All about keeping up to pace....
So who am I? Well the answer to that question could take awhile to explain in detail, but how's about we start with some interesting key facts about myself!?!
My name is Chrissy Pace and if I were to describe a few key aspects of my personality I would tell you I am a runner (training for my first full marathon), a therapeutic recreation student, a lover of all things food/wine/tea, a daughter/sister/aunt, someone with a mystery food sensitivity, and a traveler.
My name is Chrissy Pace and if I were to describe a few key aspects of my personality I would tell you I am a runner (training for my first full marathon), a therapeutic recreation student, a lover of all things food/wine/tea, a daughter/sister/aunt, someone with a mystery food sensitivity, and a traveler.
I started running way back in junior high, when I joined my school's cross country team and thought my coach was ridiculous when he told us that the races would be 3 whole kilometers! Fast forward about 9 years and I started to running again as a stress release, which soon led to me signing up for my first 5km race at the Bluenose Marathon in 2012 (which I finished in 29:34). About two weeks after that race, I took off to Europe for a month and came back fully motivated to begin training for my first half marathon at Maritime Race Weekend. I finished that half marathon, looking like I was going to puke or worse, but I finished it in 2:08:55 (0:01:05 faster than I hoped for, yay!)!
In 2012, I finished a hand full of 5km races and two half marathons, I was feeling pretty great. It was during that time that I started to realize, however, that my eating habits were not the healthiest. When I looked in the mirror, I did not see the skinny individual that other people claimed to see when they looked at me. It was soon after my third half marathon, in May 2013, that I started to re-evaluate my eating and exercise habits. I quickly realized that I had spent so much time running and going to the gym to be skinny that being healthy got lost and at that point I decided that it was time to start loving and respecting my body and all that it allows me to do.
I am aiming to finish my therapeutic recreation degree within the next three years and am hoping to complete my internship in the field of mental health and eating disorders. Where I'd like to go after that, well, who knows? But have a pretty long bucket list of things I'd like to accomplish before I become a recreation therapist!
I am aiming to finish my therapeutic recreation degree within the next three years and am hoping to complete my internship in the field of mental health and eating disorders. Where I'd like to go after that, well, who knows? But have a pretty long bucket list of things I'd like to accomplish before I become a recreation therapist!
So sit back and try to keep up with my pace (don't worry I'm not too fast!) and I'll see you at the finish line!