Hey all! Looks like it's been a while since I last blogged. A lot of things have happened since then. I actually decided no to go to CA after all, for a number of reasons. I weighed my options and decided it was a better bet to work with what I had going on in Portland, but definitely not give up on the dream! Recently I was on a local reality show called Wanted 2 Adventure Woman where I was vying to be the next adventure host on Comcast Sportsnet NW. Great experience. Didn't win, but made some great friends out of it, and an awesome girl named Bethy, who is an amazing person got an opportunity to host that show. Was I going to let that stop me from pushing forward??? Absolutley not! Things like that happen to give me more drive... but that is a whole other story.
So to fill you in, last summer I was in a motor vehicle accident. Not my fault. Pretty sure a kid (and when I say kid, I mean an adult kid that's 24) was racing another vehicle, they lost control and came at me straight on, didn't hit me straight on, but definitely shook up my world. Almost a year later, I had surgery on my shoulder from the accident. I became the Head Varsity Softball Coach at Madison High School this year (a dream job for me) so I waited until the season ended to get the surgery. Great season. Great girls.
I am now 5 weeks into the recovery process and I see my DR tomorrow who is hopefully going to give me the OK to release me from my sling. Meanwhile, for a girl who is so active and who ran her first marathon last fall, I have been going crazy cooped up in this contraption that stabilizes my shoulder. I hate running without a purpose with a passion, but I find myself wanting to sprint lines only because I'm told I can't. What is a girl to do to keep active???
It is now officially summer in Portland (after the 4th of July) and I am slowly but surely loosing my bikini body I once had (or like to think I had)... It's funny that you never seem to be content with your body, until you look back at pictures after gaining a few pounds, and that's when you think "Damn, I looked good." Never fails. But that's part of being human, or at least for me.
So in honor of my "release from sling," I have decided that I need to get creative. I want to come up with 365 different ways to exercise in 365 days. That's right. Although math was never my subject, that adds up to one full year of a different daily activity/exercise. Holy crap! That's a lot of different things to do. I hope to keep it free, or at least affordable for the most part, considering I am not made of money. I am going to have to start light, and gradually work into different activities that I can use my shoulder more. Some days might get boring considering I have to come up with so many different activities... but some days might be super fun and crazy (hopefully more days than not)! Once I get the run down from my Doc of what I'm capable of... there's no telling what I'm gonna do... so follow my blog and adventure with me!
So to fill you in, last summer I was in a motor vehicle accident. Not my fault. Pretty sure a kid (and when I say kid, I mean an adult kid that's 24) was racing another vehicle, they lost control and came at me straight on, didn't hit me straight on, but definitely shook up my world. Almost a year later, I had surgery on my shoulder from the accident. I became the Head Varsity Softball Coach at Madison High School this year (a dream job for me) so I waited until the season ended to get the surgery. Great season. Great girls.
I am now 5 weeks into the recovery process and I see my DR tomorrow who is hopefully going to give me the OK to release me from my sling. Meanwhile, for a girl who is so active and who ran her first marathon last fall, I have been going crazy cooped up in this contraption that stabilizes my shoulder. I hate running without a purpose with a passion, but I find myself wanting to sprint lines only because I'm told I can't. What is a girl to do to keep active???
It is now officially summer in Portland (after the 4th of July) and I am slowly but surely loosing my bikini body I once had (or like to think I had)... It's funny that you never seem to be content with your body, until you look back at pictures after gaining a few pounds, and that's when you think "Damn, I looked good." Never fails. But that's part of being human, or at least for me.
So in honor of my "release from sling," I have decided that I need to get creative. I want to come up with 365 different ways to exercise in 365 days. That's right. Although math was never my subject, that adds up to one full year of a different daily activity/exercise. Holy crap! That's a lot of different things to do. I hope to keep it free, or at least affordable for the most part, considering I am not made of money. I am going to have to start light, and gradually work into different activities that I can use my shoulder more. Some days might get boring considering I have to come up with so many different activities... but some days might be super fun and crazy (hopefully more days than not)! Once I get the run down from my Doc of what I'm capable of... there's no telling what I'm gonna do... so follow my blog and adventure with me!
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