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I'm a certified personal trainer, certified sports nutritionist and a model. I've been modeling for a year and I love it! It's a really fun job. I've been a personal trainer for 4 years, and I got my sports nutritionist certification shortly after that. I started doing online personal training right away, which I still do. I opened my gym two and a half years ago, where I train people in person. I train all types of people with all different goals. I have focused a lot on training figure competitors, and I'm now starting to focus on endurance athletes as well. In my gym I have a lot of older folks because I live in an older community.

Personally, I started running seriously when I was 7 years old. I knew from my time I ran my first race that I was meant to run. I was in track until I was 15, and also ran a lot of 5k road races. I did fairly well, and brought home lots of awards. In my teen years I felt a little burned out and wanted to spend time doing teenager things, so I took some time off. Too much time. In my early 20's I found myself way out of shape. That's when I started working out again. I did some running, but nothing serious at first, then I started weight training. A couple years later I started training for my first figure competition. I used running as my cardio during cutting phases. After five figure competitions I knew I had accomplished what I had set out to do, but that my heart wasn't in it. My heart led me back to running. I started out with a few 5ks and then trained for my first half marathon. I love distance! I was hooked. I've done several half marathons since, improving my time a little with each one.

I've had a few setbacks since I got back to serious running, including sciatica and Lyme's disease. Currently I'm training for another half, hoping to make it my fastest ever. In the spring I'll be running my first marathon, then in the summer my first ultra marathon (that's 31 miles). I'll end the summer with my first short distance triathlon. I can't wait!

I live in a very rural area with my husband and our five cats. We grow a lot of our own food, and enjoy being outside hiking, camping and fishing.