This is a post I wrote over a year ago. For some reason I never posted it. Not sure what happened. It was an amazing experience I am still trying to follow those dreams.....
From July 2010....A few days ago I was with my family stopped at a rest stop on I-70 in Central Utah. When we pulled up I noticed 3 people dressed in full dirt bike gear they were just chilling a bit on the benches there. After a bit they got back on their bikes and took off. When we got back in the car my husband asked me if I had read the sign on the side of their bikes. I told him I hadn't noticed it and he told me it had stated they were doing a Transcontinental Ride all on dirt roads and trails. As we drove down the Freeway a ways of on the side of the freeway on a dirt trail I saw them again riding along, going after that dream. What a moment that was for me, just being able to witness the greatness of those riders trying to achieve their dream.
It is times like this I wish I was more aware of things going on around me. I realized I had missed talking to these amazing people. It made me stop and think about what my dreams are and if I am doing all I can to accomplish them. After all I am the only one that can make my dreams come true.
It is never to late to start living your dreams. I plan on reaching out for that star, holding on tight and enjoying the ride. I will keep you posted as to how it goes. I hope you will also realize your dreams and go for them.
Enjoy the Journey!!!
Friday, October 28, 2011
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Random Ramblings
I often wish for a night at home with no commitments and no plans. I thought it would be great..... Well sometimes when you get your wish, it doesn't turn out quite the way you planned.
Here I sit on a beautiful Sunday night with nothing to do. Sometimes you just don't feel like reading a book; this rarely happens but you know tonight I am just not feeling it. Nothing on TV, the boys are playing video games, Allyssa is with friends and Allen is on a little hunting trip which leaves me a long wished for evening. But my choices are not sounding all that great. I want to eat a huge bowl of ice cream or sugar cookies or some other food that I know I shouldn't..... I won't I have worked too hard to turn to emotional eating again; but boy is it tempting. So to prevent the overeating I am keeping my fingers busy on the computer.
I want to do something worth while, I want to laugh I love laughing....but laughing at myself is not fun if I am doing it alone. I am not sad or feeling bad, just bored and I don't like it. What do you do when you get bored?
I think I like having too much to do over boredom. Now I am just rambling not even making sense. Maybe I better just find a good book.
Well here is to long awaited evenings...Cheers!
Here I sit on a beautiful Sunday night with nothing to do. Sometimes you just don't feel like reading a book; this rarely happens but you know tonight I am just not feeling it. Nothing on TV, the boys are playing video games, Allyssa is with friends and Allen is on a little hunting trip which leaves me a long wished for evening. But my choices are not sounding all that great. I want to eat a huge bowl of ice cream or sugar cookies or some other food that I know I shouldn't..... I won't I have worked too hard to turn to emotional eating again; but boy is it tempting. So to prevent the overeating I am keeping my fingers busy on the computer.
I want to do something worth while, I want to laugh I love laughing....but laughing at myself is not fun if I am doing it alone. I am not sad or feeling bad, just bored and I don't like it. What do you do when you get bored?
I think I like having too much to do over boredom. Now I am just rambling not even making sense. Maybe I better just find a good book.
Well here is to long awaited evenings...Cheers!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Ragnar Relay- Del Sol- AKA- My Birthday Party
I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!
Robert Schuller
I posted this same quote a few months back, I love it, I love the empowerment I feel when reading it and the courage it gives me to get through some struggles.
One of my dreams for about 2 years now was to get to the point that I could run a Ragnar Relay and not have to walk any of it. Not even a few yards.
I have struggled with my running and was never quite sure if I would get to that point. But, when I found out they had a relay in AZ that started on my birthday, I knew this was the one I had to do. I started training about a year ago and struggled for months and months.
Well this past weekend, I did it! I watched that dream walk away achieved. 14.6 miles in 3 legs over a period of 33 hours. I ran it! I am still on an emotional high! My dream actually came true......
Being overweight for so long I never thought I would get to this point. I do still have a long way to go. But thanks to some amazing friends and some amazing new friends I can now move on to another dream--- I will! I am! I can!
The best part is, so can you! GO FOR IT--Live your dream
Robert Schuller
I posted this same quote a few months back, I love it, I love the empowerment I feel when reading it and the courage it gives me to get through some struggles.
One of my dreams for about 2 years now was to get to the point that I could run a Ragnar Relay and not have to walk any of it. Not even a few yards.
I have struggled with my running and was never quite sure if I would get to that point. But, when I found out they had a relay in AZ that started on my birthday, I knew this was the one I had to do. I started training about a year ago and struggled for months and months.
Well this past weekend, I did it! I watched that dream walk away achieved. 14.6 miles in 3 legs over a period of 33 hours. I ran it! I am still on an emotional high! My dream actually came true......
Being overweight for so long I never thought I would get to this point. I do still have a long way to go. But thanks to some amazing friends and some amazing new friends I can now move on to another dream--- I will! I am! I can!
The best part is, so can you! GO FOR IT--Live your dream
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| Elizabeth finishing the 1st of her 3 legs |
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| Allyssa running the first of her 3-- she started a new trend in water bottle holding! |
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| Here I am waiting in the chute for my 1st leg. What an amazing sunset for a back drop! |
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| Here I go off to my first 5.9 miles |
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| Too bad I was running east away from the view |
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| Here I come running into the shoot ready to hand off to Joel who is patiently waiting! |
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| It's the first hand off for our leg 2--Run Joel Run! |
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| Rae from Ragnar aka awesome asst race director-- along with the biggest loser participants Jessica and Sunshine! |
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| My cute friend April- she rocks |
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| Joel and Nick waiting with me at exchange 30 for the hand off to April to start Van 2's last legs! |
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| Shelley waiting to give April water after her major uphill she just finished and she is only half way done. Still more hills to go! |
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| Water and she's off! |
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| A big hug for my amazing girl who loves her mom so much she tortured herself and ran this race with her! |
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| Her she is pre-hug racing to the chute for her last hand off of the Race! Woot! Woot! go Allyssa! |
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| Shelley--yes she is amazing this is the 3rd of hers legs... but oops Tammy had to fly home for the birth of her new grandson so yep Shelley did do a leg 4! Yes I told you she is amazing! |
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| Hanging at the finish line in our goddess attire! |
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| 4 of us amazing goddesses- we look pretty good for being up for the better part of 2 days and running and running and running! |
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| The Team (well all but Tammy-we missed her) at the finish line! |
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| Climbing on the Ragnar Van!! |
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| Shelley, Sunshine, Anna, Me, April, Jessica and Sione |
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| Joel doing his finish line Ragnar dance! |
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| And the serious team pic |
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| My beautiful baby girl she's had enough! |
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Goal Setting--Darren Hardy
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I thought with the new year coming that researching a bit on goals was a place to start. I want to make 2011 my best year ever!
I thought with the new year coming that researching a bit on goals was a place to start. I want to make 2011 my best year ever!
Friday, December 3, 2010
The sunset of a great trip!
What a wonderful ending to a great Thanksgiving with my sister and her kids in Arizona this year. I took Mason and Drake and we headed south for some fun in the sun and time with loved ones. This is a shot from the truck on our way home just before crossing the new Hoover Damn bridge. Amazing sunset--- what a beautiful ending to a perfect weekend! I am thankful for family and for the small gifts that God blesses us with each day. Like this sunset! 
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Running???- Yes I did the Red Rock Relay
Well it has been awhile since I posted. I have done some amazing and incredible things over the past few months. I have come to a time in my life when I realize that I need to remember who I am and what my dreams are. When I was younger I was always very active and involved in life. I loved the outdoors and I loved pushing myself and seeing what I was capable of.
Well I guess you could say that over the last 20 years or so I forgot who I really was in an effort to become who and what I thought I should be. I was still happy don't get me wrong, but I felt off somehow like I was not living my true self.
I now realize that life is too short to not find the truth inside of me and live life to the fullest. I want to realize my dreams and make them come true.
One of the things I started to do is run. This is something I never thought I would love, I still am not sure that love is the word I would use to describe my feelings when I run, but I feel free, yes that is a good word. I feel that everything is up to me, it is just me and my inner voice fighting it out and pushing myself to do things I haven't done before. It is a conflict of mind over old worn out body parts and it is me having to overcome myself. It is me against me and I find that I learn about me more and more when I push myself to my limits. It can be scary, and I am not good at it, but I am doing it and I am learning, growing and feeling free.
In Sept. I did one of the hardest but most rewarding things in my life. I ran-well ran/walked- the Red Rock Relay with 11 other people 5 whom I became very grateful for and close to while living for 30 hours with them in a Suburban.
During my first leg of the relay, I start what was considered an easy run. Well nothing is easy for me and I wanted to give up before I ever really got started. This is where the mind and the body experienced a new obsticle. I had done a few trail runs, but never at close to 11,000 feet and I really thought I was going to die. I could not breathe, what should have been an easy down hill run turned into a moment of hitting rock bottom mentally for me. A time when I thought I would actually just give up and I did not want to go on. I thought every negative thought about myself that is possible. What is an old considerably overweight woman like me trying to prove? Why did I think I could do this? You are not in good enough shape. These are just a few of the things that were going through my mind at the time. (I did tone them down a bit. I was much tougher on myself and can't really put into print what I was telling myself).
I am happy to say I did not give up. I did not let that voice trying to resurface get the best of me. I over came, I did have to take a break and I walked for a while until I could breathe again. But I made it! I conquered that demon and I made it down the hill. I did not let myself down and I did not let my team down. Most importantly I had the time of my life over the next day and a half.
I am strong! I can do hard things! I am living my DREAM!
Well I guess you could say that over the last 20 years or so I forgot who I really was in an effort to become who and what I thought I should be. I was still happy don't get me wrong, but I felt off somehow like I was not living my true self.
I now realize that life is too short to not find the truth inside of me and live life to the fullest. I want to realize my dreams and make them come true.
One of the things I started to do is run. This is something I never thought I would love, I still am not sure that love is the word I would use to describe my feelings when I run, but I feel free, yes that is a good word. I feel that everything is up to me, it is just me and my inner voice fighting it out and pushing myself to do things I haven't done before. It is a conflict of mind over old worn out body parts and it is me having to overcome myself. It is me against me and I find that I learn about me more and more when I push myself to my limits. It can be scary, and I am not good at it, but I am doing it and I am learning, growing and feeling free.
In Sept. I did one of the hardest but most rewarding things in my life. I ran-well ran/walked- the Red Rock Relay with 11 other people 5 whom I became very grateful for and close to while living for 30 hours with them in a Suburban.
During my first leg of the relay, I start what was considered an easy run. Well nothing is easy for me and I wanted to give up before I ever really got started. This is where the mind and the body experienced a new obsticle. I had done a few trail runs, but never at close to 11,000 feet and I really thought I was going to die. I could not breathe, what should have been an easy down hill run turned into a moment of hitting rock bottom mentally for me. A time when I thought I would actually just give up and I did not want to go on. I thought every negative thought about myself that is possible. What is an old considerably overweight woman like me trying to prove? Why did I think I could do this? You are not in good enough shape. These are just a few of the things that were going through my mind at the time. (I did tone them down a bit. I was much tougher on myself and can't really put into print what I was telling myself).
I am happy to say I did not give up. I did not let that voice trying to resurface get the best of me. I over came, I did have to take a break and I walked for a while until I could breathe again. But I made it! I conquered that demon and I made it down the hill. I did not let myself down and I did not let my team down. Most importantly I had the time of my life over the next day and a half.
I am strong! I can do hard things! I am living my DREAM!
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