She Runs By Faith

"Are you done having kids so you can focus on running now?"   That was an interesting question I received this year though the long distance running thing has been happening for 15 years - before, during all the pregnancies, babies/post-babies seasons, and continues now. :) The iceberg picture below is one of my favorites to illustrate any "thing" that a person is working towards and then recently I read this quote that brings it all together: "When you finally break through the Plateau of Latent Potential, people will call it an overnight success. The outside world sees the most dramatic event rather than all that preceded it. But you know that it's the work you did long ago - when it seemed that you weren't making any progress - that makes the jump today possible." - James Clear, "Atomic Habits" There isn't really anything fancy about this running journey. Just lots and lots of consistency, a pretty substantial injury years ago, m...

Let this be the long-lost race report that never happened at the end of 2024 and also a photo dump of our trip to Georgia! There is so much that I haven't wrote about since Fargo 2024 and prior to that even. I had mentioned my mom's brain cancer diagnosis in May of 2023 and she did pass away in July 2024, now having rest and complete healing as she is with our Lord Jesus Christ.  Since then, I have been doing a lot of life "pruning". What is priority? What isn't? My main priorities are God, my husband & family, and homeschooling - then everything else comes after that. Last February was a rough one with mom's cancer battle, my running pup Ruby dying unexpectedly, and assortment of other things just adding up. I was about ready to cut the "unessentials" of marathoning, Instagram/this blog (my running community basically), and to just do what I absolutely had to do. I was very sad and wanted to give up on whatever I had the option to. That even c...