Week 1: Official Training Begins

Last weekend, we started our official training for the marathon. Before that, Dave and I were both preparing for the Lewis and Clark as our main priority. Dave completed this week's long run with the TNT group at Forest Park. He finished 9 miles. As soon as he got home, I left to run 8 miles near our house. I was a little nervous about starting at that distance, but I did fine. I do need to remember to eat breakfast before running, instead of just drinking coffee. I ran out of energy near mile 3. Luckily I had gatorade and that gave me enough of a boost to finish. Our goal is try to get 15-18 miles in during the week and then add our long run on the weekend. It looks like we'll be increasing our long runs by one mile almost every week. Our longest runs should be Dec. 13 and 20.

The kids helped with our fundraising this week by sending letters to their teachers and pastors at school. Lucas wrote the letter and both kids signed it. Everyone has been very supportive and generous so far! We also worked on getting some updates out and letters to new people; so maybe some new supporters are checking out our training this week. Thanks to everyone who has helped! We still have a long way to go with our training, but our progress with fundraising has been very exciting. Hopefully we can meet and exceed our goal of $5000 by the fundraising deadline at the end of November.