Happy New Year!! Welcome 2012!! I Embrace You!
I thought I wanted to do a ‘year in review’, until I began reading my blogs from last year:
This is from:
January 2011:
” I fell to the ground twice on my morning walk in tears because I was so dizzy, and nauseated, and my brain had burn. That’s pretty normal for around these parts, for me anymore. My lung capacity was awful.”
February 2011
“As many of my internet readers and friends know, I have been sick beginning May 12th and something to do with the Gas Drilling has been making me sick.
A few weeks back, I was skin tested for sulfur and it elicited all the same symptoms I have when I am around Drilling/Fracing/Processing sites. I have developed a pretty severe reaction to sulfur. I do everything I can to function on a daily basis, but at times it is totally debilitating. I do longer run or bike from my house anymore, if I do it’s very rarely.
My main symptoms are decrease lung function: to blow test failure.
Lack of balance, which results in me stumbling all around my house and walking in to walls.
Lack of concentration
Headaches/Migraines
Weird cramping in mostly my legs, very deep by the bone, no ‘normal’ cramp.
Skin lesions/pocs/and dry skin areas
This is what I deal with now on a daily basis.”
So I’m going to put that out here, that’s not the way I want to end up remembering 2011,
until my book is published.
I moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico so I could run and bike from my front door. It’s awesome! There’s some things that I don’t take for granted anymore:
Being able to breath.
Being able to walk a straight line with my eyes closed.
Being able to remember what I did 5 minutes ago.
Getting a headache because of dehydration. (I do sometimes get headaches, when I’m being subjected to chemicals/cement processing/sulfur springs/etc)
Despite the negative things that happened in my life in 2011, I realize that all things happen for a reason, and that being in the 1% is actually the best thing that could happen to me. Each of these things is my blessing.
Blessings come in packages you never expect.
So we should never be mean to people or be judgmental because everything is a blessing, even if it may be in disguise.
2011:
Qualified for Xterra World Championships
Kathy Hudson qualified for Xterra Worlds and was invited by Team USA to compete in the 1st ever ITU off road Triathlon and
Won a Gold Medal.
I ran the Leadville Marathon
Rich Szechy qualified for the 24 hour World Championship
Alyssa Journey qualified for Xterra Worlds
Rey Vera went to Category 1 XC, qualified for Nationals and got Top 10 for TMBRA
Mike Hjalmar Beijl competed in his first Duathlon and is getting ready to run his 1st half marathon.
Justin Berndt raced his first ever ultraendurance race: Cascade 100(and 6) Top 20 in Open Category. He also rocked a Top 10 finish in Bend, Oregon at the USA Cycling Marathon Mountain Biking National Championships
Tiffany Armstrong committed to the process of getting fit, and is more active now than in a very long time.
Michael Winegar took about 30 minutes off of his Palo Duro Marathon time.
Oscar Vera went from thinking he was in shape to being in shape and actually racing 2 DORBA events.
Great job everyone!! These are just some of those I coached in 2011, the athletes who represent Team Classic/Zoefitness have done an equally impressive job in their endeavors from getting more trail, redoing trail, and some great results too!
I am very much looking forward to this New Year. Life is such an adventure, and there are so many roads.
- I know we will be reunited as a family, under our terms and conditions,
- I know the American People will elect a president who will not abolish the EPA and leave Industry to ‘police themselves’ and make more people, like me, sick.
- I will hopefully get to run my 50 miler, and do at least 2 Half Irons
- Enjoy the American College of Sports Medicine conference in San Francisco
- Conveniently get my USAT certification, can’t wait!
- Have a 2 day Altitude Hill Climbing Clinic
- Help more people reach their goals with their athletic endeavors: ‘the athlete within’
- Host a Running Clinic
- Get Faster and Go Longer.
- Re-Learn French
- Get in another 20 + days of skiing this year.
- Hike/Run the entirety of La Luz
- Compete in and Finish a NMES event
Life is too short to focus on the negative. That’s what I notice is most people’s problems. When we harbor on the negative, it only allows the Universe to give us more negative. We we can see the light, in things that seem to ‘be negative’ we become enlightened, and good things happen to us.
Blessings come in packages you never expect.
Like you.
Happy New Year!
-‘With Love in the Dream, it will come True’