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It Could Be You ~ What Domestic Violence Actually Looks Like

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It has been some time since I posted here. I only post when I feel I need or want to. The subject must be important to me in order to want to share my thoughts with the few of you who may read this.   I am pretty sure that none of you know what exactly I do for work. Well, one small part of my job is redacting audio and video for the Police Department. Now that we have body cameras and a new recording system that small part of my job has increased. With that I now see and hear more than I ever did before. This week as I was redacting a case my gut hurt and I felt sick. I was listening to a woman tell officers all the reasons why her former partner would never follow through on threats to her life. All I could think about was Mary. All I could think about was all these excuses mean nothing when one event can end your life. One event that will forever change your friends and family’s life. One event that you never thought would really happen will destroy you and your loved one’s fore

Love at 157 BPM

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Mountain Man Olympic was not on my radar at all this year. I have not raced in nearly a year and had no intentions of racing until 70.3 Austin in November. That is until a weekend Smashfest on Mt. Lemmon with the #bff turn into a race weekend. At first I was F**K YEAH!!! Then I realized a few things.  1. I am not race ready. My nutrition on the Keto diet has been hot and cold on training days. More cold than hot 2. I am so unhappy with where my body is physically I wasn't sure I would even have the endurance to go for 3 hoursish without having to stop. ( Which I hate!!) 3.The last time I was at this race a year ago I had an "episode" that night. I understand that it is unrealistic to think that it would happen again but that slight fear is always with me. SO I did what Heidi does best.... Push those emotions aside and deal with it on race morning. The #bff came up from The Valley on Friday when I got out of work. Great afternoon of eating, olive oil a