Motivation

Hey everyone,

Haven't posted in awhile, my apologies. I wanted to put something down tonight because the Wine and Dine Half Marathon is happening as we speak. As you all know, this is the race we are planning to run in exactly a year from now. It's been fun seeing all the tweets and Instagram pictures from Disney for the event. It looks like so much fun and I am pumped to get there and complete our race.

That being said, we've definitely hit a bump in the road. Dad took an unorthodox trip down the stairs last week and he's been sore so he hasn't been able to run with us. Also, last saturday we completed a 2.25 mile RWR and it almost killed us. No joke. It was intense as it was our longest distance and it was our first distance run at 15 second run intervals. So painful. We ended up just walking on Monday and essentially took the rest of the week off. It was that bad. We all were still feeling it days afterwards. I know I was. I believe we pushed it a little too far on Saturday. What I've come to believe is we are not taking our nutrition as seriously as we need to in order for our runs to be as effective as they can. Without proper nutrition, we are just spinning in circles.

Needless to say, our motivation is down. Realizing our race is now 1 year away puts it into better perspective. We're down, but I refuse to be out. This is one of the best decisions we've made and I am committed to seeing it through. I am not going to quit and I am going to fight to change my life and my family's lives. I feel like I've been here a hundred times before, making some progress and then getting crushed when the road gets tough. I refuse to quit. I simply refuse to quit.

I will have an update in one week and it will be positive. Prayers would be greatly appreciated as we're going to push ourselves to where we've never been before.

Countdown: 364

To Infinity and Beyond.


Tim