Milestones

This weekend was my mom's 50th birthday, so I flew home to surprise her and celebrate with family.

The surprise was a resounding success, which had me so relieved--I was really worried that I was going to somehow miss my flight or that the surprise would be blown. But everything went off without a hitch, and I had a wonderful 48 hours back east. I even got to go climbing with my brother, which has become one of my new favorite things.

So all that was wonderful. But now it's confessional time:

I've also been a terrible Fit Girl this past week for the last week in the first 2016 Fit Girl challenge. I was super stressed and trying to plan for the trip, so I haven't been eating well. It's also Mardi Gras season, so I went to a parade on Friday and drank too much. Then, back east, I ate and drank ALL the birthday celebration treats, and I drank margaritas and beer on my trip back to Louisiana yesterday.

I ate too much.
I drank too much.
I spent too much money.

And now I feel like crap, physically and emotionally. I'm stressed about spending too much money, and my poor stomach and gut want to know what I have against them. (The answer: nothing. I love my stomach, I appreciate my gut. I should have been better to them!!) This stress and crappy feeling has me completely distracted at work, and I'm slacking off when I should be picking up the slack from being gone this weekend. Which adds to the stress, which snowballs, etc. etc. etc.

So I've decided something: I'm going to try my hand at the February 8th Fit Girl Boot Camp challenge. A dear friend of mine had her book bound and uses it like a diary, and she's raving about it. I held off from trying the Boot Camp program last Fit Girl round because I was starting to train for a 10k, and the Boot Camp is a 12-week program--my biggest commitment yet. I was scared of it, to be honest.

But here's the thing about 2016: This is my milestone year. My mom turns 50, I turn 30, I'm doing the 2016 in 2016, and I'm trying to run another half marathon and train for my first marathon. So I need to be allowed to get scared. I need to be okay with trying things that scare me, because that's how I'm going to grow. That's how we all grow.

So for the rest of this week, I'm going to work on cleansing and detoxing before the challenge and train smart for my race on Feb. 13. It might be scary, but that's okay.

OH, and our team hit our 100-mile milestone! One step at a time.

February's goals:
1. Hit 100 personal miles
2. Finish the Mardi Gras Mambo race
3. CROSS TRAIN
4. Sign up for the Varsity Sports weight loss challenge
5. *breathe*
6. Blog more regularly