I’m in the worst shape I’ve been in 15 years.  Give or take.  I mean, who remembers how fit they were at 19?  But, I’m pretty sure that even in first year of university I was more fit than I am now.  Which is crazy, since two summers ago I was as fit as I’d ever been in my life.  But some things have happened since then.  Her name is Kate and she’s 11 months old.

I stayed in shape through the pregnancy, but since then it’s been really hard.  Now that the one year mark is approaching, my adventure racing teammates are expecting me back.  And I really want to start racing again.  So, I’ve given myself a firm date of late January and a local 24 hour adventure race.  It was the last race I did (at 8 weeks pregnant) and it will be exactly two years away from racing.

Since I’ve never been so out of shape, I don’t know how it’s going to be getting back to race shape.  I can tell you it’s hard to get started.  I said August 1st, but here it is the 3rd, and I’m just now making the declaration. And I went to the gym today.  Have you noticed that it’s hot out there?  Bleh.  Not terribly motivating.

I’m going to be posting the adventure that is my return to fitness and racing. I can’t promise it will be totally gripping, but I’ll try to make it a bit more interesting that simply reporting on my workout for the day and the current aches and pains.

I hope you’ll read along. It will keep me motivated.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS