#Mothers

A fun weekend spent with my mom shopping for new items for my house now comes to an end and I sit here engaging in a group text with a bunch of “moms” as we sign up officially for Go Ruck. Our group is going to “rock it,” in the words of Shelby, and I’m excited to be joining the toughest mothers I know on this amazing adventure. (They’re bringing their hardcore husbands with them of course, some of whom are Army and have been through far worse than what is entailed in this event.)

I wouldn’t be doing this event if it weren’t for Shelby though, so I’m very thankful to join her and her mama friends as we embark on a 20 mile, 12-18 hour daylong event based off a day in the special operations selection process. Shelby and I go back twenty three years to when our families lived near each other in Fort Bragg. Prior to that our dads were also fraternity brothers at Florida Southern University, her mom and my dad went to high school together, and our grandmothers played bridge together. Crazy awesome connection, right?!

Shelby is the reason why I COULDN’T WAIT to do my first Tough Mudder by the way. She is 7 years older than me, married to a wonderful man with 3 children, Ari, Chloe, and precious little baby Beckett, and she does all these hardcore adventure races that are true butt kickers! She recently conquered a crazy weird illness during a difficult pregnancy and will now be working from the ground up to train for this event too. I have no doubt that she’s going to ROCK IT though.

So we have Shelby, Andrea, Faiza, and Renee. All moms, all in amazing shape, all ready to beast out and take on NYC together! Andrea has abs of steal and should be some famous fitness figure right now because she’s sporting a super rocking body for a mom of 2 little ones thanks to her Crossfit workouts. She is the reason why I decided to blog as she recommended I do this to keep track of my progress better. (Thanks Andrea for the great idea!) Then there is Renee who is a Rogue Racer, Tough Mudder, Crossfitter, and Faiza, another Tough Mudder. Go Ruck seems to be the next step for all of us! What do you think we could possibly find to do next?

I feel like such a lucky gal to have a friend like Shelby, who together with her husband, decides she’s going to make her fitness freaky friends take on a challenge such as Go Ruck where we will be getting hazed throughout the streets of NYC on September 12^th in honor of Remembrance Day. This is a great opportunity to test my physical and mental ability (again) and I can’t wait to do it with the women I want to be just like when I grow up – the Tough Mothers!