Starting Over!

Well, a lot has happened in the past year since starting my blog. Obviously, my interest waned a bit as time went on, but I'm ready to come back start fresh. Lots has happened in the past year: I ran my first (possibly only, but more on that later) half marathon, got married, moved into a new house, and started a new job. All great things, which were overshadowed a bit by being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. RA is an autoimmune condition where your body basically decides it hates you and makes things terrible.

So, with the RA diagnosis, I stopped running. Really, I stopped doing much of anything besides snacking on Sweetarts and complaining which parts of my body parts hurt most. However, with a lot of medications, I am considered to be in remission! Good news all around. I still have some pain and am stiff when I wake up, but I am nowhere near as bad as I was when I started.

With that being said, of course exercised waned a bit over the past few months, resulting in weight gain and lack of energy. However, it's time to blog again and keep myself accountable. So, I will be using this space as a way to update myself on my progress. My doctor gave me clearance to run, but I'm supposed to scale back and only do half of what I did before. While I'm signed up for a half in May, it most likely won't happen, but I'm hoping to do a few shorter races instead.

It's good to be back to writing :)