No more school , no more books, no more teachers dirty looks!

I think that's how it goes but I am not sure, you know I am old.
So I Knocked it out of the park....."A" in Microbiology and an "A" in Human Anatomy and Physiology I. I am going to take the summer off and mess around with my kids. My twins are going to Kindergarten next year and my older girl will be in second grade. So we are going to have a fun summer.

I have been reading this guy Ben. He is so cool and here is one of his posts.


May 4, 2011

How to start? Run to the stop sign.

I’ve talked about it a few times before, but it’s still the number-one question I get asked.

“How do you start running?”

There are many forms of this question. It also comes in as “I’m 100 pounds overweight, how do I start running?” and “I’ve tried running, but it’s so hard and I get so tired that I get discouraged. How do I start and stick with it?”

And the answer is always pretty much the same: You do what you can and the next day you do a little more.

When Jed and I started, we weren’t runners. We were joggers, and just barely. We couldn’t go very far, but we made sure to keep going.

The important thing to understand is that, just like anything else, running is going to be hard. How many people do you know that can walk onto a golf course for the first time in their life and shoot par? None.

No. We have to get through the sucky part. And it’s hard. But it is doable. And the cool thing is that once you do, it gets a lot easier and it goes faster than you’d expect.

The first thing to do is just get out there. Yeah, it might be scary—particularly if you’re overweight—but you have to do it. And when you do, just start. That may mean just walking. But do something. Go until you can’t go any more And mark the distance. Remember how far you went.

And the next time you go out (maybe not the next day), try to go farther. And eventually try to run some. While you’re going, look ahead and find an object and run to it. A mailbox, a lightpole, or a stop sign. I always preferred stop signs. Not sure why.

Build it up. Slowly.

The next time you go, run to the stop sign, but start a little earlier. And the next time run a little more. Run slowly, and run smartly, but run.

And then, before you know it, you’ll have run a mile without stopping.

It’s a big moment. It might take a month. It might take two, but you’ll always remember your first mile.

And then it gets faster. Once you do one mile, two is just around the corner. And three. And a 5K! And you’ll do a 5K and then you’ll do another. And then you’ll do a 10K.

But you have to start.

Go out there and walk. And then jog.

Army Wives will still be on the DVR when you get back. Promise.

update: I’ve had a few messages asking about beginner training plans for a 5K. There’s no better one than Couch-to-5K. Check it out if you haven’t already.

I am so ready to start this. I went to the doctor today and got all kinds of blood work done so I will be posting all the bad and good. I am ready to make a change.