Friday, September 11, 2009

The Home Stretch

So, all of you by now know that Toby is running for Tribal Council. We have one day until we find out the outcome of this election. We find out tomorrow evening! YIKES! We are both so excited, nervous, anxious...and all of the other emotions that you feel while waiting for something that you have poured heart and soul into! The campaign trail turned out to be a little harder than I think either of us expected. However, it was a great learning experience and I now fully believe that we are not only stronger individuals because of it, our relationship is stronger as well. We have learned to communicate better, to lean on each other when times are hard and most importantly, we learned to cherish time together...of which we didn't have very much of over the past 6 months! We will all cross our fingers and wish him good luck.

I too, had a goal I was working towards over the past 8 months and completed mine August 29th! I ran Hood to Coast. For those of you who haven't heard of this, it is a 196 mile relay race (with 12,000 participants) that you run with 11 team mates. It is the largest relay race in the nation and takes around 30 hours to complete. Starting at Timberline Lodge and ending in Seaside, each team member runs 3 legs ranging from 3-8 miles per leg. My 3 legs equalled 15 miles. I ran a 7.25 mile leg through zig-zag & Welches at around 3:30pm, 3.5 mile leg at 1:45am into Scappoose, and a 4.25 mile leg at 9:30am in Jewel. They were all challenging in different ways (I wondered what the heck I was doing this for while running in pitch black darkness at 2am)and I am proud to have completed them. It forced me to push myself not only physically but mentally as well and I believe it was a good reminder that we can accomplish just about anything we set our minds to. It is very empowering! My sister, Deb, was just one of my team mates and I am so proud of her as well. We had a fun group and I can't wait to do it again....well maybe!

My wish is that the next time I make a post, I will be telling you all that we have a new Tribal Council member and his name is Toby McClary! :)