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That sums it up!! 10 days until we race. Everything I have is sore. Our workouts were cut by 25% last week and 50%this week. Still everything hurts and I am soooooooo hungry!!!!!!!!!!! Lord help me avoid stopping at every ice cream shop from here to Michigan next week!!

13 Days until the adventure a lifetime and a year has prepared me for and I humbly decide that the focus must shift towards August 20, 2017. So I do all the social media posts for my job and this is what I planned a month in advance for today.... how ironic. I wake up this morning in a not so pleasant way, but decide anyway, that today is the day I get up and look only ahead to the race to come. That first begins with acknowledging all the success this season has brought already, but letting those fade (for now) and focus on the new beast to come. Williamsburg was such a good race for me. Even with the overheating I had a great race and a great win and PR, but that is irrelevant for the days to come. I must focus only on August 20, 2017. I told myself I was wearing the bracelet until they replaced it with my new bracelet, but it is time to refocus, prepare, and celebrate this new opportunity. I am reading quite an amazing book, Furiosly Happy by Jenny Lawson....

2.4 mile swim. 112 mile bike. 26.2 mile run. What is the first body type, weight, or idea of what an "ironman" should look like to you? Throw it away. A. Body dismorphia is REAL! B. Beautiful women are being "fat shamed" because they aren't a size 6 or less. C. What my 170lb body can do is AMAZING and just because I don't fit in the category of what an "ironman" is suppose to look like doesn't mean I won't become one! My definition of what an Ironman looks like consists of 102 miles of training in the pouring down rain while laughing and singing. My definition of what an Ironman looks like is eating healthier than you have in your whole life, watching your body retaliate against you, and still getting up to train strong every morning. My definition of what an Ironman looks like is using your life circumstances as fuel to finish something that is way bigger than yourself or your circumstances. Why do we give ourselves these p...