My Rock - MCM Mama Runs

Red Envelope asked me to participate in their #RedGift campaign to show gratitude to the “rock” in our journeys. While I have a lot of supporters in my life (I’m so lucky to have an awesome family and wonderful friends), the main rock in my life is obviously Beer Geek.

We’ve been together a long time and been married almost 2o years. He’s supported me through grad school (where I lived 4 hours away for 1.5 years), building my career, our roller-coaster ride to parenthood, and my decision to drop out of the work force.

But, he’s been the most supportive when it comes to my fitness journey. Whenever I say, I think I want to… His answer is “you should.” And then he follows it up with whatever actions are necessary to make it happen.

He took 3 Fridays off work when I was training for my first marathon, so he could watch Shoo while I ran 20 miles.
He wrangled two young kids at the Marine Corps Marathon to meet me at mile 3 and at the finish, despite needing to leave for a business trip the minute I finished my race.

He steps up to the plate any time I need to leave town for a race or a fitness related event.
He’s ALWAYS up for a roadtrip to a race and acts as chauffeur the entire time.

He pushes me outside my comfort zone and makes me do things I might not otherwise try.

He’s always certain I can do whatever I’ve set out to do, even when I’m not.
He acts as my photographer, my water boy, my driver, and my kid wrangler.

He totally understands that running is not just a fitness thing for me. It’s necessary for my mental health and he makes sure that running happens when it needs to.

I’ve accomplished a lot of running goals over the last 6 years of running: 2 marathons, 35 half marathons, back to back races, two sets of 5 in 5 days, 13 half marathons in 79 days, etc. And I’m not done. I have lots of goals still out there.

And I never would have accomplished them all without Beer Geek by my side. I’m such a lucky girl!

Disclaimer: Red Envelope asked me to participate. I am not being compensated for this post and all opinions are my own.