The pause was meant to be three months and I am coming up on a year. I cancelled all races, put my Garmin watch on the shelf, refuse to be measured, and remain just trying to get the basics in order.

So here we are on our Anniversary doing an annual fall hike up Blueberry Mtn (part of 52 with a view) and post hike pizza at Schillings Beer – happy as can be!

Sometimes I go out for a run on a Sunday and can only just walk. I am exhausted from work and from travel and from being lonely with remote work. Although COVID was 3 yrs ago now, I don’t think everyone has recovered from it to resume their lives as before – our communities have grown smaller and I need to enlarge mine again!

I have been paused from serious training but am still fighting the good fight. It has been a busy year and I just need a real break. It is hard to work on my community post covid when I am too tired to move after work!

Some highlights from this busy last year include:

• Growing food with my new Aerogarden
• Returning to the New Orleans Jazz Fest
• Going to the Arnold Strongwoman Competition and getting my picture with the amazing Rebecca Roberts
• Spending quality time with my sweet mom and sister
• Heading to Chile to deal with a work situation in the mountains
• Cleaning up the neglected garden from several years of training all weekend. We had some major hauls of branches as I downed huge shrubberies at the edges.
• Getting stronger at crossfit
• Going back and forth to DC for work – found the Exorcist stairs in Georgetown! Love my team, my boss, and people I work with
• Went to Jazz Fest – first time post covid – with Kenny
• Creating the best meeting ever in Chamonix France for our first Global Service Summit
• Traveling to CA and AZ/TX to spend time with my team
• Restarting tennis lessons

Worked hard falling off boxes, doing cleans, ripping hands at crossfit! Watch out Nobiz 100, I’m coming for you!

the sweetest, bravest, strongest woman Rebecca Roberts!

Chile! Ride to work….Colleagues Allan and Miguel

My great team! From ~10 to 50 people and The Exorcist stairs in DC…

My sweet boys and mom (chiggers!)

Best meeting ever in Chamonix, France

Fighting the good fight counting down days until I have 2 weeks in Belize Scuba Diving :)…..then two weeks in Roatan at Xmas…..then two weeks in Maldives in February…..then my life will never be the same!