How is it gonna go? I have no idea...
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In 13 days I will be running the NYC United Airlines Half Marathon with Kayleigh and Sandy. I am feeling all the feels about it. I haven't run more than seven miles in well over a month (and definitely will not be in the next 13 days), and my foot has been tempermental to say the least. Some mornings (like today), I can run six miles with almost no pain. Other mornings I can barely get through three miles as it feels everything is stiff and just....wrong. After taking yet another 10 days off, I am running every other day, and for the first time in my life, allowing my body and my pain to tell me which end of that I run. In the past, while I was reasonably good at listening to my body, I still always went directly to the higher end of whatever scale I was working on. This year is without a doubt going to involve the least running I have done since I was 14 years old. And yes, that does mean even less than the year I quit running and didn't run a step for three months. I will have updates soon as to what the plan is, but right now, I am doing my absolute best to embrace this situation. To enjoy the bike rides as best I can. To rest many, many extra days and be okay with it. To not have any kind of expectations for goals or numbers. And that's hard, but it's also not. For the first time in many, many years, I am okay with very little running, with not knowing what is coming, without having any kind of plans. So on March 17 I will venture through New York with Kayleigh and Sandy, at whatever pace Kayleigh decides, and I will celebrate with her. I will enjoy and appreciate the opportunity to do this amazing event (and the plogging the day before, check out the link below!), and I will make the most of what will likely be my last race for a while. My heel will probably be very angry the next day, but then I will be gentle with her...as soon as I get to my parents' house with two young kids, that is :) Last night I was talking to one of my best friends, and I said, I don't know what's going on with me; why am I so chill about all this? I am not chill! Yet somehow I am, somehow I know it is going to be okay. Somehow I know the path will unfold in a way that is best for my journey, regardless of whether that involves running or....well, I don't know if I can quite say those words, your brain filled it in for me! I am still a runner, even if I am not running. I am still the same person, even if I lose a part of me for a while. I am still a good enough human who matters in this world. I know that, and I hope you know that no one part of you makes you "you" either. You are multifaceted. You are full of passions (even if you have temporarily lost them). You are perfectly imperfect, just as you are. This week on the Running For Real podcast...Here's the official description: Ian Gonzalez is a trailblazer. He co-founded 7 on Sundays, a run crew on Chicago’s South Side, an area where running as a pastime had been virtually nonexistent. 7 on Sundays created a community of runners, but there was nowhere for them to buy running shoes, clothes, or nutrition. Ian filled that void by opening Last Lap Cornerstore, the only running store on the South Side, and the only Black/Latino-owned running store in the city. He was forced to close the store, but is determined that Last Lap will return to serve the area’s runners. Here's the real deal: Ian and I ended up going in a different direction to what I anticipated, but it was a conversation that was really powerful and needed. If your life is veering away from what you thought it was going to be (or wanted it to be), this is the episode for you.
If you are in our sustainability focus group, the zoom chats are this week: Tuesday, March 5 at 2:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, March 6 at 7:00 a.m. ET Thursday, March 8th at 8:00 p.m ET If you wanna be involved (no, you do not need any experience with sustainability; in fact, I would rather you didn't), reply to this email and I will send you the link. Look forward to seeing you! I received this email last week: Hi Tina, Sometimes emails, messages, and notes like this come in at just the right time, when I was feeling some imposter syndrome. The universe drops something in to us to keep us on our path. If you have been thinking of a training plan for your next 5k, 10k, half, or full marathon, you can check out our plans here:
Running the United Airlines NYC Half in New York? Come join Kayleigh, Sandy, and me for a plogging event on Saturday! You can sign up here. As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being." — Rachel Archelaus Thanks to our partner, AG1If we have been friends for a while, you might know I’ve been drinking AG1 for about five years. When I started drinking AG1 daily, I could feel a real difference in my daily health, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally, knowing that I was taking care of myself. Especially as a parent, I am not always able to get in all the nourishment I need...as much as I might tell myself I will as I lie in bed each night, ha! AG1 is a Foundational Nutrition supplement that supports your body’s universal needs like gut optimization, stress management and immune support. Since 2010, AG1 has led the future of Foundational Nutrition — continuously refining their formula to create a smarter, better way to elevate your baseline health. Not only did I replace my multivitamin with AG1, but I love that every scoop also includes prebiotics, probiotics and digestive enzymes for gut support.
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