What's on Your (photo) Friday Menu, RNYers?

Yes, triathlons were my secret dream!  I did one pre-surgery, a sprint, that I walked the entire run.  I was hooked but everytime I tried to train I got hurt and quit.  Now I train with a smile on my face.  I am thankful every time I run, bike or swim that my body allows me to do this.  I don't know if I will ever do a full Ironman but it is my not-so-secret dream.  I would also like to run a Disney Marathon.  It's amazing what the gift of surgery has given us!!  

Thank you and you are an INSPIRATION TOO!  You want to do a tri?  I'll come to Canada!

Wow can't believe you did a tri pre surgery, even walking!! Want to know what I did pre surgery in the form of exercise... NOTHING. Thinking about exercise made my brain hurt. LOL LOL LOL

Ok SERIOUSLY... I have talked to my hubby about doing the Disney marathon.  I am so IN!! I think I am going to aim for 2017.  As you know I am Canadian and our dollar right now sucks, to spend the money to go down to the US is pretty expensive for us, so although I want to go next year in 2016, might have to wait until 2017.  We might have to make some plans and have our families come and have a meet & greet & run at Disney!  If it wasn't for the Canadian dollar right now I would have signed up for the Disney run and the Las Vegas run for 2016!!

And yes I would love to do a tri, but honestly it scares me.  I am pretty sure its a major mental block I have.  I was a huge swimmer as a kid, so the swimming part does not scare me, as a teenager I used to bike everywhere and so the biking part does not scare me, its the running.  I am new to running and I get this anxiety every time I run.  This is what goes through my head as I am putting my runners on "are people looking at me, do I look slow, am I jiggling all over, how is my pace, OMG I am sweating like a pig, are people thinking why is that girl running, she looks stupid."  Yes all those thoughts overwhelm me when I go out for a run.  Its madness, but its there.  I blast my tunes trying to drown out the fat girl inside me that says I can't do it. Ok enough of that look into my crazy mind!  

Let me mull it over, but we need to hook up for a run or something.  You are in Syracuse, is that right?  I need to get NCAA tickets for my hubby there and come and visit!!

The surgery does feel like a gift, one I am beyond thankful for.

I am actually in Madison, Wisconsin but I go to Ann Arbor, Michigan every year for a women's only tri which isn't too far from Toronto??

Disney 2017 is a great plan!  I would totally run a Disney race with you guys!!

Come to california and do a Disney run with me!!!  This is Disneyland half marathon weekend and I'm so sad I'm not running. Maybe next year!!

Don't tempt me!!  You may have a house guest next year ;)

Come on out to CA!  As long as you don't mind sharing with a Siberian husky, there's plenty of room!

You ARE the Iron Girl!!  You look wonderful... 

Too bad I can't cheange my screen name ;)  Thank you!

Didn't grim & sparklekitty & a couple others just chg there the other day to add "hag" to their screen names... I was wondering if it was possible also...