The snow is melting and the sun is coming up earlier and earlier.
I. Love. Spring!!
The running is going good. Had a swim yesterday and it was a gong show. The two guys I swam with have egos the size of this province. I was so angry with them, I left the swim practice. When a swim becomes fricking DANGEROUS as in they are swimming abreast and there is the possibility of knocking heads or hands or getting hurt...I am outta there.
When I am looking towards summer, I have no interest in doing triathlons this summer. None. I am registered for the Great White North Half Ironman and when I think about the training and the work that has to go into that day...I am really not into it. I am going to roll my spot over to 2011.
There are so many other things I want to try. And I really am not into being tired after long runs and bike rides and going through the weekend in a haze because I would really like to have a nap but my kids want to do stuff as well. I want to relax. I want to do things because I feel like doing them and not because I have to do them. I want to stay fit but not put all the time into it. I am very much looking forward to this marathon in April and then I am DONE!!! I am going to take it easy and jump on my bike for some nice rides in the sunshine, go for runs along the river with no goals in mind. My kids want to try every sport invented...they are registered for soccer, they will continue with their TKD, Matthew wants to take golf lessons.... I want to do these things with them. I want to build a deck in our back yard...I want to have many beers on that deck!! I am not even going to let myself be talked into a relay this summer. Done. Done. DONE!!! My Dad always used to say the difficulty in hard decisions is making them. I did not find this decision hard at all...it feels like the right thing to do and I feel like The Universe has other plans for me this summer...and I can't wait to see what they are!!!
3 comments:
Good for you Kelly -- your dad is absolutely correct. It is so easy to get sucked into doing *what you think you should be doing* instead of following your heart.
I am so proud of you for making a firm decision. :) :)
Amen, sistah, I hear ya on this. Burnout is very real and all consuming. I admire your courage to go forward in pursuing happiness instead. Especially because drinking beers on the deck is a byproduct of that-heck yeah!
And why shouldn't you try different things? You are so young that you could go through a bunch of things before you find the One True Thing for you that you love doing. Then you'll know what it is, and be able to spend the next bunch of decades doing it. Have fun with the hunt.
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