This YouTube link is the video that my RPM class made this week!!! I love these guys!!! They make my training so much fun and my lifestyle change so much easier for me.
I wake up at 4:30 to get to this class in time to put in a great workout. When people first hear how early I wake up, they all have the same reaction that I’m becoming accustomed to.
Sorry guys, this is fun and I don’t care if you thinks its crazy!!!
They keep telling me its supposed to get easier with time. I’m still waiting.
This is my baby brother, Donny. We were as thick as thieves. We were each others biggest fans and each others nastiest hecklers. He was my baby doll. He was my first best friend.
I miss him so much. If you are reading this right now and are lucky enough to have your siblings still living.. Go right this minute and hug the day lights out of them. If they push you away and ask you why you’re doing that… Simply say “it’s because Myssie can’t hug her brother like this anymore and I never want to take this for granted.”
And this is my triathlon coach!!! I thought I was all that by keeping up with her at the Arbor Day race. But take a real good look… I’m on a super slick road racing bike… She’s on a mountain bike. Punting it bluntly… She’s just slick period.
There he is! The man who made my “Mimi”!!! So for all my San Antonio TEAM… If you ever find yourself wondering how I got this all done so well.. Look to this guy for help. I honestly could NOT have done this without him!!!
Find him at Wally’s Bike Shop
No filters. No photoshop. No messing with it at all.
I had the guts finally to try Mommas earrings on today and wanted to see how they looked so I got my phone and took a picture of them and instantly noticed the glow around them.
These are my little signs that tell me she’s still here. Now, I don’t want to take these earrings off.
Would you?
This last year, I’ve been told several times that I was an “athlete” and I cringe each time it is said. It makes me think back to a very vivid memory of mine while I was in second grade.
We were picking teams for Red Rover. I was one of the last two. Yep, you guessed it… I was the last picked because I was clearly the weakest link. I was the least athletic.
Last week, it all changed. A brave, courageous fireman chose me to be on his team for Erica. I can’t say for sure that I was the first one he thought of to do this with but it’s enough for me to be chosen.
I met Erica early last year. We were just starting our run journey together when she announced to our run group that she was diagnosed with cancer. She was one of our own. She was one of the Run, Walk or Crawl girls that had pushed me further than I ever thought I could go. She pushed me.
Now, I’m pushing her. NEVER EVER GIVE UP.
Read the photo attached here. You don’t have to be as crazy as Mario and I are but please, I beg you, do SOMETHING. Give if you can.
This is my TEAM. There is no I in TEAM. I spent every Saturday last year with them. When my Sissy died of cancer in September, they were there. When my Momma died in April, they were there.
They hardly knew me, the quiet girl who cried at every mission moment and smiled during every run. They all ran for a cure.
Each of their runs have helped someone out there get treatment, research, awareness… And helped heal me. They helped heal my sorrow, my unhealthy habits, my emptiness.
I run with my TEAM. My TEAM runs for you. There is no I in TEAM.
But there is in triathlon!!!! And this is how I….. I will do my own little personal part. I will try harder this year.
I will TRI. And my TEAM will be there for me and for you and for the rest of this world.
Go team!!!
This is Sarah. She is my honored hero.
The Team just gave her a Valentines Day goodie bag. From the look on her face, it’s pretty clear cancer is not the first thing she’s thinking about and that makes me feel like this was soooo worth it today!!!
P.S. I was the only one that she hugged and said “I love you” to today. I feel so very special 🙂
As crazy as it may sound, all my little “signs” have pushed me along a path of adventure I would never have had the guts to attempt and incredible people I would never have met. People who have all deeply touched my heart in all the best ways possible.
I’m cheating a bit here. Pictures say a thousand words but for a few of the people who I’ve intended for this to be written for… I won’t have a picture for them. For those people, pictured and not pictured… I am so very grateful you are in my life. My life has meaning and purpose beyond what I ever imagined because you have made it that much more grand.
I truly believe that the impossible no longer exists. For that… I have nothing but hope and faith for Sarah (pictured in the first photo)
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