Roller Skating?

Roller Skating?

Today starts week 6 of my training! Week three for Chelsea, and we are still trying to get mom out, she has been skiing and painting so getting plenty of exercise just not jogging, yet. Here it is January 12 the race is 16 weeks away and I’ve already been able to get my body conditioned to run 7 miles! At this point I feel very confident in being able to cross the finish line. This week the training is 2 miles/weights, 3 miles, 2.5/weights, rest, 5.5 and Sunday cardio/weights. On Sunday I had taken my girls roller skating and my youngest, Lex shot out onto the floor and whirled around with a large smile covering her face. Liv/my older daughter however waited for me to lace my skates up, she held the wall and waited patiently. As we entered the floor it had been a few months for me and I would have loved a few laps to get situated. However, she was latched to me not showing signs of letting go. As we skated slowly around Lex, caught up to us whirling up on my side quickly doing a 180 and looking at me like, “Please don’t run into me” as she feel I felt my entire body go up in the air, it was a surreal feeling like a moment of zero gravity which gave way to sharp pain in the bum area when I landed on the hard ground. The three of us lay on the roller skating floor for a second before trying to move. I was the last one up and today, two days later still in pain. As I stood up and started to skate I told the girls we were not going to hold hands we were going to figure out how to skate together just not balancing on one another. Liv was furious with me to the point I thought she was going to cry and take her skates off. Then after 3 painfully slow laps, something clicked and she was off we enjoyed the rest of the hour got a snack and headed home with both insisting we come again soon. So the actual pain in my butt I’m going to say is completely worth it this time! Pain right now is going to get me what I want in the end, I’ll be crossing the finish line and my oldest will have built new confidence in herself!