Chasing My Joy

My journey to becoming an Ultra Runner and Ironman

Archives for December 2015

2015.

2015 was a pretty fun year, full of travel, family and love. Here’s a look back at some of the highlights:

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I started a new job early in the year

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Ran on as many Boulder trails as possible

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A quick trip in March to Moab for the Behind the Rocks Ultra

Cory did great on a wind, cold, wet day, #proudwife #BostonMarathon #BostonStrong

Traveled to Boston to watch Cory run the the Boston Marathon

Beautiful morning for a graduation #hopefullynotthelasttime

In May we traveled to Santa Fe to celebrate my graduation

Last workout of the day done! Lots of wildlife out, pelicans, great blue heron, bunnies and one wild pug #IMTraining #IMCanada #WinstonThePug #ironpug

June/July was lots of training for summer races

Bikes racked and ready it's almost go time!!! #teamsoas2015 #weareSOAS #IMBoulder70point3

Ironman Boulder 70.3 brought the heat and the fun

Whisper really is stunning! Also looking forward to getting home and plotting new adventures

July took us to Whistler where my Ironman was cut short by ridiculous weather but it was still well worth the visit

Super inspiring weekend cheering and volunteering at the Leadville 100 #lt100 #ultramarathon #trailrun

August brought more training and volunteering at the Leadville 100 again (I am putting in my time so when my year comes around I will get in for sure!)

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In September we headed to California for Ironman Lake Tahoe

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In October Cory and ran off to Disneyland for one last trip with just the two of us, we knew we were planning on starting a family and everything would change soon

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In November we added a family member in the form of a French Bulldog named Humphry, he is the sweetest little clown

Cory is excited to match our little one for next season #gobroncos

In December we celebrated with family and finally announced that we are expecting a (human) addition to the family in June

Overall 2015 was pretty great but we are mainly looking forward to 2016 and all of the new exciting changes.

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This little blog has been pretty quite the last few months….

Sunny morning miles with my little man #WinstonThePug #run #happy

I never meant to let it sit for this long but you know how things can sometime go. After Tahoe I wanted to disconnect a little and just focus on time with loved ones and getting things done at work.
Then the perfect storm of circumstances hit and I found I had nothing to say and no time to say anything in anyway.
Personally I did want a little break from social media, I stopped posting and even stopped checking in on social media.
Professionally my coworker left for another job leaving a lot more on my plate and much less desire to look at a computer after work.
Athletically both Cory and I were heading into our off season so there weren’t any country roads, mountain trails or sweat drenched intervals to post about.
But most of all there was a shift in focus. Cory and I had been planning for a long time to shift our focus from endurance events to starting a family. We were so grateful to get pregnant in late September but soon after I started to feel awful. I had no energy and quickly became ill most days. While I had hoped that I would run through almost all of my pregnancy that quickly became too difficult to do on a consistent basis so I had little to talk about here.
I am not very good with subterfuge so I decided that silence would be golden until we were ready to tell the world.
I do plan to be back to post a bit about what is going on with my life and pregnancy. But also to live vicariously as I coach my mom to her first marathon in many years and hopefully a BQ and Cory who we are trying to get to a sub 3 hour marathon this spring. While I will talk about my pregnancy and baby after s/he is here I promise it won’t become a “mommy blog” and the overall theme will still be endurance sports. The thing I am most excited to talk about will be my return post baby and the big dreams I will be chasing in 2017.
Cory is excited to match our little one for next season #gobroncos

Cory is excited to match our little one for next season #gobroncos

In other big news we did add a family member, Humphry is a sweet little French Bulldog puppy.
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He has already stolen our hearts and I can’t imagine life without him.
So here is to the secret being out and being back to blogging. I hope you had a wonderful holiday with your loved ones!