Road to 50k Week 16 - Tapering & (My Oppinion on) Danger of Encouraging Complacency vs Action

4 Months in. Dear Lord, we are now two weeks from Race Day. I began tapering this week and had a little too much time to think about other things than training, but more on that in a bit.
Monday found me getting lost during a 5k along the Port of San Diego & Marina with November Project. I ended up doing an extra half mile. Tuesday, my Long Run ended up being a Half Marathon from Pacific Beach into Ocean Beach through the Tidepools over to Sunset Cliffs and looping back around with Hill Street run & running the OB Pier before ending back in Ocean Beach Business District.
Wednesday, we celebrated November Project San Diego's 5th Birthday with an awesome Circus Themed Workout and I doubled up with Deadlift Day PSC at Performance 360 Ocean Beach. Thursday, I was back at Elevation Culture for a 4 Mile Run through Rose Canyon and Friday I doubled up with my DownTown Friday Convention Center Stairs group in a great workout led by my girl Deveney and I followed it up with a 2 Mile Run over Ingraham Street Bridge out and back, which ended in me getting a PR on the North Bridge by 30 seconds, South Bridge by 25 seconds and Vacation Island by over 2 minutes. Woot woot.

I had a chance to discuss my journey and vision for my Fitness Journey and what's next after the 50k with a few people this week and last, and what resulted is a need to change the mindset of people with regards to fitness. This may ruffle some feathers, but before reading on, please know I'm not telling you not to love your body where you're at. I'm simply saying don't settle for an unhealthy life & love yourself enough to want better for yourself.


Ok so here it goes, the minute we stop seeing everything I've done with my weight loss as impressive will be a very necessary & amazing moment in my life.
We live in a time where we preach loving ourselves where we are, we cheer and champion for body acceptance, we have made it to where it is socially acceptable to be unhealthy and we support it. And to me that is dangerous. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying not to love yourself or to not be happy with your body. What I'm saying is don't become complacent, don't become comfortable, don't love your body so much that you forget to love yourself enough to want to become healthier and the best possible version of yourself.
People tell me my story, my journey, my determination inspires them. Thank you but no..no.. No, thank you. You see because the minute we separate what I've done, what so many others have done from this idea of it being impressive, is the moment others will see it's really not impressive at all. All I did was START.
And if we let people keep viewing that as impressive, we actually do them a disservice in saying I did something they can't do. I want my "impressive" to not be impressive but to cause a shift where it's not impressive, rather where its the new norm.
Love yourself where you are by all means, but for God's sake, please don't grow comfortable and stay there.

DownTown Fridays 10.12.2018 - Convention Center Stairs & Core Circuit

Happy 5th Birthday NPSD!!!

DownTown Fridays 10.12.2018