Hello, running shoes!

I've missed you.

For PE this semester we decided to go cheap and easy.  Everyone is going to run the Jingle Bell Run in Dec.  Big boys are doing the 10K.  Next 3 doing the 5K.  Littlest are going to enjoy the Egg Nog Jog fun run.  Awesome.

Bill is chaperoning the 10K.  Our neighbor might do the 5K because his kids want to run it too and they are training with us. The kids could probably run without an adult anyway. I was going to do the fun run.  But....

A friend informed me today that her two want to do the 5K.  Her 1st grader and her Kindergartener want to do the 5K.  Great.  But she can't run.  Her husband can't run.  I'm scratching my head over who is going to chaperone these little guys because they will probably end up training with us.  Moi???


I did my first run/walk yesterday and feel like cr*p.  In fact I thought I was getting sick until I remembered that this is how one feels when one starts running again.  And now I'm going to have to run.  Shoot.  Help?  Is there any way to say "I don't want to watch your kids for 3.1 miles?"

Just keep running

Every time I get pregnant I think, "THIS time I will keep working out through the pregnancy."  Alas, I am lying.  I never do.
I should start up again as I am only 10 lbs from my "no more weight than this" and am 26 weeks along.  Ummm...I am pretty sure that works out to more than 10 lbs using the 1 lb per week rule of thumb.
It is going to be so HARD to lose this weight this time, I can just feel it.  Sigh.
Anyone have any tricks for workouts / weight control during pregnancy?  You know, other than NOT eating a bowl of cereal or ice cream or having a cup of hot chocolate at 9 or 10pm? :)

Did you

get the email about the Army 10 miler?  Are you running?

start running already??

So now that I am feeling fat and sluggy and wishing the cold weather would let me choose different clothes I am thinking about all that PEACE and QUIET I enjoyed while running.  Anyone else up for running?? :)