How It All Started

Ok so here we go! I have been wanting to start a blog for a couple of months now, because a couple of months ago was when I started running! After a few miles of your feet hitting the pavement your brain starts to think of all kinds of crazy things! So here I am 130 miles later trying to get out some of those thoughts. Let me just say that I have never in my life been a thin person and when I used to see runners on the jogging path when I drive by, running so graceful I wanted to punch them in the face for thinking that it was a great idea to just go out for a run. When they could have chose option A which would be to sit on their nice comfy couch, in their warm house, drinking hot coco, and watching reality television. Well well well, here is what I get for thinking that! Now I am that crazy person that people drive by in 27 degree freezing temperatures running with my tank top and capris on! I will get into my fitness journey soon but for now I want to tell people what turned me into a "runner".

So a group of people from our small town started a "Running for Water" team with Team World Vision. Team World Vision is an organization that saves lives in villages and communities mainly in Africa and Haiti. People in the U.S. can run marathons and raise money for the organization while challenging their own fitness goals. They are running to raising money to provide clean water for those who are miles from it. Let me say at first I just told my sister yeah sure I'll do it with you, honestly it was because I wanted to complete a personal challenge of running a half marathon, but now after seeing what we are actually running for my mind has changed and it has changed in so many different ways. We are running for clean water for villages that have children who have to walk/hike miles and miles a day to get buckets of water from lakes and ponds where animals drink from, and bathe in, and do their dirty business in. While I was running one day I got to thinking as I was ready to give up and start walking, I can't stop these kids don't have a choice to stop they are hiking these miles for survival. I can at least go wash this sweat off in a hot clean running shower! I can stop and take a drink at the park from a clean running water fountain! Even the poorest of the poor in the U.S. have that option. I have to run for these kids! So I kept running and I finished my 7 miles that day, and I will continue to keep training and keep running to raise money for these children who are putting miles on their tiny feet for survival not for a medal, not for a fitness, goal, but to survive and if I can help and make a small difference then I will do my best and I will run this race for them!
If you would like to make a donation to Team World Vision you can help me reach my goal of 50.00 per mile every dollar goes to these kids and saves lives!
Donate to my team here


Here is a photo from our last long run in our training...... 7 miles and my mom and sis still have this energy! 8 miles is our next long run on Saturday! Stay tuned because I am sure I will have lots to talk about that that run!

and soon I will get into my fitness journey from Fat to Flat because pretty much my boobs disappeared, along with a few pounds of fluff.....