Woo Hoo!! My name was chosen.

Wow!! It looks like another hot summer of running. My name was chosen in the St. George Marathon Lottery. The really cool thing, besides the fact that my girlfriend from Boise is also training for this and we will meet up the day before the race, but my daughter Hailey who lives in Utah is also going to run in it. Everyone is so much faster than me but that is not why I run it, so I'm cool with that. Yesterday I bought my new running shoes. I really liked mine from last year so I bought another pair, "the new and improved Asics Kayano Gel". Training in the heat of Arizona is pretty tricky especially on the long run each week. It increases each week and by about July I have to run it starting at 4:30am. I meet a girlfriend at the high school track for safety reasons and we begin counting laps. After about mile 8 and around 6:15am (85degrees)I have to drive to the Gym and finish on the treadmill. Nothing worse than forgetting which lap it is so this year I am buying a really cool Garmin to help me with that. Well, the bad part when I train is I can't stop talking about it so I hope that you won't get too bored with my blog for the next four months. My favorite runs last year were at my brother's beach house. Running in the morning with the cool sea waves splashing on the beach was just plain awsome!!! Not to mention ending with my shoes off and standing in the cold ocean up to my knees was amazing. I will always remember that week.