I'm a Runner (I think)

This is pretty much how I feel about running!! I am learning to love my runs. I feel so fabulous afterwards, during not so much! I think my head is in a better place when I am running consistently. It is now the end of May. Honey and I started on our current excerise plan January 1 of this year. We started out walking one hour every day. I could barely make it. By the end of our walk, my hips hurt so bad I could barely lift my leg to step up to the curb. And I am only 46 years old!!! Let me say that again, I could barely left my leg six inches to get onto the curb after a 3 mile slow walk through the neighborhood!! And I hurt for days!!! Then we downloaded the C25K app onto our ipods. The first day is run one minute, walk 90 seconds, repeat for a total of twenty minutes. I literally did thiswhen I finished!!!  I watched the clock for the whole sixty seconds! It was the longest sixty seconds EVER!!! I couldn't bring myself to look at what was coming up because I thought I would talk myself out of running. Week nine was running thirty minutes, no walking. Are you kidding me!? I had trouble with sixty SECONDS and somehow in nine weeks I am going to be running thirth minutes? No way! Well, I did it!! I completed the nine week program (even had a bout of pnuemonia in the middle of the training). My sister began running around the same time and has completed several runs up in Seattle and is training for her 1/2 marathon! I have now started a program called B210K. Its first day is run ten minutes, walk one minute, repeat three times!! I still haven't run all four ten minute runs. I'm close though. And I am now running the route we started off slowly walking. I still am having trouble wrappping my head around that fact! Ok, not the whole route yet but I'm close!!! Off by about a half mile. Honey and I are running the Disney 5k in September (100 days from today!!) Anyone want to run with us? Head over and sign up!!!!! And I am trying to convince her to sign up for a 1/2 marathon in November in Santa Barbara!! It's funny because last month when Honey and I went to Top to Top in Santa Monica to get my new running shoes, the VERY nice and helpful saleman said he thought we'd training for a marathon within the year. We just laughed and said, "UH nope! 5k's are about as far as we go!!" With a laugh, I might add! But while I still think marathon are NOT on my list, 1/2 marathons sounds doable!!! 

I am a runner!!! Who knows what is now possible!!

 My training partner, Max and I after one of our runs!!

Carin from Forever in Blue Jeans has Shoot Me!!!

 She explains it  Shoot Me! It's time to stop hiding behind that camera of yours. Your family is missing you in the picture. So it's time to post a picture of YOU (yes, you) every Thursday with your child, your spouse, your friend, your dog, or even by yourself. Just get in the picture, you'll be glad you did! And just jump in now with 1 of 52, you can do it!

I look back at my life and think, "why aren't I in any of those pictures?" Then I remember, because I thought I looked awful, fat, no make-up, etc., etc., etc. But the funny thing is, I wasn't. I would kill to look like I did in my 20's!!! And my kids and Honey think I look pretty good now. So, I'm in!! Go on, head over there and link up!!!!