Ready to Run

Well in the two and a half years I've been sitting at a desk job I've finally managed to gain back the almost 20 pounds I'd lost in my manual labor job at the barn. I knew eventually all the sitting, plus cookie eating would catch up with me. It's also made my back start to hurt. I find it amazing that shoveling, lifting and carrying four about four or five hours a day for two years never once made my back hurt, but two years of imobility has. Any way I digress.

Oppourtunity and motivation has come. My church is sponsoring a 5K to raise money for our sister church in Kibali, Rwanda Africa. They are looking to raise money for a number of things, including livestock for families, school fees for the children and funds to continue building a desperatly needed health clinic for the community.

On Saturday I spent a lovely day with my mom. She took me shoping. (I love that I'm thirty and mom my still takes me shoping.) We bought a pair of running shoes so I can do this right and not hurt myself. Thanks mom.

Yesterday I took my first run in them. It was actually fun. I'm trying to follow a training schedule and so far so good. I have exactly the amount of time they say is nessesary to train before the race. Really they suggest six weeks, I have five at this point. I had already started walking and I would do a couple intervals of running with no problem, so I think I'm ok to start into the second week of training intervals.

If anyone is interested cause you,

a) love me

b) love Rwanda or

c) aren't running or walking yourself,

I'd love sponsors. Here is a link to the site for more information on the race and sponsorship. http://www.runforrwanda.org/