I need a Hero....

It was sitting there in my inbox this morning...
An email I noticed last night but didn't bother opening...
Recently some "event's" had brought me a little down....
blurred my focus...
deflated my momentum...
I had hit what I like to call the "skid's"....
 I had no desire to run...
To work out...
To call clients...
To encourage and motivate myself...
I was allowing the negative energy of the past week to affect my vision and weaken my resolve....

And I was blissfully un-aware of my situation....
I thought I was just "tired"....
Maybe my last 1/2 marathon took my energy and I just had not re-charged since...
Yea.. that was it...
Lack of re-charge... must add beer!

It was a simple email..
a notice from my Hero... (one of the many)...
An upcoming seminar that I knew I must attend...
at 5:30 am the wheels started turning....
I HAVE to get there...
Not just for the seminar... but because in Denver are my Hero's...
Jimmy D, Larry Kendall, Rich Sands, Garrrett Frey....
Men I admire....
Not just because they are successful and kind...
But because they Run....
They Cycle...
They breath the amazing mountain air...
And they understand that little drive inside that says...
come.. embrace this world around you...

This prompted two things....
A string of emails to a couple of the above mentioned "Hero's"...
Building a Huge excitement for the adventure ahead....

And a moment, to myself where I really considered...
who are my Hero's....

I am surrounded daily by people who motivate me, challenge me, inspire me....
My parent's, My Realtor's.... My friends....
There are so many to list...
But it was in that moment that I realized...
That you don't have to look far for someone to inspire you....

Sometimes, you just have to look across the hall....
I'm a lucky girl...
I have found people all over the world through my running to inspire, light the fire, and challenge me.... but the greatest discovery of all... is held in a little house, on Stony Plain Road... in Edmonton Alberta....

And now,
Each morning I can wake up...
And remind myself....
Today...
I get to be surrounded by a house full of my Hero's...