Running Friends

So I don't want to start off this blog with a bad running report but today that is what is going to happen:( I was super excited for this run!  My good friend Jacque (on right) was in town looking to buy a house because she is moving back to Indianapolis.  Yippee!!  So we decided to meet on the monon trail for a run.  My best running partner, Lisa (on left), was also up for a run.  The plan was to run 6 miles with Jacque and then Lisa and I were going to do another 6 or so to get our long run in for the week.  Well my body was achy from mile 1.  Too bad because it was a beautiful morning!

I love the monon trail!  I did do 6 miles at a pretty slow pace.  The time did go pretty fast just talking away.  I can't wait to do more runs with these fun girls!  Hopefully next time my body will cooperate!  So now I have to figure out how to get my long run in for the week.  What do you do after a bad run?

First post on running

Wow this is my first blog post!  So since this is my first post I guess I should tell you about my running story.  And maybe if I figure it out I can put it under the tab running story.  Like everybody else does!
Oh and if you are reading this I guess you should know that this a running blog.  I am going to attempt to document my running journey.

First let me say that I am not a natural runner!  I never did track or cross country!   I guess you could say that I was fairly athletic in high school.  I played varsity volleyball and softball.  Volleyball was my true love.  In college I started to run to get in some sort of exercise.  Nothing consistent.  Then I moved to Indianapolis to start medical school.  In Indianapolis they have the largest half marathon in the world-45,000 people run it!  So I signed up.  I did some training and ran it with my sister.  I think our time was around 2:03.  I had a great time but the next day I took a pregnancy test and I was pregnant!!  Yea!!  Well I then finished medical school, pediatric residency, had 2 more kids and running sort of took a back seat.  I did do 2 half marathons in there with minimal training.  After my third and last? baby was born I decided to start running again.  I trained for the Indianapolis mini marathon again.  I ran it in 1:57 and felt great!  I thought maybe I could do a marathon?
So that is what I did!  I started training for the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon.  Every time my long run increased I fell in love with running even more! So how did the marathon go?  Well I finished:)  I will post my entire thoughts on the marathon in another post.  But I will say the first thing I said when I crossed the finish line was "I can't wait to do another one!"  Now I am training for my second marathon- The Chicago Marathon in October:)  Here we go...
Jaime