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Zoe Fitness | Personal Coach

I’m BA-ACK

Last week was a fairly stressful week, water samples back, we’ll leave that for a different kind of race. Work, closing, etc.  I decided on Friday I needed to “escape”.  I told my environmental consultant if that didn’t work I was going to get drunk.  She thought that was funny.  She also thought the toxins may better help me fight off the other toxins.

So I escaped.  I worked and then I ran away to the North to Isle De Bois.  It’s the very first ride I have done there since I broke my jaw.  I haven’t been there in a half a year.  It’s my favorite place in the whole world.  It’s been so long I didn’t even know I had to renew my States Park Pass.

I was slow as molasses, but that’s OK, bike’s not my focus right now. 

I’m back.

I had more skill and confidence on the bike than I have ever had.  My balance was good.  I rode sections I don’t usually ride when I”m alone.  I dabbed the usual stuff.  Walked stuff, not because I was scared or didn’t feel like I could make it, simply to be safe.  That was different.

What I realized is that is what God has me here doing.  Riding my Mountain Bike.  That’s what God’s purpose is for me.  To ride, and to ride with God.  I recognized that God is with me every step of the way.  That the energy of all things glides me through everything and that all I have to do is trust and not doubt. 

We all have a gift, mine is the mountain bike and how I give that to the world.  And I do a damn good job at it too. 

I made no mistakes, I was smooth, like butter.  I’m sure the off road running is helping, it’s easier for me to unweight and get over stuff.  I just pick myself up over stuff like if I’m running.

To recognize and know and accept what my divine plan is makes life a different playing field.  It’s been there all along, I just needed to accept it.  And now I have, and I have confidence in every movement that I do.

I took Saturday off.  Not really, I unloaded 12 bags of mulch, carried them across the yard, and 1.5 pallets of rock.  That 50 pounds x 75 bags.  That’s a lot of schlepping.  I call that active recovery.  And then, I just wanted to hold my end of my promise to take the monkeys shopping for shoes.  No not that kind of girly shopping.  Their tennis shoes were falling apart, so I bought them new ones.

I swim Lake Travis on Saturday, it will be a big swim and I don’t want to let me team mates down so I’m planning a full taper.  Today I only ran 12.5 miles.  In 1:58.  I kept forgetting that I was supposed to be running fast, so that kind of slowed me down.

Tomorrow I will swim somewhere around a 4000.

At the end of every day I’m always so grateful, tomorrow is a brand new day.