And so it begins

I sent my credit card form into Susan G. Komen today along with my Chicago Marathon confirmation number. It is official! I am signed up. I even began my fundraising page on active.com.

As part of the program I will be on the 'Virtual Team" for Chicago. This means I will train on my own but will have access to a training program from active.com and the Team. I'll also get a training t-shirt as well as certain incentives if I meet different Fundraising goals. The minimum for Chicago is $2200 which will get me a race singlet to wear on October 11th.

I am definitely very excited (and also very nervous). I think this will be just the thing I need to start getting focused and get off the couch. I had a couple of runs this week that went really, really well, including a 10-miler last Saturday with my friend KL who was in from Colorado. Neither of us had been running long at all but somehow cranked it out with few side-effects. It definitely gave me the confidence I'll need to carry me through the Yuengling Shamrock 1/2 Marathon in March.

I've started tracking mileage on the left of this site which should be a neat thing to see progress. I am definitely interested in how many miles I will run over the course of the next eight months!

And so it begins.