PMT Week One

Week one of pre-marathon training--check!

We just finished our four mile run and I know it sounds silly because it's only four miles, but I'm really excited that I was able to run it all because it's been a while since I've run more than a mile or two, not counting this week. Landon ran it a little faster than me, at about a nine minute mile pace and I ran it about a 930 pace, finishing a couple of minutes after him. But still, it felt so good to have done it--I think that the feeling that you get when you finish a hard run is one of the best in the world. It's addicting.

We've got a couple of races that we've got to run for this Hal Higdon's training program that we're doing, and just found out today in our Bible class that there's a 5K that our church is doing to raise money for a really cool organization called Second Mile Mission on the very same weekend that we're supposed to run a 5k for the program. I love it--we get to get our running in with a bunch of our friends and raise money for a very worthy organization.

And, we're signing up for a 10K in April at the Fort Worth zoo and trying to convince some of Landon's family to run/walk it or the 5k with us. We'll see--I think it could be a lot of fun though and it's a lot of fun getting in shape with both our families. Everyone's working out and getting in shape and I LOVE IT. And, somehow running 3 or 6 miles seems a lot more appealing when there's fun things like hanging out with friends and family and all of the animals at the zoo while we're doing it!

And, our last running update--we've decided to join the World Vision team for the Chicago marathon. Even more fun and motivating than running and hanging out with friends and family is knowing that by running this race together, we can be raising money to help little kids like our sweet boy Joel that we sponsor from the Congo and families like his and villages like the one he lives in. We're registering to join the team this week probably and will begin raising funds for this awesome organization at some point. I'm SO excited. And, you get to wear cool, orange team shirts like these--
Anyway, I'm feeling excited about running tonight, so I just thought I'd share a little. And now, I've got to go and get everything together for work tomorrow!