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On Monday, Victoria convinced one of the hockey wives to come out and do Day 1 Week 1 of the Couch to 5k program. I was really happy for her that she is now motivating others.
The next day, both of us sore from doing the D1W1 and then turning around and doing our D1W7 run, but we had promised we would take a co-worker out for a run.
The weather sucked ass and I tried my best to convince them that we would be struck down by lightning if we decided to proceed with this run. It didn’t work. They both showed up ready to run.
I was really proud of Aaron who did W4D1 without any problems.
It had been super windy with pouring rain all morning, but as soon as we got going I found a penny on the ground. I made my wish that it would stop raining and low and behold it did!
I’m not a fan of running in the rain, but the sputtering wasn’t so bad. I found a great stride and was happy with it. Aaron kept up and Victoria, even though she was behind me was happy with her stride as well. It was a successful day.
She let me know that something is wrong with her hip and an in an attempt to step over a shoe, she fell over. Looks like both of us are hurting.
I emailed Gordon and he sent me an email back with nothing more than, “How’s what’s his name doing?”
I let him know that What’s His Name is doing great, but has taken to mountain biking, but still goes out with me on occasions. I think he had high hopes of running the WS100 next year with him. Yes, he has potential. I remember. Suck it, sweetie, he’s MINE. If he’s going to run WS100 with me, he better get to moving as Road To Cool and AR50 come first!
I told him about my hip and knee issues and he gave me some advice. He’s a funny man and I really like him.

This weekend is the California International Marathon. Amanda and Ashlee are running it and Victoria and I are doing motivational pit crew at mile 14 and 19. We are going to put together our signs and load them up for our early trip on Sunday.

The weekend after that we have Victoria’s 5k as her ‘graduation’. I’m hoping that she’s ready for it and not in too much pain. I don’t care how much I hurt, i’m going to run with her and encourage her every step of the way! It will be so cool because we have a bunch of running team running with us. Then a couple weeks after that we have our first run of 2013 as our team.
Everything seems to be coming together as far as the races we have picked.
Birdie put together one run and I haven’t decided on the one I want to do yet. There is one race I want to do, but it conflicts with a half marathon trail run I have been kicking around. Who knows if I will even be ready for that one.
Lester hasn’t picked his race, but I am excited to see which one he does choose. My guess is it will be the Dirty Secret again. I wouldn’t mind that as that was one of my favorite trail runs!!

I’m glad to see 2012 coming to an end and 2013 starting. It’s been 3 really great years of ups and downs *wiggling eyebrows* and I think I learned a lot from them.
With a good solid group of friends with healthy things to keep us motivated, I am sure the next year will kick last years ass!