Walking, Running, and all things associated!
My sisters, (Marian and Inge) and my brother Kenny started
running in 2004 in order to get ready for the 10 kilometre Stony Plain
Run
for Life in September. None of us had ever run before but decided
if one of us was doing it, then all of us were doing it! My son Travis
and his girlfriend Claire joined us as well and Haley (Marian's daughter)
was cheering from the sidelines! Niki (Inge's daughter) joined us
later on.
We had great fun and it was a marvelous experience.
Marian, Inge, and Kenny have all continued running however my knees told
me I shouldn't be doing this so in January of 2005 I decided to join a
Fitness Walking group with the Running
Room. Here I was, thinking.. gee.. would be nice to join a walking
group. Take it slow, let my knees see if they can handle the walking.
It didn't say on the website how far we would do in distance, so I just
assumed (you know what happens there!) that we would start off with a couple
of kilometres and work our way up from there. Well... little did
I know, I had joined a half marathon walking group! Our first outing
was 6 kilometres through the snow in -20 degrees celcius weather!
And I PAID them to let me do this!!! Good grief!! Well, here
I am, six months later, and I have completed my first official half marathon
race and have two more half marathons and a ten kilometre (so far) that
I am signed up for this year! Plus, our group is now talking about
going for a FULL marathon!! All because I thought it would be nice
to go for a walk with a group once in a while! HAH.. serves me right!
Here is our group at the Footstock half marathon race in Cochrane!
This would be before (don't we all glow in the headlights
nicely!)
Yours truly, during the race!
Showing off the medals!
And, here we all are after the race, looking as fresh
as we did before the race
(I am saying nothing about smelling as fresh though!)
Return to Family & Friends