40 X 40 - 3 Down 37 To Go!!!

So, the MiniMarathon is finally over and I'm officially 3 races closer to my goal of 40 races by the time I turn 40, which IS still far away - thank you very much!  If all of my training runs would have been races, I'd be at my goal by now.  (I'm trying not to be bitter that my 12 mile runs, 10 mile runs, 8 mile runs, etc. counted for nothing towards my goal.)  More importantly though, I've learned to actually enjoy running and now find myself itching to get out there.  

My race times weren't the best, but I achieved one of my goals by finishing the race without walking; thanks to my friends cheering me on the last 1/2 mile!  I officially count this race as the biggest physical athletic achievement in my life... I wonder what will come next?

40 X 40 - 2 Down 38 To Go!!!

A handful of months ago, I posted about a goal I made to compete in 40 races by the time I turn 40.  Fortunately, I still have just under 7 years to complete it.  This past weekend, I came one step closer!!!  Crazy me signed up for the mini-marathon, here in Indy, for my first time.  I've heard it's a little bit further than my previous longest race of 5 miles in 7th grade!  To be prepared, I also signed up for a training team (I even caught myself training for the training).

This past weekend was race #2, a 5K that is part of the training series.  As you can tell by my time below, I still have a ways to go.  Baby steps!  Baby steps!

P.S.  If you're that walker that passed me... vengeance will be mine!  (If I can catch you!)

40 X 40

At 33 I've started to realize that my body doesn't recover the way it did when I was 16. (Although maybe it's because I wasn't getting up in the middle of the night with a baby and actually slept more than 5 hours/night.)

Well, I've decided to set a health goal for myself and steal my wife's idea of 40X40. By the time I turn 40 (7 years can fly by with kids) I plan to have completed 40 races/events. I kicked it off with the "Tour of Carmel" this past weekend which was a great 20 mile bike ride weaving through the neighborhoods. Rebecca, my AMAZING wife, just completed her first sprint triathlon and is about to run the Nike+ Women's Half Marathon , benefiting Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, on her 30th birthday weekend in San Francisco! What an inspiration!

With this past weekend over, I guess that makes 1 down and 39 to go!!!