For years I've been thinking that I should get in shape. Although I'm always on the go, I never get any actual exercise. This past semester I took a course called "Human Body in Health and Disease". I knew beforehand that things like hypertension and diabetes were bad, but after hearing exactly what all problems they can cause and why, I've decided that this is really my time to take better care of myself.
I'm starting with the Cool Running "Couch to 5K" plan. My older son is joining me. We did our first day yesterday. I couldn't even do the first half of the running sections, but was able to walk the entire distance. We're calling that "day 0", though, and will repeat day 1 tomorrow.
I've got a couple of goals to help mark my progress. The first is to accumulate the distance from my house in Wisconsin to Lake Buena Vista, FL (home of Walt Disney World, if you hadn't guessed!). It's 1257 miles from here to there, and I've now got two miles completed!
The second goal is to be in the Disney Half Marathon in 2012. I hope that by then I will be in good enough shape for it, and that we'll have enough money saved up to really make a nice trip of it.
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