Training Day 1

Yesterday marked a big milestone for me! Day one of my training for my first half marathon! I say first because God willing I will enjoy it and want to do more and more! The plan we looked up says to do 3 miles for your first run. Hello!? I don't run, like at all, so how do they expect me to up and run 3 miles my first go at it? Like I mentioned before I would be tweaking the plan a bit. I don't plan on tweaking the distance unless it is further and except for day one. My plan was to run jog 2 miles. When I say run, I say it loosely, I mean jog when I say run, so I may say them interchangeably. So off I went to the park my two little boys in tow to jog my 2 miles. I have a 3 year old son, Caden, and a four and a half month old son , Graysen! They are my joy in life! God has truly blessed me beyond measure with them and I am truly thankful! I pushed Graysen in his stroller and brought along Caden's bike to ride along the concrete half mile trail. I told Caden, who is wise beyond his years, that we would do 4 times around and then head home for mommy to shower and then off to the jumping place when daddy got home. Graysen did amazingly the entire 2 miles, not a cry once from him! Mommy was proud! Caden on the other hand was a little bit of a different story. Don't get me wrong he soared on his bike around the trail and laughed and giggled and had a blast!...the first time around. Then he was done! lol I love that kid, I kept jogging along telling him come on Caden we have 3 more times, and so he pumped his pistons like Thomas the train and off we went. He wanted to stop on more than one occasion to pick mommy a flower, yes in Central Texas we still have flowers in December! At one point he got ahead of me and turned sharp to look back at me and tumbled to the ground. My little guy jumped back up as I was running faster to see that he was ok and he said "I'm ok mommy!" He is such a trooper so off we went again. I kept coaxing him to keep going and when I would get a little bit ahead of him he would holler "mommy wait!" He would catch up to me and tell me "I'm gunna grab your shirt mommy and you can pull me." Yes, he was serious as he tried more than once to do this.I finally put my left hand out and while pushing Graysen's stroller with my right hand I held Caden's hand and pulled him parts of the way. For a break, I would tell him "race me to the finish line" and he would simply say "I'm done racin." Luckily for me at the forth time around a man came on his bike and I thought this will be great, Caden will want to ride like him. I wasn't so lucky. Bless Caden's heart he was tired, but he reluctantly trudged through to the end! This was a picture of my view on our first jogging adventure during training day 1!

My first days stats weren't all that great, but I was proud of them, after all I jogged the entire way pushing a stroller and even pulling Caden on his bike at times. I use an app on my iPhone that records my distance and time and plays my music. I love it! I finished 2.04 miles in 34:57! Some may laugh and I'm ok with that, I know it is slow, but for me this is a challenge that I am taking head on. I'm all in! Afterall, Anything is possible if a person believes. Mark 9:23