A Girl On A Mission

Random picture of the week! Got my hair chopped off! :) I highly recommend Will at Trim Nashville - he's the best!

This week was less difficult than last, thank goodness! I have stopped coughing as much, so a lot of my energy is coming back! I ran a good bit more this week, and on Saturday, I ran 4.5 miles! I haven't done that in a very long time. I could tell that my heart was in better shape than my body in that run. My heart was doing well, pumpin' how it needed to be pumpin', but my legs and knees hated me. Now, every time I get up from my work desk, I can almost hear small screams from my thigh muscles. Multiply that by about 2.3, and that's what I have ahead of me. Oi.

This is the precise moment where the "rubber meets the road." The little perfectionistic man (I'll call him 'Ed') that sits right in between my heart and my head, tells me I can't do this, that I am not strong enough to finish a 1/2 marathon, and this is when I kick Ed's butt by sternly reminding him that I can totally do this, not because I know the outcome of every scenario, but because of the Spirit within me that pushes me through every mile. I am a girl on a mission... and that mission isn't always about me; it's about something greater. You can help live for something greater along with me by donating to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society - a group of doctors, scientists, and all-around geniuses, who improve the lives of people with blood cancers, and are inching closer and closer to a cure. I would be honored to receive your money donation that will go directly to LLS's Team In Training, the wonderful fundraising organization that I am running for. Just click the link at the top of the page, and it's super easy from there! No donation is too small!