This year I’ve been accepted as an ENELL Race Ambassador to promote my favorite
athletic gear, and ENELL is sponsoring me in my first Olympic-distance
triathlon (happening May 22) and at the Plano Balloon Festival Half Marathon
this fall. The Olympic distance means I’ll be swimming a mile in a lake
followed immediately by bicycling 25 miles and then running 6.2 miles. I’m
definitely nervous about the undertaking, but training is going well so far.
I’m looking forward to a
Labor-Day-weekend family reunion (that’s Mom’s mom’s side of the
family) in Nebraska and taking a few extra days to visit my best friend in
Omaha. I’m still living in Richardson with two housemates and three cats and
loving it.
December marked four years working
for my company. This year I joined the
health and safety committee at work to generate ideas for workplace wellness
and safety initiatives. As fond as I am of fitness in my personal life, it’s
especially important to me to make sure the company’s ideas are safe,
inclusive, accessible, and equitable for everyone interested in participating.
After performing in the DFW Vagina
Monologues stage production for two years, I chose to work behind this scenes
this year as a producer for the show, submitting promotional information to
local publications and helping out with our fundraising events. This year we
raised $2,300 for Hope’s Door, a domestic violence shelter and community
outreach organization in Plano, Texas, putting our total fundraising in the
last three years at over $6k!
I just
went to Galveston this weekend with little brother for a beach getaway.
We had a blast at the Moody Gardens ropes course and zipline, got ice cream at
the old-fashioned ice cream parlor and confectionary on The Strand (La King’s),
swam a bit in the ocean, and visited the Pirates! Museum and its neighboring
haunted house. I also got up early Sunday for a long training run along the
seawall. There are many more attractions we’d like to see, so I hope we get to
go again before summer gets too hot.
How is 2016 treating you so far?
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