How this blog came about

January 1st, 2009, a totally out of shape and overweight 40 plus female was thinking about goals for the new year. One of the goals she wanted to work towards was to be more physically fit and she needed to come up with a plan. A few years back a friend had introduced her to a walk/run program that she tried for a little while and loved, but then stopped for some reason. Last year another friend ran her first road race. In November she got a WiiFit and recently opened up the free run portion of the game. These facts rolled around in her head and an idea started to form. After doing some research into different training programs and for running events in her province, she shared the idea with her sister and the idea grew even more, a plan was started, family and friends were invited to join in, and then this blog was created.

This year we are working towards transforming from the inactive couch potatoes that we presently are into Road Runners that will participate in a 5k run in September 2009. We will be using a "Couch to 5K Conservative Running Program" available online as a guide for our initial training. It is a very slow growing training program that we should be able to handle. Each week we will post the plan for the upcoming week and at the end of the week will report on how we are doing. As this time of the year is not great for outdoor running where we live, most of our training, especially at the beginning, will be indoors and may include a lot of simple walking/running on the spot, possibly using the WiiFit, but we figure anything is better than nothing.

You are welcome to join us. The more the merrier. :)