Bloggin with Kelley: My life with Spina Bifida and much more!!!

Hey y'all!  It's been an interesting couple of weeks since my last blog! A short time after I hit 1,900 miles my knee began to hurt and became pretty swollen. Well I just thought it was how hard I had pushed that day so I kind of ignored it... And then it started to get way worse! So I decided to go ahead and make an appointment with the Ortho and see if we could figure out what was up! Well of course my Ortho I normally see was out of town and wouldn't be able to see me until the next week. So I sucked it up and made an appointment with a different Ortho for the next day. Now anyone that knows me knows how incredibly picky I am about Ortho's! But my leg was hurting so bad that I had to be seen! The day of my Ortho appointment my anxiety was in absolute OVERDRIVE! I got checked in and as I was waiting to be seen I played every worst case scenery over and over in my head.... Finally I was taken back to X-Ray and then to a room to wait for the doctor. I was only in the ex...

Hey y'all!  So this has been one AMAZING week of walkin! I knew at the beginning of the week if I could push myself I would hit 1,900 miles before the end of the walkin week.. So you better believe that is exactly what I did! And it totally paid off because on Thursday morning I hit that magic number! But it definitely wasn't easy at all! Since I had pushed myself so hard the first half of the week when it came time to push and hit the last 2.80 miles my body was not having it! I knew when I started the walk that it was definitely going to be a struggle to finish.. But I was t about to just give up! I told myself it didn't matter how slow I went or how many times I had to stop  I was hitting 2,000 miles! And that is exactly what I did! Surprisingly I didn't have to stop a rest a whole lot but I was SUPER slow! But I pushed thru and hit 1,900 miles walked since November of 2016!!! I was definitely excited about this milestone but to be honest I was even more excited abou...

Hey y'all!!  So last weekend I did a little figuring and came to the conclusion that as long as I can hit between 16-18 miles every week for the next couple weeks I should hit 2,000 miles by the end of July... So that's exactly what I plan to do! Thanks to being able to hit 17.16 miles this week I am now only 114.60 from 2,000! Y'all how crazy is it that by this time next week I will be UNDER 100 miles from 2,000!!  This week has been an AMAZING week of walking! No I didn't hit 3 miles or even 4 miles.... But I have been able to have some of the BEST 1-2 mile times on the treadmill that I have EVER had! If you have been following this blog or know me personally you know I have not been a very big fan of the treadmill this last year! But something clicked this week and I feel like I have FINALLY CONQUERED that darn treadmill!!  After going harder than ever on the treadmill earlier this week my legs were pretty much DONE this morning! But I was bound and determined to get...

Hey y'all!  So this has been somewhat of a challenging week walking wise! My body just couldn't get into a good rhythm this week! Hitting the bigger miles just wasn't happening for me this week! A few of my walks were WAY slower than normal and quite honestly I kind of felt like I was back at square one! But you know what? It's the weeks that you are struggling the most that really show you what your made of! The sign of a true warrior is being able to push thru the struggle and not give up! And that's exactly what I did this week!  It wasn't all bad! Wednesday I was able to get in 2.37 miles AND Thursday I had one of my best treadmill workouts I have ever had! So even though I didn't hit the 18 miles for the week I had planned.... I'm still incredibly proud of myself for not giving up! Oh and thanks to that 16.09 miles I am now only 131.80 miles from 2,000!! So earlier this week I made the decision to back out of the Crop Hop 5K on June 15th. My tenth 5...