December the 6th

Brandon, in Okinawa, will be running the Naha Marathon and I will be running Las Vegas Rock and Roll Marathon on Sunday, December the 6th. This will be Brandon's first marathon. He has been training hard while TDY in Afghanistan, getting in close to 700 miles. I tried to keep up but got in around 500 miles during the same amount of time. It has been fun and quite motivating. He would run his miles 12 hours before me and post them on his blog. I would check it out and try and run the same. I soon found out that there are a few draw backs to being 60 years old. I don't recuperate like a 34 year old body does. I did not have the energy in my legs to keep up the mileage that Brandon was putting in. Surprisingly I am not upset by this short fall. Over the years I have learned I have limitations and this is not a bad thing unless I let them be. I now look at the positive side. I ran 500 miles. When I did not want to run, Brandon's run motivated me to run. I have lost another 15 pounds. My blood pressure has come down and staying down. My cholesterol is way down and the good stuff is up. I feel very proud of myself for sticking with it and I hope I motivated Brandon when he didn't want to run. Both of us training for a marathon will keep us on track and should be all the motivation we need to complete our goals. I would like to run Vegas in at least 5hrs.30mins. and be 200 pounds. I know that I am setting goals for myself again, but having a goal is not that bad as long as you don't set yourself up to fail. I can have fun at Vegas and still run a 5:30, (maybe better?). I have ran the old Vegas course 5 times and my slowest has been 4:45 so with the training I have been doing I should be ok. Until next time.