Wow I made it through the first week of school… way back in September and haven’t been back to fill you all in on my life.

The theme of this blog is finding balance.  Well you can say I lost some balance since the kids started back at school in September. Our lives are busy and rather than trying to fill you in on every detail of the last six months I decided I would just start with today.

Today I am in a new place, (but kinda the same), then I was six months ago.  I have been going through the motions but have lost some of my motivation.

I’m still a running mom, but I haven’t been putting in the same mileage I was last year, I have been focusing more on weight training and clean eating 80% of the time, and running just for the pure joy of it.

I think the reason I have lost some of my motivations is because I stopped seeing changes.  Like I have said before I was motivated by numbers and when the numbers stopped improving, I started losing motivation.  When my speed started slowing from the last years race, when beating the miles I ran the week before wasn’t important, when the scale stopped moving, instead of getting better at everything I was doing, I was feeling worse, my numbers were worse, and something was off.  I was feeling tired, run down, grumpy, and did I say tired?

I don’t think I was fueling my body properly, I was running & running but not fueling myself the way I needed to instead of fueling my body like and athlete which is what I was becoming I was still fueling like a chubster on a diet.  It started taking a toll.  You could say I was losing balance.

So the last few months has been more about undoing the damage I did by under-fueling.  I was eating like a person still on a diet, and I suppose it’s fine to eat that way if you are inactive, (but I still have my own opinions on that) I was not fueling for the amount of training I was doing, especially when I was training for my half marathon.

 

So anyway as I was saying I have been focusing more on undoing some of the damage that was done.  I may get more into this at a later date, but right now I just had to get a blog post out.  I have been trying to write a blog post for weeks now, but the task has been daunting to say the least.  When I haven’t written for so long I feel like I need to tell you all about the last six months and all the thoughts I’ve had leading up to this blog post but that would take me six months so I am just starting with today.  Starting fresh.  Kinda good seeing that spring is just right around the corner.

 

So today I am feeling a little stressed.  Not sure why this is happening to me today, but it is.  Logically I know that if I just took some time to do some of the things on my to-do list the stress would be lifted, but instead, I sit here and fret about it.

Some things I am stressing about:

1.  Exercising.  running.  haven’t been doing nearly enough kms for my 10 k coming up at the end of september…

2.  Mckennah going into grade 8.  growing up.  starting a new school.  This is sucking the worst….  (is that a sentence using real words?)  I don’t want to have a grade 8r.  But all at the same time I do.  I love seeing who my kids are going up to be.

3.  Kids starting all their “stuff”.    getting emails about this starting, and that starting, and a practice on this night, and a tryout on this day…

 

 

4.  Summer coming to an end.  I’ve actually enjoyed having the kids home this summer.  We have kept pretty busy and when we have had some down time we have enjoyed it.  I’ve also enjoyed having a built in babysitter and children that are now motivated by allowance.  I’ve been able to go to the gym when I please or a run, leave a list of to-dos and come home to many things on my to-do list checked off.  I will miss being able to jump up and go out by myself.

 

Hmm, when you actually sit down and write all this stuff down it really doesn’t seems as bad as it all does jumbled up in my head.  I guess the best plan of action is to take one day at a time and one task at a time, and have a glass of wine.

 

Hi friends!  We are home from Whistler!  Let me tell you, we had a GREAT week.  We kept really busy and the kids and parents were pooped at the end of everyday.  We had great weather and couldn’t have asked for a better week.

If you haven’t been to my part of the world, Whistler, is a must see at ANY time of the year.  There is so much to do.  I do have to say it can be a little expensive.  Our hotel was free because of a vacation club we belong to so that really helped, but if your hotel doesn’t have a kitchen, be prepared to spend a lot on food.  Our condo had a kitchen so we saved a lot on eating out.

Having said that, you don’t have to spend a lot on things to do.  (Well you can spend a lot on doing things, and some of them I recommend, but you don’t have to spend money everyday)!  There are beautiful lakes and hikes all through Whistler, you can also go for great bike rides on their many trails.  I guess I’ll just let our pictures tell the story of our week.

Enjoy!

 Drinks on the patio!

Bear!

 

 Canoeing!

 

Morning Run with Greg

 Britain flying high!

Britty Horseback Riding

 Her new boyfriend

 going up the mountain

on top of the world!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The views from up here are great, I really recommend taking the gondola up and then hiking down to the chair lift and going to the very top!  There are also a bunch of hikes you can do when you get up there but with Britain we decided to save those for when she gets a little older.

 Peace out homies !