A Living Invitation

As I sit down to write a blog post this morning, my mind is racing with thoughts of ZOOMA. This is an incredibly exciting time for us. Since January 1, ZOOMA has taken on a wonderful new staff member, re-launched zoomarun.com, staged a successful training kick-off for ZOOMA Austin, initiated planning for the inaugural ZOOMA Denver, and entered discussions about a future ZOOMA San Francisco. Indeed these are exciting times. Every day at work is fast-paced, with big decisions to be made and exciting news to share with friends and husbands at the end of the day.

As the founder of ZOOMA who has been working full-time on building these women’s events for almost two years, I feel lucky to have this job and grateful to all of you who have confirmed that ZOOMA is important to you, too. Every day I am motivated by my mission to create fun events for women that inspire and challenge, and that give the opportunity to have a healthy, fun, and proud day with your friends. We receive emails daily from women affirming that ZOOMA has meant that for them, and I am urged on by the idea that there are still women out there who are desperately seeking a little “ZOOMA” in their lives.

My friend Kristin Armstrong, who is a wonderful person and, lucky for us, willing to share her uncommon gift with words, said it well. At the ZOOMA Austin Training Kick-off, she spoke to us all about the importance of running in training us to endure, live our best, and be strong for ourselves and our family and friends when they need us most. This is something I believe ZOOMA has to offer women – the power to be who you most want to be. Kristin went on (and this is my favorite part)…

“I’m telling you this but guess what? – you’re already here, you already get it. What about the women who aren’t here? The ones who haven’t already opened the gift of running, who don’t already know the fun of fit friendships, who don’t even know enough to know that they need a release, a reset, or a refill? What about them? Let’s find them, seek them out, and invite them. I encourage each of us to think of five people who might need to replenish their source, who might just try something new because we tell them we believe they can. This is what’s called being a ‘living invitation’ – calling others to be more than they perceive themselves to be.”

Ahhh.

What a wonderful concept – to be a LIVING INVITATION. We’ll keep working hard to make ZOOMA events more fun and more exciting, and I’d like to challenge all of you to use ZOOMA as an opportunity to invite beginning runner/walker friends to experience the joys of running, to be better than they thought they could be, and to deepen your own fit friendships.