Goals:

Rachel asked me this weekend if she could run a half marathon at the Sunburst race (http://www.sunburstraces.org/). So to set a goal myself I decided that I will train with her and run the race with her. So as of today that gives me just under 18 weeks to prepare my fat butt to run 13.2 miles without being totally blown away by my 12 year old daughter. My trainging program is a couch potatoe to 5k that can be found at http://www.coolrunning.com/ and then we will start the 12 week half marathon program their also. The only catch is that in six weeks I need to be up and running 20 miles/week to begin the half marathon program. So that is not much time to get me up to that level.

By doing this I want to

1. Spend some quality time with Rachel
2. Build up my endurance level and general fitness
3. Encourage my Cathy (wife) and Samantha (youngest daughter) to run the 5k at Sunburst also.

As a long term goal if I do well with this training I may try to do a full marathon in the fall. Quite possibly the Indianapolis marathon on Saturday October 18th (http://www.indianapolismarathon.com/ ).