T-minus 14.5 weeks...

The Colorado Colfax Marathon. http://www.coloradocolfaxmarathon.org/portal/ May 17th, 2009. This is now on my mind EVERY single day! My friend Margo at church called last week to see if I wanted to run a 1/2 Marathon with her in May. My initial thought, and inside laugh, was how I ran, well jogged, a 5k last summer non-stop and said I didn't ever need to do that again! My second thought was how two of our friends, Matt & Jarod, had just run a 1/2 a few days before. So, I waited 'till John got home to get his opinion. Thinking that surly he'd point out why it was a dumb idea and I'd move on. Nope, he thought it'd be great fun to do it together! So, Thurs. night, Jan. 29th - and the day before my 32nd b-day, John and I made idiot history and signed up to run a 1/2 marathon together! Man, do I feel foolish! So, we immediately set to work to find our training schedule. John downloaded Hal Higdon's, http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/novice.htm We printed it out and perused the schedule. I had to laugh, this time out loud! It is expecting that I can start out running 3-4 miles a DAY, 3-4 times a week! Ha! I love jogging, once I'm out there, but haven't done it since San Diego last October! It just gets too cold here and I really despise our treadmill! So, I went online and looked for 5k training, figuring that'd be a good way to break myself in for 3 weeks and then switching to the 1/2 marathon training for the last 12 weeks. So, I downloaded the couch potato to 5k training, http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml I just started at week 4 since I don't consider myself a couch potato at this point! So, after a b-day morning sleep-in we woke up and went for a run! My motivation was The Egg & I for breakfast, yum! My favorite! It actually felt good! My first day was just 25.5 minutes walking and jogging. Once I'm out there, especially once I'm finished, I love to get out there and run! My second run was yesterday morning, 29.5 minutes walking and jogging. Chilly but fun. I hope to acquire some running "gear" to make it less uncomfortable but I'll manage for now.

You can expect a weekly update until the "big day"!