We all want healing to be quick and fast. I get angry when it takes so long. I want God to hurry it up. I’m sure you’ve felt the same way at some point in your life.
I’ve had several say to me this week… you did a marathon… I didn’t think you were running much ….
Well, truth is I had not run much at all in over 3-4 months. My body was basically worn out from marathon after marathon, kidney stones, hospital stay, Disney miles toting grandbabies, etc. So, I took off from running and focused on PT. My PT had told me to get my butt back in the gym. See, since I was running all the time, I was not doing any strength training. So back in June I started back in the gym. It was hard at first. I felt people were staring at me when I could barely lift those 8 lb dumbbells 😂. But after a few days I realized no one was looking at me. Everyone was doing their own thing. Everyone was focused on what they could do. 🥰. One day Brett Wood .. I'll be back tone, and you and your old mom can compare muscles 😂😁🤪❤️
Fast forward to around mid-August … I started back doing some light running … I joined my friends again on Saturdays after missing them for several weeks. I still took it really easy with short miles during the week, and I only did jog/walk intervals. I managed to do 2- 18 milers right before twin cities doing intervals. But was still a tad concerned about 26.2 miles ….
I told my friends I would be doing intervals. I would not be running. Which you know our group … we only have like 2-3 that really run… Felicia Allen-Basse, and Michelle Rice Hatton both said they would do intervals with me. I didn’t expect them to and told the group they could all do their own thing, but I would be doing intervals, and I didn’t mind doing them alone.
Well race day came and Felicia asked me several times what my intervals were going to be. She had missed a couple of long runs herself and had no plans of running hard herself .. so I told her I’d do intervals with her. Towards the last part of the race, she had some issues and told me to go on and run … I told her NO… when I said we’d stay together I meant it ❤️
We all 3 finished together. It was by far not our fastest race, and I don’t care about those results online being there forever 🤪. Someone once told me they would not run a race unless they were 100% and could run their best because results were online forever for people to look at. 🤨. That used to brother me … but not now. I’m thrilled to just be out there and cross that finish line. … remember only like .10% of the population actually does a marathon. 😁
These race pictures for me shows the true spirit of friends running together. It was a hard race with all the elements we had on the course. but we finished standing up and smiling. The feeling I had crossing that finish line after 5 race disasters … (kidney stone, hospital, being put to sleep several times for those procedures, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, etc) was AMAZING!
I know the strength training helped and I’m forever thankful for Grant who always helps me and is honest with me! He’s the best! 💪
What a great girl's weekend! 💗💗 SPARKLE SISTERS 🩷🩷 And yes I wore skirt for Michelle 🩷
Marathon #39
State # 19s
Weekend pictures. BTW the race started at the MN Viking football stadium and ran back to the capitol in Minneapolis. It was a hilly course but the crowd support was AMAZING!
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| YES we had glitter! |
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| Finishing together was the BEST!! Love these girls!! |
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| Time to fly home... Ronnie and Be were on an earlier flight. |
