Why Running

So back in January, I made myself a goal.  I said that I wanted to lose 52 pounds.  Thats 1 pound every week of the year and why not.

Having set that goal I decided I need to pick something to do that would keep me engaged.  I picked Zumba!  I love Zumba, I love dancing around and being silly, I love shaking my booty, moving my arms, and having fun with this great group of women that I was working out with.

This group of women is my Mom's group from the YMCA, its a bunch of us that got sick of sitting there watching our children swim on the swim team for hours at a time 4 nights a week.  Jen starting going to Zumba first, after hearing about how much fun it was I decided to give it a try.  Okay, seriously the first month was a trying expierence, I looked like a spaz (yes a complete spaz) and my body hurt in places that I didn't know I had!  But as I kepy going I started to have this Love/Love relationship with it and found that if I missed Zumba I was very sad.

Right around this time my best friend had decided that for some insane crazy reason she maybe wanted to run a half marathon.  Good Luck I told her.  Your crazy!!!  She asked me if I wanted to join her, I told her I'd be there to cheer her on.  

Well a couple days later I decided why not? I'm not a runner by any means, but its been on a bucket list.  How cool would that be, to be able to say I accomplished something I always wanted to do????  So I set out to run a half marathon.  The one that we were going to run, ended up not being the one for us.   Well after researching all the Half-Marathons that were out there in the Twin Cities (and believe me there are a ton of them) we decided on Lola's Half Marathon in Wacona, MN.