Who am I?

I'm Kim and my friends call me Sauce.

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I started traveling at a time when I didn't have a lot of money and was afraid to venture out on my own. I stopped wanting, dreaming, and waiting for the right time- I booked a solo flight to Costa Rica at 26 years old and took my running shoes along. I didn't rent a car, I did absolutely no research on bus routes, and was too cheap even for a taxi. Naturally, my first major issue was transportation to a coffee plantation tour. Once I found out it was only two miles away, I decided to jog  to the coffee plantation. Not wanting to miss the tour, I arrived sooo early.  I stood around for about five minutes then asked if I could run the estate before the official tour... that run was the best part of my vacation. And that is when it started... when I travel, I pack my running shoes. 

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Fast forward six years and I'm trying to climb out of a slump that I'm not sure how I got in. I stopped running. For months,  I found myself sleeping in everyday, gaining weight and just feeling tired ALL the time. I thought I was in a lazy phase and I told myself whenever I start up again it will be easy to snap out of it. During this lazy phase, I traveled to Greece and even though I wasn't regularly running- my running shoes were packed and my running route was mapped. The morning of my first scheduled run I set off onto the cobble streets of Santorini. Half a mile later I suddenly stopped. I couldn't breathe and my legs just wouldn't go another step. It turned out that I lied to myself- casually starting to run again was not easy. There I was looking out towards the Aegean Sea feeling defeated. I was too tired to finish the run that I started and too embarrassed to admit I was out of shape. 

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I had to make a decision: walk back to the hotel and feel like a failure OR struggle through the run- I wanted to walk back but I chose to struggle. I arrived with shaky legs and gross with sweat but I was far from defeated. I ate breakfast with my husband and told him, "tomorrow I will run a little further". And the next day I ran a little further, I saw a little more of Santorini that I would have missed if I gave up the day before. So I hope this blog can help you out- I'm just an okay runner trying to run further and faster- I think that's what every runner is trying for.  

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