Running? Yep.
“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” – John Bingham
You can’t beat a high-five from your son as you wrap up the last running segment of the day on your 5K training program.
Suzanne and I recently embarked on a weight-loss journey together. We’re a couple of weeks in and doing – and feeling – great!
As we started that, our sons and I started to talk about ways to add more physical activity into our day-to-day. Our youngest, Andrew, and I started talking about getting into running together.
He quickly pivoted to “encourager” mode, and said he wanted to be my running buddy and coach. He said it’s something we could start doing together.
Sounds great to me!
As we started considering goals, one of the first things that came to mind was the RunDisney runs at Walt Disney World, a place we both love. So we set a stretch goal of running the 5K together at the Springtime Surprise this coming April, supporting a charity we love – Kellsie’s Hope. Sometime soon, we might be asking for donations to help support Kellsie’s Hope and our run with them.
Then we found a local race this fall, right at the end of our training program, to be our first 5K together. We’ve entered the Hot Cider Hustle in Forest Park this October.
We’re now a week into a Zero to 5K training program and have been through the ups and downs of starting cold and hitting the road with running shoes and a running buddy. We’ve had a hot morning, a morning with drizzle, and a cold morning. We’ve had the usual aches and pains. But we’ve also started to see great joy in the runs.
We’ll be running the Springtime Surprise 5K in April with our mutual friend Jacob, my old coworker (former CMO) at Exodus. Jacob, Andrew, and I all share a love of Disney. And Andrew and Jacob share the same birthday (years apart).
I’ve also now found a small network of coworkers who are into running the Disney runs, and one member of my team who has a Disney run on his bucket list. There might be more of those in my future.
Eventually Andrew would like to do the “Dopey Challenge”, which is 4 days at Disney: the 5k on day 1, a 10k on day 2, a half marathon on day 3, and a full marathon day 4. I told him I’ll be at the finish line to cheer him on for the half and the full when he does that. 🤣
For now, we’ll keep training, and I’m always eager to hear Andrew cheer us on with his, “We can do it!” as we tackle each run. And we’ll keep inviting you along.
“Remember, the feeling you get from a good run is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around wishing you were running.” – Sarah Condor
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