What's Your Dream?

Chocolate medals! Cupcakes anyone!?                                               Today I had the pleasure of volunteering at the Mud and Chocolate half marathon in Redmond, WA! Not only was I able to volunteer but I got to do the best part of the whole race, I was able to hand out medals to the finishers! I got to hand out the chocolate medal with a chocolate bar to each participant. My friend Shannon handed out that the actual metal medal to the finishers. I felt that I have become a taker instead of a giver when it comes to doing things that I love and in this case that means races. I have run close to 50 races and I have never volunteered until today. It was really something special to watch each participant cross the finish line and complete their own goal for their own reasons. One particular lady was overwhelmed with emotions and fell to her knee...

I am about to start my second week of complete craziness with my work schedule. To help get me through it I am calling on all ya'll to help! I don't want to give in and just work the whole week without working out. I want to hunker down and get some great workouts in! Now sticking to my schedule might prove impossible like this last week but I did manage to stick with most of it. Planning it out and sharing it with you really helped me stick to my guns and get out there and do the work!  Here is this week's workout guideline: Sunday - 6 miles Monday - 30 Strength Tuesday - 13.1 Mud and Chocolate Virtual Run Wednesday - Rest Thursday - 30 Strength and 3 Miles Friday - 6 Miles  Saturday - 30 Strength and 3 miles Total Miles = 31.1 Total Strength = 3 x 30  I am striving to reach an average of 30-35 miles a weak through the end of the year. And in order to complete this task I feel planning out all my runs will only help me reach my goal. Tomorrow m...