The Rugged Goldilocks – Day 2
In 11 short days, I will face my biggest challenge yet…a 5k obstacle course containing 25 obstacles, most of which involve mud. Many around me will be drinking beer. This is a relief because it makes it all a little less serious, especially if I make a fool of...
An Unlikely Contender: The Rugged Goldilocks!
The Challenge: Participate in and complete the Rugged Maniac, a 3.1 mile obstacle course with 25 obstacles, including a 3-story water slide, a fire jump, crawling through mud under live wire, a climbing pole, tilting monkey bars over a mud pit, dodging swinging...
Transformation
If you saw a picture of me ten years ago, you would not recognize me. So here it is. The picture below was me in 2007; 12 years ago and two years before I had gastric bypass surgery. On April 7, 2009, I had gastric bypass surgery and proceeded to lose 155 pounds....
Transformation Part II
Here I was in early 2018, 50 pounds heavier than when I married my husband in 2011, but still 100 pounds lighter than before I had gastric bypass surgery in 2009. What was I going to do? I needed to find a way to lose the weight and get healthy without going on a...
Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.