The Beginning

A New Year and a New Beginning for this blog. I intend to be much more diligent with my posting and a lot more interesting. Many big changes are coming for me in the next year and this will be one of the places that I post these changes.

To start the year off on the right now I ran in a small fun run called the John Dailey Memorial One One Run. I ran it with my cousin Rebekah and her cousins Laura and Emily, their Dad Dan, and Emily's husband David. This was all sort of a last minute deal, I had not even heard about the run until the Thursday before it happened.

The day was a cold one, but with sunshine breaking through from time to time. No snow was on the ground as the rain and warm weather from the previous two days had washed it all away. I found out later that the wind chill was somewhere in the teens. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a shirt, they sold out because of the nearly 800 people that were there.

In the end I think I finished between 15-20th for the people who did the two lap 4.4 mile option. I ran it in 0:32:36.63 which I feel was pretty good given the weather, and how little training I had done. I had only ran 3 times over break.

The goal this year is to run the first ever Kalamazoo Marathon in a time under 3 hours 10 minutes. Ideally I would like to be under 3 hours, but I am going to be realistic for my first marathon.

One thing I observed during the run was how many people have all the gear and look the part of runners, but aren't at all very fast at all. I don't have nearly the proper gear compared to some. I was wearing a pair of soccer sweat pants with a pair of running sweats underneath, a long sleeve shirt, a North Face lightweight pullover, and a pair of Adidas running gloves. Some people were decked out head to toe in purpose made gear and were slow as can be. I just cannot understand the people that dress the part and cannot perform.