Week four- A Family Affair

Family is the most important thing to me. My parents are the ones actually footing 90% of all the bills attached to this pursuit of running. Needless to say what they can't pay for school they more than make up for in medical bills. I can't count the tens of thousands, maybe more, that my medical bills have added up to and am very blessed to not have to be paying them. I digress...

This week was a big week because it is when I completed the first real "race" post surgery. I walked with my mom in a 1 mile fun run. She was very nervous that someone would bump into me so she stayed close to me the entire way. She gives a whole another meaning to "cute but vicious" because had someone hurt me that day the mama bear would have come out.

and I even wore this on my back

Two of my sisters as well as Mollie, Mikey and Emi walked the 5k that day too (yes, I was jealous). I was also really jittery because I love all that surrounds events like these. The starting line, the pushing through and then the accomplishment you feel after crossing the finish line are a huge rush, even if it is just a walk.

This week in PT I got to start adding in stationary biked rides and light weights to my stretching. It was difficult and sad going from doing leg curls with 45 pounds easily to doing them with 3 pounds and struggling.  Through it all I was reading Tony Dungy's book ,"Uncommon", an this kept it in perspective of doing the base work and keeping a good focus while remembering that God planned all of this before I was born so it must be pretty important that I am going through it now.