I have decided to do a 5k... holy crap what's wrong w/ me!?!?!?!?.... and rather than bore everyone w/ the details on face book or my regular blog, I'm doing it here.
A week ago my friend Brandy asked me to start the Couch to 5K program w/ her. I've wanted to do this, and on more than one occasion have informed Eric I was going to, so figured now that I have a friend to help motivate me, I'll really do it. So I agreed and yet here we are, over a week later, and still not started. When we had first talked about it Brandy informed me she had been looking but couldn't find a 5k anytime soon, so I told her I'd help look. On Wed. I was so excited to walk into the dance studio both our girls go to and find a flier for a 5k coming up in June!!! I told her about it and that I wanted to pay to run (different prices to run vs walk)..and was informed she wants to walk :::sigh::: I refuse to walk if I'm going to 'train' to run a 5k. So I bugged friends Anne & Karen..Anne wants to walk too if she's doing it, but Karen agreed to run..YAY!! So that night we started going to the gym and have done the gym or ran @ the track every night since. The first 2 nights I was tired, but not at all sore afterwards. It felt great to be out doing something, and not sitting on my butt at home.
Last night, however, was not so easy. I figured since Eric leaves Sun for 2 months in Pensacola, Fl @ school I'd have him go w/ me before he goes. WOW!! That was a mistake lol. We put the girls in the jogging stroller and Curtiss ran along w/ us (that kid ran over a 1.5 miles!!!) and we followed the CT5K program (there's an AP on my cell that dings at me to run/walk/etc so it worked out great). I jogged @ Eric's pace the whole time. We joked that he's worse than a drill instructor lol. For a good part of the time I had him on one side of me encouraging me to keep up and not quit, and the other side of me was a buddy of his from work who just happened to be at the track at that time, also encouraging me. They were great, tho a bit annoying ;) I am stoked I could keep up w/ Eric, and hope to keep up that pace to reach my goal of running this thing by mid-June.

I am hoping to not only run this 5k, but also work towards a much healthier, happier me in the process. The kids were so excited to be out last night at the track running and just being outside, and I definitely want them to learn to be more active than they are, so I hope that in the end...we'll all be healthier and happier :)