Checking In - Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  I hope your 2019 is off to a great start.  I thought I'd fill you in on a few of my goals for this year & give you a long overdue update on my progress for Miami.  It's hard to believe the race is just 2 weeks away!

First, let's discuss goals.  A few years ago, I began a New Year's tradition of picking one word to focus on every day all year long.  This has served me well, rather than trying to keep multiple resolutions.  In 2017, my word was "Nourish".  In 2018, my word was "Transformation".  And my word for 2019 is "Fearless". 

I'm fairly excited about my 2019 word and have already started implementing it into my daily life.  Check out my vision board:

That being said there's another word that keeps popping into my head as I think about my goals for this year.  That word is "Consistency".  I aim to be more consistent in my running, following my HCU diet, and my blogging.  So, I guess I have two words this year!

I'm already off to a good start.  To kick off my year, I signed up for the Zooma Love Run Challenge.  The challenge is a commitment to run or walk a minimum of 1 mile or 15 minutes everyday from 1/1 to 2/14.  I'm now 12 days into the challenge and I'm happy to report that I've maintained a perfect record.  In recent years, I've been inconsistent with my running.  I'm hopeful that starting the year off with this run streak will help make running more of a habit again.  If you'd like to join me, there's no rule to say you can't start your own running streak.  Why not start today!

In addition to the running, I've been consistent in maintaining my food logs - recording my protein intake and my formula.  The food logs have always been helpful in keeping me on track with my HCU diet.  I've been focusing on eating a variety of veggies. To keep things interesting, I signed up for my first delivery from Hungry Harvest which is a farm to doorstep produce delivery service.  (Finally a food delivery service that works for my low-protein lifestyle!)  This fantastic company is on a mission to end food waste and hunger.  Every delivery rescues as least 10lbs of fruits and veggies from going to waste and costs 20-40% less than the grocery store.  Here's a pic of my first shipment which I've already put to good use:

 

 

Now, onto my Miami update, I have good news and bad news.  Let's get the bad news out of the way first.  Unfortunately, my training took a bit of hit during the holiday months.  I'll still be running in Miami, but I decided to downgrade to the half marathon distance.  I hope to run a full marathon this year, but if I'm being honest with myself, I need more training under my belt before I tackle that next 26.2.  The good news is that (thanks to many generous donors) I've already raised over $5,000 for HCU Network America and I'm more than halfway to my goal of $10,000.  If you'd like to help my reach that goal, click here: Kristin's Fundraising Page - Miami Half Marathon

 

Also, over the next two weeks, I'll be posting some amazing stories of HCU Heroes.  I'm so excited to share with you what truly motivates me to keep running, pursuing better newborn screening, dietary treatments, and hopefully a cure for HCU.  Stay tuned - 2019 is going to be a great year!