Let Me Tell You More About Me…

 

 

I have been happily married to my husband Wayne for ten years.  We’ll be celebrating our eleventh year of wedded bliss on October 9 of this year.  Exciting!!!  During our ten years of marriage, we have been blessed with three boys.  Their names are Daniel (ten years old), Joshua (five years old), and Andrew (four years old).  Our lives are very busy with work and kids activities, that when we do have a moment, we just like spending it at home enjoying each other’s company.  Cause that’s what family is all about! :)

This past year, I’ve been focusing more on becoming a better “me”.   I’ve always been involved in fitness.  I enjoy working out, but over the years, the things that I was doing was not doing a thing to my body.  After three pregnancies (each pregnancy, I gained fifty plus pounds), I really wanted to slim my body down.  For years, I focused on step aerobics and weight training.  This type of exercise slimmed me down, but not the way I wanted.  Then during the Christmas of 2008, my husband bought a treadmill, hoping to whip himself into shape.  My husband last two months, bless his heart!  So, instead of letting the treadmill collect dust, I started using it.

Here’s a couple of pictures of our treadmill:

 

In February of 2009, I started running on the treadmill.  It was hard at first, but over time it got easier.  Then a couple of months later I discovered Cardio Coach.  www.cardiocoach.com  Cardio Coach is audio guided interval workouts set to music and the tantalizing voice of Sean O’Malley.  Cardio Coach really helped in my cardio endurance and soon I was able to run non stop for thirty minutes.  Then in May, my wonderful cousin who happens to be an avid runner tells me that I should run the half marathon at Queen City Marathon in September.  www.runqcm.com  I signed up and started my three month half marathon training.  I was anxious at first, but I was determined to do this!  When the marathon came around, I ran it at a time of 2:16!!!  My goal was to finish it in two hours and a half.  I totally outdone myself!

You can see my pictures and my finish line video here:

http://www.marathon-photos.com/scripts/event_entry.py?event=Sports/STCA/2009/Queen%20City%20Marathon&match=2489

Since then, I’ve ran in another marathon, the Regina Police Half and I’ll be running the Queen City Marathon in September again as a pace rabbit. 

I would have to say that if you run and you haven’t ran a marathon before, you should give it a try.  It truly is a wonderful experience.  I bet, if you do run one, you’ll be itching for more!