As I was growing up I was in fairly good shape...okay Pretty GREAT shape actually! I have always been athletic, but not the most athletic person in my class by any means. I played a lot of sports like Soccer, softball, basketball, volleyball, Dance, gymnastics, and cheerleading. I loved being active with my family too. We would go camping A LOT! Roughing it in our blue and red tent, we went hiking and climbing, swimming and biking. We always enjoyed the outdoors which made me the person who can't handle just sitting around. I have to be going going going all the time and I love it! Now that you know how active I am, let me tell you a story of my childhood.
My brother and I would ride our bikes everywhere, literally. Last week of school we'd ride our bikes to school everyday. Then when summer hit we would hop on the bikes when we woke up and head over to good ol' P-town. Yep, Preston, Idaho! When we got there we would meet up with our cousins and friends and take off...on our bikes. We were probably riding our bikes 20 to 30+ miles a day and we loved it. Never broke a sweat, just enjoyed friends, family and the summer. As we started to grow up and get our drivers licenses our summer biking adventures ended and guess what!? I gained 30lbs in a short amount of time, yep. I went from the tiny 110lbs girl to 140lbs throughout high school! Mostly because I wasn't doing any sports in high school because everyone was "better than me." I was not "small" by any means and I didn't really care. Until I graduated.
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| "Bring on the journey" |
Graduation came and so did a "real job". I started working a Pepperidge Farm that summer and enjoyed it but found I was starting to eat healthy meals at work and 8-9 hours on my feet kept my weight down. End of that summer I weighed 120lbs and started dating some awesome men. Then winter came, yep snowboarding took OVER! And this awesome guy, who soon became my husband. After a year(yes we have almost been married for a whole YEAR!) I've managed to keep fairly healthy and happy but this week I decided it was time to kick my lame no job, sitting around, married lifestyle in the booty and start working on 5k, 10k, biathlons, etc.! I am quite excited to start and I have just registered to do the Preston, Idaho Biathlon on the 30 of July(yep end of this month!). So today started training.
I will be doing this blog so I can keep track of what I do and how I feel about everything. Hopefully this will be a fun adventure (:
