Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.

It knows that it must run faster then the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up.

It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.

When the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

(I believe this is an African Proverb)

You may have heard this quote a

million times already.

It never gets old to me.

I love it.

Today was a beautiful day!

I reunited with a best friend of mine.

We've been friends since I

was about thirteen years old.

I have not seen this friend

for a long two months.

We met for 30 wonderful minutes.

This friend is there any time I'm

ready to visit.  Couldn't

ask for a truer friend then that!

I have been like many other

pregnant mamas out there

and felt poorly for the first trimester

of this pregnancy.

Today was beautiful!

I felt good enough to go out

for a run.

I laced up my shoes and

took off (slowly, haha).

The breeze was perfect,

the relief hit me right on my first

couple strides.  It was so

nice to have my dear

friend back!

Today I traveled the

beautiful globe on foot

and loved every second of it.

I was slow, out of breath and

quite tired near the end of the

short/long 30 minutes.

Hey, you can do it too!

Take advantage of what you

have been blessed with and go for

a run, or a bike ride, or even

a nice walk.

Get out and get healthy!

I want you to all experience the

same great feeling I had today.

Just do it!

It doesn't matter if you can

only go for 5 minutes,

10 minutes, or even one hour.

You have to start somewhere!

The key is to just start

and do anything!

Work your way up day

by day, baby steps.

Don't forget to drink your water too!

Love it for what it does for you,

not for how it may taste, or not taste.

Jump on board with me

and feel wonderful!

If you have any running

questions feel free to email me.

Or, look at this website I highly

recommend!

http://www.runnersworld.com/

It has a lot of good information.

Many nice tools.

All the way from

learning the right kind of

running shoe you need for your

foot, to finding a training program

to run a road race.

Go get 'em people :o)

I believe in you!