Registered!

I am officially registered for the half-marathon! So is my cousin, and my friend, Jenny! I have also invited my cousin Jenny. My husband said if I get 3 friends to complete this with me, he will give us $500 to go out and celebrate afterwards! I figure that's good for a massage for all of us, and dinner and drinks after! So excited!!

Running Away!

So I am super excited! I have a new goal! I have been working really hard to try to get in even better shape than before I had the baby, but I have had a set back recently, with one of my inner c-section incisions becoming infected...it's not terrible just pretty painful, and I can't really work through it. I am on the antibiotics now, and hopefully in a day or two will be back up and running...literally!

My cousin has agreed to run a half marathon with me NEXT May in Oregon.

I figure that gives us both about 13 months to train. I will definitely need it, I can barely run 3 blocks right now. I have never been a runner. My cousin in doing AWESOME though, totally an inspiration! She has been working on the Couch to 5k plan and kicking it's butt! It has motivated me to start on the same plan here in the next couple of days. I am going to try it outside first, instead of at the gym, because I think that will be easier for me to do everyday. I can just take my jogging stroller with the baby and go.

So to help, I downloaded some couch to 5k podcasts so that I will know when to run and when to walk. Hopefully that will make it easier, and I will have some music to help keep me going too. I am really excited, but also a little nervous. I have just never been much of a runner. A lot of the time I feel like my body could keep going, but my lungs can't. I am hoping with starting slow that will go away.

Well, I am off to do some cleaning. We have some friends coming over to shower and whatnot...their home was destroyed on Monday in the tornado.