Something New

Wow-welcome to the world of blogging Becky! This happened by accident. I was attempting to enter a contest and give a comment. I needed a Google account to leave the comment and this happened! Really though-I have always been curious about blogging.  I am a member of dailymile and sometimes my posts are a little long in the tooth-this would be a perfect place to write my musings.  I do like to write and I do have a journal that I will occasionaly jot down my thoughts. I am not a very private person and I do not mind airing out my dirty laundry on occasion.  I am a wife and a mother-to the best husband and children. I love to eat! I love gardeing and I love to read anything. Music makes me happy and I dance any chance I get.  I like to sing although I sound terrible! I am silly at the best of times but I am very restless. I easily get stressed out but everyone around me marvels at how cool as a cucmber I am.  People think I always have it together but there are days when I feel as though I am falling apart. I am a runner and I believe running helps prevent this from happening.  I am faced with a potential challenge that may take this away from me.  This is what has been eating me for the past few months and taking away some of the joys from the things I love.  In a desperate attempt to halt this I purchased the book "Natural Running" and I bought a pair of barefoot running shoes.  Crazyness. I am the worst candidate possible for this. I overpronate. I have remarkably flat feet. My knees bow when I run.  Sometimes I sound like a clydsdale when I run.  What would posses me to "buy into" this new trend.  I just ran a 30km race in Motion-control shoes. Why the drastic change-well because change is good as they say.  I hope in this case!  I want to try something new.  I have been a runner for several years.  This past fall I trained and finished 2 marathons 6 weeks apart (don't do that!) I love to race at any distance and I have been having dreams of ultras.  Alas-my bad biomechanics have caught up with me. I have spent hours with the chiro, physio, massage therapist, chiropodist and a crummy doc from a reputable sports injury clinic who is putting me through Hell by making me wait 2 more months to have an hip arthrogram done.  I am pretty certain what they will find will end my running for a long time.  My mind has been going crazy the past few months-desperately concocting a plan to keep me moving. I used to be a severe asthmatic and I used to weigh 60 pounds heavier. I am terrified of becoming that person again.  I have recently purchased a few fitness DVDs and I have a spin bike.  I feel like I could fall back on those if need be but what I really want to do is pound the pavement albeit gently. The purpose for the new style of shoes? I want to relearn how to run the way we were intended to run. It may not help me-I hope it does not make things worse but for now it is time to try something new.  NOw I just need to figure out how to get this into blog world for those of you that may be interested to read this!