I’ve written a little about my husband, Jason, and how he’s very dedicated to his running. In fact, I am jealous. I’m not really jealous of the time he spends running (although catch me on a crabby day and that might be true, too), but I’m more jealous of the fact that he really sticks to things. He says he’s going to achieve a goal, and he does. There’s really no question about if. We just wait to see when it will happen. In May of this year, he ran the 5K at the Fargo Marathon. He decided next year that he’d like to run the half marathon. Yikes! So, in a step along the way, he is registered to run the 10K at our University’s homecoming celebration this weekend. Yay, Jason!

This leads me to a little bit of an admission. I have actually been running also for a while. We have a treadmill, and I started doing the Couch to 5K plan in June. I didn’t tell anyone though. I didn’t want to have any pressure put on me if I didn’t like it or if I decided to stop. Then, I realized something. I realized that if I really wanted to keep up with running I needed a goal. I also needed to tell people so they could put pressure on me and keep me accountable! So, I’m going to do it. I’m making a goal (gulp) and telling people about it. My goal is to run the half marathon in Fargo in May of 2009 with Jason. (My heart is beating faster as I’m typing this…not a good sign for my physical fitness.) I’m currently running 2.5 miles at a time with a goal of running 3 times a week.

Since I have a Nike+iPod Sport Kit, I can track my progress pretty closely. AND, since you now know that this is my goal, I guess I’m going to be telling you about how my running is going every week.