5 Miles...Check!

Hello fellow bloggers and readers. It has been awhile, but I'm back and I'm still running. Only 9 weeks until the big race, but I'll get you caught up on that in a minute.

It would be way to cumbersome to catch you up on the two months that I haven't blogged, but let me just say that they were INSANE! I have been fighting with mother nature, I'll just hint at some of my adventures....14 ft alligator, Delphie's snake bite, frogs, spiders, roaches, Hurricane Earl, poison ivy & and an entire colony of Red Fire ants that attacked my feet. All in the midst of a very, very busy & exciting summer.

But now, we are home, and in the routine. School, preschool, work, and all the kids' activities, soccer, dance, Taekwando, and now we are trying to fit our regular running into the normal balance of life as well.

I have been keeping up with the running, by mid-August I had built myself up to a regular 3 miles (which was necessary to even begin an official Half-Marathon training program). So three weeks ago, we started the 12-week Hal Higdon training program for Novice runners. And yes, yesterday, Saturday, 9/11/2010, I RAN 5 MILES. And here's the crazy part....I felt good. My legs hurt, painfully actually, but my breathing felt good, and I really felt like if I had to I could keep going. I did it!

And yes, I'm all in, folks. I bought myself a water bottle belt (see picture), and I load with half water, half gatorade (gotta get those electrolytes), I've got my armband with my Droid phone that also plays music, as it uses the Endomondo app to GPS track my route, distance and mile pace. I've got my visor and my sweat-wicking shorts. I've pre-mapped all my runs. I am officially a ......... runner.

And that is beyond my comprehension. Life Lesson - never say never!