Weekend Update!!

Friday I went home and was able to complete the four miles before darkness hit. I was a little worried about doing four miles in the evening and then getting up at 5:00am to head to our Team Training in Longview. The girls came with me and I brought the jogging stroller to push them during our training for the first time. Our first mile was all on an uphill slant and we took 20 minutes to get through the first of our six mile training session. Not a very good start. :-( It gets better though. Our trainer, Rollie, was nice enough to offer to push the girls after the first three miles. I finished up, believe it or not, with an average of a 15 minute mile!! This is well below the 17 minute 20 second mile you have to keep in order to complete the Rock N' Roll Marathon and not get swept out. I am very excited. The trainer was very pleased as well and tells me I am right on track with my training and my fund raising to complete the race.

Today is a 4 mile day and I will probably be doing it in the rain for the first time. It ought to be interesting. And let me just get on a soap box for a minute. The weatherman are terrible. It is pooring down rain so hard that on my way to work my traction came on in the vehicle many times. Yet they are still saying 80% chance of rain. Now I realize that might mean 80% of our area but it seems so silly. Why don't they just say it's raining.

Anyway, I guess that's enough. LOL I will write again tomorrow and let you know how my walk goes this evening.

Charlene