Well – We had our latest 5K this weekend.  It feels good to continue to challenge myself.  If you told me a year ago that I’d be doing a 5K a month now, I would’ve laughed at you.  In fact, I have laughed at a couple of people who have told me along the way I could do it.  When I began my weight loss process, my sister told me that one day I’d be running 5K’s.  I laughed at her.  I told her “I have never ran in the past and just because I lose weight, I’m not going to want to run in the future!”  Well – Never say never.  I’m not there yet, but I can see it as more of a possibility now.

The first 5K we did was the Glow Run back in June.  One of my best friends, Dawn, has been doing 5K’s for a while now and was looking for people to join her team to get a discount.  I had managed to ignore her posts for a while, but then one of them got to me and I mentioned it to my husband.  I was half way hoping he’d shoot me down.  “Hey, Dawn was looking for some people to join her team for the Glow Run 5K.  Do you want to do it?”  He said “Sure”  THAT was NOT what I was expecting, but I said “OK!” and we joined.  We ended up having  a good time and it felt good to do our first 5K in under an hour.  When we left, we had a flier for another 5K on our car that sounded intriguing to us, because it was held in industrial caves.  Ever since that first one, we have averaged one 5K a month.

I think with each one I have had a better time.  It feels good to be able to better myself and be able to even run some.  The next challenge is going to be Thanksgiving morning.  I have agreed to do a 10K with my sister.  Tommie and I are both doing it.  I REALLY want to do it in under 2 hours.  I’m afraid to run any though, because I’ve never done a race that is this long before, so I’m unsure how tired I will be at the end.  I’m also unsure if I’ll be staying with Tommie or trying to find my own pace yet.

It’s starting to get cold outside now.  It’s going to make me very sad when it gets too cold to walk outside.  I do not like going to the gym to work out, though we have been for our strength training.  I really loving walking outside and having a variety of places to walk.  I’m really curious to see how the winter goes with workouts.  I’m also still trying to find some good XBox Kinect workout programs that I like.  Hopefully that will help.

Well, that’s my update for now.  Thanks for stopping by!