Well, we made it through our first year - it has been interesting - we had a lot of people participate, and 10 of those reached the 1200 mile mark! Congratulation to all who participated. I hope you found the challenge rewarding to you.

We are going to do it again in 2013. Starting on January 1st and ending on December 31 - the challenge is to complete 1200 miles running, jogging, and/or walking. Because I have been a little slow on getting started this year - I may actually go from Chinese New year to Chinese New Year - if you would like. If you have been keeping track of your miles in January and February - submit them - you are all the closer to reaching the 1200 mile goal!

This can be done in the snow, rain, sun, wind, or on the treadmill, eliptical, or if you are really lucky maybe you will get some miles in on a beach somewhere!?

To complete the challenge, you would need to log 3.86 miles per day x 6 days a week. You can do it!

If you complete the challenge, there will be a SUPER COOL shirt that you can purchase, designed by our very own Cardston Kids Marathon Designer - - - OHHH and bragging rights too!

To sign up, send me a note on the facebook page, leave a comment here on this blog, or just enter your miles in the log at the bottom of the blog.

At the end of each month, you will need to send me your completed miles and I will post them here on this blog. (Tip: you should be at 100 miles every month!) Let's get at it!! This is going to be FUN!



Monday, October 1, 2012

October - what have you learned?

30 days hath September, Holy Cow it's almost NOVEMBER!

For me, October means falling leaves, Canadian Thanksgiving, cool mornings, dark evenings, my kids cross country season quickly coming to an end, and an inevitable snowfall ........

Oh come on, who's kidding who . . . . as of yesterday it means I have

3 weeks of hard training left,
4 weeks till I get on a train and leave,
5 weeks till the eminent, impending, IRONMAN FLORIDA!  Sigh. . . .

Ya - it's kind of a big deal in my life.  I've been working on this for almost a year now, and I have learned a lot of life lessons along the way.  One of which is the following quote. . . .

"Sometimes, and for all of us this is true, we are running away . . . 
Sometimes we are running to search . . . 
But if we realize deep down that the truth of our running 
is that in our running, in our moving, we 'find' ourselves . . . 
Then for us running is the gift that lets us know ourselves deeper."

 - Lizzy Hawker



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