A Man On The Run....

Welcome to my first Blog post EVER!
Today I started a program call couch to 5K with my friend Marlin, and decided I had so many thoughts about the start of this unusual chapter in my life, that I would find a way to share them.
I don't expect anyone to really read this (while thinking in the back of my mind that I will post this link to Facebook... so I'm sure I have some expectation that SOMEONE will read it...)so I'm just typing whatever comes to mind without really editing much of it after the fact... I am only going to correct spelling mistakes to remove the red line OF DEATH!


I always comment to my wife that I don't understand the runners who are constantly jogging up the streets in the town where we live.  First of all, runners are stupid, and people who run in the rain are idiots... wellllll, Today I not became stupid (by running) I became an idiot who runs in the rain, and I really enjoyed it!
I really am not an active person, getting off the couch to get Ice cream is all the exercise I needed... or so I thought... Here I am, 250 pounds, 5 foot 4 inches (according to the DMV), Type 2 Diabetic, and tired ALL the time. Something has got to change! I made the new years resolution in 2010 to run the VA Ten Miler, which runs right past the house I grew up in, but never seemed to get farther than wanting to do it... and honestly, that want wasn't very strong (remember, Runners are stupid) so it kind of just became a memory...
Until at a Garlic Festival with my friend Marlin and he mentioned he would like to run The Ten Miler next year (2012)   I was shocked, didn't picture Marlin as a runner, but thought "if he can do it, I can too!"

So we decided that, since neither of us were in "running shape", we would start with the Couch to 5 K program. My 8 year old son, Dylan, decided this would be a good time for him to be part of a "guys night out" and asked to come along. Now, D is NOT an active child when it comes to being outside. give him a book and some nice soft grass and he is in Heaven! unless of course a bug comes near, or God forbid a Grand daddy long legs. So when he said he wanted to go I explained that we would be running the whole time, and he could go, but would need to keep up. He said he would try, grabbed his iPod and was ready to go! Marlin picked us up, we drove over the hill to the bike/running trail near our house and we were off!
Dylan stayed true to form by having to go to the bathroom as soon as Marlin and I hit the "go" button on our apps... so Marlin and I did our warm up by pacing in front of the bathroom...
and when Dylan came out we continued down the path and to my amazement Dylan kept up with us the whole way! Actually he did better than me!

I was really struggling on the way back, everything I had hurt! But I managed to make it through and finished the first week! HOORAY!