Time to do a quick check up.
How are you doing? How are you REALLY doing? I hope you will take a moment and either email me (teresa.kutcher@osumc.edu) or comment on this post and let me know how you are doing. I want to help in any way possible!
I know you may already be tired of these updates as we often look at the Pelotonia event as just another thing to do on our plate.
But what if we were to look at it as an integral part of our job and our person? I mean, we eat so that we can work, play, and live. What if we treated our peloton activities the same way? It is necessary to work and live and reach our goals. Would we talk about it like we do our food or our exercise? Would we plan it like we do our dinner? Or set aside time for it like we do exercise? I hope that this is what we all work toward.
For me (Teresa), Pelotonia has become one of the motivators to exercise and eat right – I am a cancer survivor and I am so thankful for the work you do, for the support of our many donors, and I want to be a part of that for others. I am trying to be as intentional in talking about Pelotonia (and the Oh! IO PeDa1ers) as I am in talking about and planning my healthy eating and exercising. If I don’t, it falls by the wayside.
Training for Pelotonia 2021 is not just about riding your bike, or working toward your challenges. It’s about training yourself to make this an integral part of who you are and what you do. This can happen in many ways. For me, it has become part of my daily prayer life as well as part of my exercise routine (I plan to either walk 15 miles or bike 25 miles per week this year (after my doctor clears me from surgery). I talk about this often with family and friends (phone, social media, texts) so that I have accountability to continue to overcome a diagnosis I never wanted to have – cancer. That I never want anyone else to have.
Will you share your WHY with us by commenting on this post?