Greetings! In the interest of fitness and family togetherness, we are going to start a running program. This blog is here to give us a fun place to talk about the experience and help us stay accountable. (If we know you're reading, we'll have to explain ourselves if we don't post!)
Here's the plan: Starting tomorrow (February 18, 2008), we are going to embark on the Couch to 5k new runners' program. We'll jog/walk three times a week as outlined on that page. We want our kids to be a part of this adventure and also to see us doing this, so we'll either take them in the ladybug stroller (on cold days), or if we're jogging on the high school track we can let them run around on the field, or let Ridley ride her bike with us, or something.
This running program is three days a week. On the off days, we hope to do some weight training. I (Robyn) got pretty regularly into this while we were in Portland, and have let my muscles atrophy since living here, despite totally free 24-hour access to a nearby well-equipped weight room.
The program is 9 weeks, which happens to be exactly 2 months. Our first workout will be February 18, and the final 3-mile run will happen on April 18. There will be challenges, no doubt - call nights when I get no sleep, illness which puts one or the other of us (or a child) to bed, travel where we aren't together (next week we'll both be in Florida, but may or may not see one another at all!). Through it all we'll write on the blog and try to post pictures every so often. Thanks for reading.
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