2,959 Miles Walked!

By katie, on December 31st, 2011%

Thanks for walking with us all year long!

It’s here-the last Walking Challenge post. It has been an interesting year and a lot of fun walking with you all. As a group we walked an amazing 2,959 miles! Whoohoo! You guys all rock and I’m so happy we did this challenge together. What an accomplishment!

We ended the year with 326 miles. Those last 39 miles eluded us, but it surprisingly it doesn’t bother me at all. As I looked back through the photo’s of the walks we took I know the Walking Challenge did exactly what I set out for it it do-it got us out and walking. I’m thrilled with all the fun we had and hope you all feel the same way!

I want to give a special congrats to Dare and her gang-they achieved an amazing feat and finished out the year with 1002 miles! That is so amazing! Carrie, Tanner and Oliver also blew us away with 549 total miles since they joined us in April. Both teams not only met but exceeded their goals and their loyally keeping me up to date all year really kept me going. Congrats guys!

I started out thinking I’d post a few of my favorite photo’s from the whole year, but it ended up being so many that I decided to slideshow it instead. We walked so many beautiful places all over the state, with friends and family. I couldn’t be happier with how our Challenge turned out. Thanks for joining me and supporting me all year long!

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Wordless Wednesday: Happy Dirty Princessface

By katie, on December 28th, 2011%

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2011 Walking Challenge Winds Down

By katie, on December 24th, 2011%

There is officially only one week left in the 2011 Walking Challenge.

Wow! I find it hard to believe there is only one week left in 2011! The Walking Challenge is a complete success for me. It helped motivate me which was my purpose in starting it and I think it did the same for many others.

I’ve connected with so many new readers and walkers, met many new blogging 4legged friends and been inspired by everyones’ determination and success.

I’ve debated extensively wether to make a 2012 challenge and I’m sorry to say I decided I just don’t have the time to organize it and keep up with everyone as you deserve. Life changes so much in any year and my life has changed more this year than any other since the year I got married. With all the changes I just don’t feel as an organizer I can give another challenge what it and you deserve.

We’ll still be walking and training. I’m still going to set a goal for us, but it will likely be centered around much more training activity. At least for the first few months of the year. My plan is to set quarterly goals that will work with the classes the dogs and I are both taking and the goals I have now that I’m professionally training. More on that later, I’m sure.

We check in this week with 319 miles. Most of our winter miles aren’t getting done in pure walking, but in short walks with lots of training, but were still plugging along.

I hope you all have a good last week of walking this year. I appreciate the loyalty and determination you’ve shown to support me in the Walking Challenge this year. Most of all I hope you had fun!

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An Overhaul?

By katie, on December 22nd, 2011%

I am loving this blog: Ruffly Speaking. I mean I am go back and pour through all the archives until the middle of the night as if you were reading a best seller loving it. It’s simple, clean, written by a writer and filled with beautiful images. All things I wish my blog was.

So I thought in January I am going to overhaul my blog. I am going to get back to words and images and messages that inspire me. I am going to take the time to let words flow like waterfalls onto the page.

Then I remembered that in January Maizey starts Fiesty Fido class. In January Magnus finishes Beyond Basics class. Okay, so it might not happen till February.

Oh, but wait, in February Maizey still has two weeks of Fiesty Fido and I start CAP Class. Yes I said CAP, as in Kay Laurence, hardly anyone gets to take this, has always been my dream to take, Competency Assessment Program class. I am THRILLED and OVERJOYED! (In all caps since I am THAT THRILLED and THAT OVERJOYED to even have the chance to take it.)

Hmm. . . the flowing words like waterfalls may not happen when I am working 5 days a week, taking my dream class, praying Maizey can even handle Feisty Fido’s and . . . the best part of all?

Also in February I hope to have a day of wonderful dog fun and photo’s with a Seth Casteel photo shoot. Can you hear me squealing in delight? It’s not paid for yet, but it’s in the works and I can’t believe I have the chance to have him shoot my dogs.

Of course on top of all that I promised myself I would sit for CPDT in the fall and I have to apply to sit for it by July. Which means I have to have a reasonable amount of my recommended reading list read by then to even bother applying, let alone testing. And somehow that reading doesn’t get done when I read wonderful, simple beautiful blogs till the middle of the night.

The moral of the story?

If we disappear it’s not that I ignored your encouraging words of comfort and abandoned blogging all together, but that I decided to redo and ran out of time to compete the project. Never fear, we shall return. . .

Of course it may be in March after all our classes are over.

As a nod to aforementioned beautiful images I leave you with a contemplative Princessface.

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