Running on Rocks

My whole life I've wanted to be a competitor. I was a sprinter when I was young. I could run on rocks barefoot and beat anyone I ran against. There's one day I'll never forget when I was challenged to an unofficial race against a boy who later went on to win the state sprinting championship - I beat him! I grew up on a farm in South Dakota where I worked hard. We lived so far from town that staying after school for any extra curricular activities was nearly impossible. I had to get up early to do chores and come home from school and do more chores. My whole life was working on the farm. I credit all the heavy lifting of feed buckets for the animals for the foundation of my muscles. I loved that life, but I didn't have the opportunity to explore my athletic ability as much as I wanted. My dream was to go into ballet, but because of the beliefs of the church my family attended, I was not allowed to dance and was signed up for piano lessons instead...for five years. Needless to say, I did not excel in that.

Now, for the first time in my life, things have come together - my attitude, my support system, my finances, my determination - to make it possible for me to shoot for my dreams - to challenge my body to do things it has never done before and I just want to shout out that I'M LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT! Yes! I'm not going to let age stop me. There's a fire burning inside me and that can't be put out. I feel better at this time of my life than I ever have before - sore muscles and all!

Watch me train!

Lifting weights, running on rocks, I love it all!