January

One year ago tomorrow (2/1/13) changed my life. I was told that my doctor felt a lump but it probably wasn't a big deal but let's do a mammogram and ultrasound at your earliest convenience because of your family history. I had an appointment within 5 min of leaving the doctors office because I am like that. Now, I feel like I have two ways of looking at tomorrow. One being dreading the memories or the other being I gave my husband a wonderful birthday present. I chose the later. I gave him more time with me. If I hadn't found out about this on his birthday, who knows what could have been. I may have been a three time Ironman with advanced cancer by now and that would have been a different scenario all together. But I have a long life with him ahead of us. So tomorrow, on my favorite person in the worlds birthday, we celebrate him. We celebrate our lives together. We reflect on last year but we move forward into our new life together. We have a great weekend planned with each other and will be having fun with friends. We will celebrate that both of us had a very productive month of January athletically. We will celebrate that we both have a great year ahead of us. We will celebrate being us! On anther note, January gave me a lot of exciting things. I had the first encounters with people who had no idea that I had cancer - that was exciting. I was just Kelly several times and it was lovely. I had my 5 month anniversary from my last chemo treatment and I celebrated by doing an hour on the bike trainer. I traveled for work for 4 days and didn't take a nap the entire time I was away - that is amazing. I also had an entire month of training under my belt. I get to post my monthly mileage again!!! This makes me happy. So, here it is. Swim: 3.4 miles in 2 hrs 24 min Bike: 106 miles in 7 hrs 35 min Run: 50.1 miles in 9 hrs 17 min Yoga: 1 hr Total miles: 159.5 miles in 20 hrs 16 min!!! That sounds good to me. I'm on my way!