Week 4 and feeling stronger with each week...

Success, what does that mean to us?

For some it comes in the shape of success in your career, raising our children, and in sport. For me I try to feel a little bit of success each day. In my job, making sure my customers are happy, and in my running, swimming and strength training. I love the sense of reaching the small goals each day I set for myself. Whether its conquering a better pace per kilometer, or running to the top of a hill and to keep going without any walking. Swimming constantly, getting into a good groove and feel like there is no stress on my body and I am gliding through the water. After each strength session, I am a little sore, but knowing I am feeling stronger and more confident for the day.

This week has been all over the place with doing mainly double training sessions and with going back to running yesterday (Saturday) was awesome, even with it bucketing down with rain for most of the run, and I was still smiling for the camera.

parkrun in the rain, loving life!

My love for running comes from deep with in me and at times is just so hard to describe to people. I sometimes tell people that seven years ago I had a heart attack due to having salmonella poisoning and if I hadn't gone to the hospital when I did I would not be here today. We all go through different things in our lives that make us wake up and see what we could miss if we weren't to be here tomorrow. I guess this is also why I love inspirational sayings so much, the written word can reach such a deep part of your heart and help you to have a better day. 

What makes you feel like you can achieve anything? The compliments from family, friends, colleagues. Something that you read, see, hear, do? What ever it is take it in both hands, your heart, your soul and your mind, strive for that success you dream of. It doesn't have to be a podium finish in a race, or winning lotto (mind you they would both be great), it could be something simple like running continuously for 1 kilometer for the first time, swimming 100 meters and not drowning, getting a certain task done at work that has bothered you for a while. The small successes in your life all add up as does the big successes.

So with another week ahead its time to get back into running during the week, I have a swim session and strength session tomorrow, followed by a 10 kilometer run on Tuesday. Wednesday will be another double up swim and strength, Thursday will be a run, Friday back to a rest day, Saturday parkrun and Sunday will be a long run then into work. Hope for good sunny weather for the week which from what the forecasts are its looking good.

Have a great week everyone and I leave you with this....

Hayley xx