Then life fell apart in 2018 and remained that way for years.
No reason to go through everything. We all have gone through shit. And if you're reading this, you might know about some of the stuff I went through. I remember posting a few things on IG for awhile.
Am I doing better? That's the million dollar question. Physically I'm able to work out again. Mentally, I'm scarred. I was depressed and was dealing with anxiety. Then, I kept spiraling. But yes, I'm better now.
I'm a shell of my former self. That's probably why I haven't blogged and why I left social media years ago. I didn't want to put my issues on anyone. I mean. Come on. We all went through COVID. We have all lost family or friends, struggled with Cancer, struggled with divorces, kids leaving the house. We all are dealing with our own battles.
The past few years were nonstop start, stop, start, stop, and on and on.
But here I am. 2024.
So far this has been a downer post. That wasn't my intent. Really. 😂
SO. Let's see if I can do a short recap. I've never been a short recap writer. I can write pages about running a 5K. But, I'll give it the old college try.
Work has been great. Since COVID, we've had explosive growth. During COVID, we made some strategic moves that were high risk, but they paid off. As Mr Tea says about that time "When everyone was zigging. We were zagging".
Speaking of Mr. Tea. He lost both his parents of over past few years. His dad in June 2018 and mom on Jan 1st 2020.
Remember JMan and Slin? JMan is 30, and Slin turns 29 this year. JMan is married to the wonderful SmileyGirl as Mr. Pitts calls her. He works in the world of sports betting. His company is a software company that does statistical analysis (and other things that are way over my head) for DFS. Slin works with us and is an absolute whizz with SEO and product development.
In Jan 2020, Mr. Tea had been wanting a new dog. (Our 2 had passed away). We adopted Dobbs the Terrible for his birthday. Dobbs was 15 weeks old when we got him and had been through a lot of trauma. He IS a lot of dog. At 90ish lbs, he is strong and powerful and energetic. We have had to work with him extensively. While he loves people, he will never be able to be around other dogs. We've been through many dog trainers. The last one told us "He'll never be a dog park, dog. But you got him to be neutral to other dogs on neutral territory. That's the best we can hope for". Much of this is due to the trauma he experienced very young; we suspect, based on what we know.
I'm try to decide how much to share. 😂
I'm at square one again. You know that saying "You don't start over. You start from experience". I can tell you that's absolutely true. Starting over...and over....and over when I had years of experience behind me, really helps. No matter what my pace is or what my power output is, I know what "hard" feels like
I know how "easy" is supposed to feel.
But I'm not "training". Don't think for one second that I am. Mr. Tea has even said that he would love to see me race again knowing that I was racing so sick back in the day. It's incredible to think that I accomplished what I did, looking back. Nowadays, I don't have the energy or desire to train that hard.
Speaking of looking back. I wish I had given myself more credit for what I accomplished as an athlete. But, there was always the next goal to chase. Instead of taking the time to appreciate what I had done, I keep moving.
I left Strava for awhile, but lately, I've been posting random workouts.
Finally, we have a big exciting thing happening. But, I definitely don't want to go into details until it's done. It has been going on since Feb and has given me major stress off and on. But we are almost at the end. I'm starting to get excited. So 🤞.
That's my update.
The only question left: Do I post this on FB where I used to have a small but dedicated group of readers? Or leave it for random internet surfers?
