Running Around

I have to apologize to those that frequently check this blog to see if anything has been added. Seems so easy to just post pictures and link them. We'll see how ambitious I get in keeping this up. I guess people are usually more interested in photos than text anyway.

Halloween is rapidly approaching and we have been literally running around to all sorts of parties between family and school and work. No doubt the kids will get their fair share of candy this year. They've already been to the Casaday Halloween party last night at Tami's parents and then went to a neighborhood party on Saturday. Isaac had his pre-school party today and Brooklyn has a Halloween parade at her school tomorrow. Then it's off to Novell to go around to the offices here in the building (where if you consider there are 8 floors in the building and around 100 offices on each floor, that's a lot of potential). Then we have the normal trick-or-treating around our neighborhood and now Brian, Tami's brother would like us to come to his apartment later in the evening. The poor kids will need a sugar high just to keep walking.

Speaking of running around, I have embarked on a journey I never thought I'd do. I have committed to run a marathon next year with Tami. Not may couples can say they ran a marathon together. It all started with purchasing a decent pair of running shoes, loading my iPod shuffle with 80's rock music and "borrowing" Tami's running GPS watch. The goal is to run a half marathon in January down in St. George. Then the Ogden Marathon (same one that Tami ran) in May. I run 3 times a week and have recently started running here at work during my lunch break. Novell has a nice workout facility with showers and lockers that makes it very easy to take an hour break and run. I typically have been running 3-4 miles at a time with a longer run once a week (I did 6 miles last Friday). After about a month and a half of this, it feels good to be in better shape. I frequently take the stairs each morning to my office on the 7th floor and I don't get nearly as winded as I used to. I ran my fastest mile yesterday during my workout (7:11). My second mile was (7:13) and I was on course to get a sub 7:30 3rd mile until I got caught for trespassing on a dirt road that is not very well marked at all. The guy chewed me out for a good minute, which destroyed my pace. The funny thing about this whole running a marathon thing is that Tami and I never work out together because of the kids. Time to get another running stroller so that we can all go out together.

I also found this cool website that tracks your runs. You just upload the GPS data to the website and it gives you all sorts of interesting data. Check out my 6 mile run by clicking HERE. Well, gotta run!