2 months; 2 five K's

My lovely friend Darla (from my grad cohort class) and I signed up for a 5K Color Obstacle Rush on April 18th. 

I've never been a runner, like literally if I ran, I felt like dying, but a few months prior to this, I started to run in hopes I would develop a love for it and get in shape. The love didn't come (well slightly; emphasis on slightly), but I realized it was a good way to get in shape and it helped prep for this 5K.

Here is the before and after for April...

Almost a month later (2 days short of a month) we participated in the Color Obstacle Rush in Tucson. 

There were some hiccups in the Phx one (like no foam!) and so the company gave everyone who participated in the Phx one the option to do the Tucson one for free.

Darla and I were game...

I have family in Tucson, so one of my sisters and her two little girls were able to come watch and they greeted me with lots of love at the finish line. What a motivator that was!

The color obstacle race was fun... I wonder what's next??

hectic schedules and the most important thing

hec·tic

ˈhektik/

adjective

1. full of incessant or frantic activity. 

"a hectic business schedule"

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   I think this word describes my life, being a 26 year old balancing a full time job in the behavioral health field, going to graduate school full time and attempting to have a semi-normal (emphasis on semi) social life, perfectly. 

   
   

   So often, the dialogue that occurs in my mind is the following; 

   
   

   "Yikes. I'm just so busy." 

   "If I could just find a minute..."

   "How in the world am I suppose to do all this?"

   "When did life get so busy?"

   
   

   To which, I of course, never receive a response. Yet, I spend countless moments stressing about the to-do list at work that didn't get done, or the amount of reading and homework I need to do for class and it prevents me from actually being IN the moment, being fully present, with what I am doing at that time. It's a problem. A problem, I blame on life being so hectic.

   
   

   This past Sunday at church, a video of a busy mom was shown. I've seen it before, but the effect it had on me this time was different. The message from the movie stuck with me:
   
   
   

   "How many things did you get checked off your “to- do” list today? Sometimes, the most important things you do each day were never even on your list. As we help a neighbor or family member, we often overlook the results. You might worry about the things you never get done, but President Gordon B. Hinckley reminds us, “You never know how much good you do.

   
   Along side that message is the conference talk from President Hinckley from Oct 2003, in which one section states : 
   
   
   

   "We all worry about our performance. We all wish we could do better. But unfortunately we do not realize...we do not often see, the results that come of what we do.
   We never realize how much good we do."
   
   How true are these messages? How often do we not realize the effect we have because we are so wrapped up in our hectic life? 

   
   
   

   Sometimes, the things we do are not even part of our hectic schedule, and more often than not, it's the most important thing we can do.