5K-EVE and an October announcement.

It has finally come, I have actually done it!!! Tomorrow is race day and I am ready !!! I can't even believe it! This is how my runs have been going.....I am comfortably running my 3 miles again. My first half mile is great then for the next mile after that until the 1.5 mile mark I feel HORRIBLE (more mental then anything) and want to stop, at about 1.5-2 miles I feel a little better and my last mile is a cinch!!! SO I am ready. I suffered a killer arch injury the other day. But it is healing better...I am sure I can run through it. I am get insoles tonight...and going to run about 1/4 mile to test them out. I don't obviously want to run tonight or I wont make it tomorrow!!!

I am so excited. I don't think anybody has any idea how much this means to me! I didn't really ever think I would actually be able to convince my mind and body to do this. I run 3 miles now, but running in an actual race is so amazing to me. Last year I was attending a ward breakfast to celebrate the fourth of July. Many of acquaintance's and friends weren't there due to 4th of July races and biking...etc. I thought they were crazy. I understand now that no pancake breakfast or Balloon Lift (which I am missing this year) can get in the way of someones determination. I am so proud of myself. I am thrilled that I stuck with it day after day, week after week and month after month.

Well I am off to pick up my running packet, get my bib number and rest myself for the day. I am so happy.

I was leaving the gym...I started running on the treadmill due to a recent Provo predator on campus. Anyway as I was walking the boys from the gym to the car, London picked up a flyer. I didn't even read it until yesterday. It reads: Provo Half Marathon, October 31, 2009.

I was going to run in the spring in the Moab Half Marathon, but I changed my mind. I am running here in Provo on Halloween.

Course of Action:

I am going off sugar form July 5th until after Race Day. Exception July 25th which is both Londons b-day party and Jeffrey's actual b-day.

August 1st: I will be completely off soda. I love diet caffeine free soft drinks, I don't drink them often but I think it will help get me off sugar easier if I replace the sugar with diet soda for a couple a weeks....it's worked in the past temporally.

August 1st: I plan to be running regular 5mile runs.

September 1st: Running regular 8 mile runs.

October 1st: Running regular 8 mile runs, with long run days of 10-11ish miles

October 31st: Run 13 mile 1/2 Marathon!!!


Well, lots of luck to me tomorrow and for the next few months with my

HALF MARATHON TRAINING!!!