Fitness

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2-03-2008 DEBBIE BROWN (AGE 47) TRAINS for EVENTS…..

Happy and Healthy Trails…..

My journey to a Marathon started very innocently………….

” I am not an ATHLETE or a HEALTH NUT !!!”

The kids were young and demanding. I needed space as I was a “stay at home” mom. My frustration lead to desperation. I needed an
outlet. My neighbor had the same lifestyle as me and we agreed to walking for an hour a day during the week days, before our families would wake up and the demands would start. This became a wonderful lifestyle change. I felt so much better! Wow, my own time. My attitude was positive when I would return home, my body felt much better and I was being consistent!! One of the most important things to this life style change was, I had found somebody I could count on to be ready and waiting to walk every morning! Even if I was tired, I knew my partner would be there and I was motivated to do my part.

This continued for about a year, then she moved. Since I had done this long enough, anytime I would stop for a week, my body would be yelling at me to get back out there, I found myself constantly searching for different partners to keep this thing going. It worked! After my walking for about a year and a half, one of my walking partners, that was also a runner, asked me if I wanted to do the L.A. marathon. I asked her if she was crazy? I told her that I was not an athlete and I don’t run! She said that her and her sister and her friend Carla, we’re going to just walk it for fitness sake and that she said she thinks I would do great. So, scared to death, off I went. That was 11 years ago. I was amazed that my body could do that. This challenge lead to much more as her friend. Carla and I started walking and Carla taught me about balanced nutrition and encouraged me to plan my next goal.

This has now become my hobby and I am very thankful for all I have learned, so I feel I need to share my journey to encourage other people searching for a more fit, happy & healthy life. I am 47 years old now and I am fabulously fit, Happy and Healthy!.
I continue to walk/jog/hike with a walking partner 5 days a week. I continue to enter Marathon’s/Ultra’s so that I motivate myself to continue my walking/aerobic routine. If I can do this, anybody can. So I challenge you to find a partner and plan your goal and you too will be Happy & Healthy!!

Debbie Brown, Ridgecrest, CA

Are You Cute? You Are?

          HEAL for HEALTH

We need to HEAL in order to have HEALTH ….. Health reveals a balance in Body, Soul and Spirit.

A health-ful guideline to consider:

Help:  

         Help yourself first….The gift of health starts with a personal quest to be at your best.

Encourage:

    Encouragement is done by renewing your mind to dream bigger than you . Look at

                      things not as they are, but as they can be.

Action:  

      Decide to take action in what you want and then stay with it, never deviating from 

                      your course no matter how long it takes, or how long the road, until you have 

                      accomplished it. 

Love:    

      Live on verbal expression that promotes graditude, encouragement, kindness, recieving,

                     serving, effective, optimistic, hopeful, inspiring, imparting and improving.

Through : 

    Those who Walk about the past are going backward. Those who Walk about the present

                     are just maintaining. But those who Walk about the future are

 growing through the window of opportunity.

Healing:  

   Head for healing as a life pursuit—As  your journey, goal, desire, love and desination.

                     To seek healng is a love walk— Love yourself  everyday by shaking off the old patterns

                     that made you sick…..adding joy and love in your in everything you do….

                                          FOR HEALTH’S SAKE…