The Half Marathon!  I completely blame my friend Brenna for making me do this crazy thing.  She will not take the credit or blame for it however.  She signed up to run a half marathon in Las Vegas in December (it would be her third).  She invited me to come and spend the weekend with her (she did not invite me to run - I think she knew my stance on running).  I considered how great a weekend in Vegas in December would be and every time I thought about it I also thought about what I would be doing while she was running13.1 miles.  I began to think that I would feel guilty just cheering her from the sidelines.  That is when the crazy thoughts started to run through my head.  I should do it, I should run.  I knew it was all over when I started researching training plans and shoes.  It was really all over when I bought a copy of "Runners World" magazine.  I signed up, paid my money, and sent Brenna a text.  I'm still not sure of her initial feelings about it.  They were probably something like "Oh great, now I'm going to have to babysit a non-runner for 13.1 miles".  I printed out my plan and started running.  It scared me to death to look ahead and see that eventually my "short" runs would be 5 and 6 miles long.  But, the long story made short is that I did it. We did it.  We ran the whole way (except when we were eating energy gels) and finished in about 2 1/2 hours.  Way to go us.  Since December 2nd, I have run a total of 2 miles.  I didn't find the love of running that many people said I would.  Who knows?  Maybe someday I will do it again but not for now.

 At the finish