my own strengths and weaknesses. I have found, and continue to find, strengths I never knew I had and have made peace with my weaknesses, even turned some of those weaknesses into new strengths.

A close friend has shared a very important lesson with me and I make it part of my thoughts every day....."There are many things in this world we cannot do. Trying is not one of them." And with incorporating this thought process into my life I have also reestablished my love for running. Although, throughout my life I have always run, I have never challenged myself to race. This year I ran my first race, the Wasatch Back Relay, a 188-mile relay from Logan to Park City, Utah, run continuously over the course of about 28 hours by a team of 12. And I fell in love with running in a whole new way. Was it my best performance? No. But, I challenged myself to race and race I did, even after being plagued with several setbacks in my training, including pneumonia and a knee injury just weeks before race day. Now, I have set a new goal that I want to share with all of you. This September I will run my first half marathon. I am very excited for this race and can't wait to set my first PR for a half marathon race!

And so to all of you who will read my blog, I invite you to come along for the ride and share my adventures as I set new goals and wake up every day "trying", believing in what I can do and changing my weaknesses to strengths! I hope in doing this I will, in even the smallest way, inspire each of you to do the same. And I give this challenge to you....

Engage others. Inspire all. Believe in you.