I'll take the first plunge...

This will be my first ever blog. Yes, I too am one of the blogging inept. I have to admit I'm rather excited about finally taking that plunge. I write all day long at work, but it's plans, policies, etc...nothing even remotely close to putting my own personal thoughts and quandaries into cyberspace for the world to read. My writing at work is very short, concise and to the point - very BORING to say the least. I'm looking forward to seeing what colorful thoughts may emerge from my experiences being a mom and part of the SMR 2008 team!


I'm relatively new to the entire seeMOMMYrun team. I joined my local team here in Fredericksburg about 2 months ago. As a full-time working mom, I unfortunately don't get to meet up with my mommy friends very often. But so far, I'm making our 6:30 a.m. Saturday runs/coffee and we've now added evening track workouts which i desperately need. I just got back to running for real this past March. I was a military police officer for 5 years and left active duty on 2003. Even while in the Army, I truly did not enjoy running one bit. I only ran because I had to as part of our Physical Training and being forced to and preparing to take the dreaded PT test (sit ups, push ups and 2-mile run). The only training I did was to ensure I ran my 2 miles in under 16 minutes in order to score a perfect 300pts on the PT test (my competitive side coming out)...other than that I ABSOLUTELY HATED to run. I ran in high school, but I was a sprinter. I used to watch those other girls run the 1600 and 3200 and thought they were crazy. I loved sprinting but was not all interested in any long distance running. With that all said back to year 2007. I was recruited to run on an Army 10-miler team from work. I figured what the heck, I'll give it a whirl. So I began training...and before I knew it I was running laps around my subdivision after my sweet hubby mapped out a 5-mile route. I became rather obsessed with reading the training links on runnersworld.com and MANY other running sites to include seemommyrun.com. And before long, I ran 10 miles the week before my Army 10-miler race just to prove to myself that I could actually run 10 miles and not embarrass myself by not crossing that finish line. Race day came and went and I truly surprised myself with a great finish. So now I figured, if I can do 10 miles, then a half marathon certainly was not out of reach....I did my first half marathon in Dec at 1:54...as I came around the corner to the finish line my thoughts were consumed with "Hey, I can totally do a marathon!" So 2008 Marine Corps Marathon here I come!! I'm hooked on running now and thanks to my SMR buddies I'll maintain a great degree of motivation and encouragement. Ok, so that wasn't so bad! I'm officially a blogger!!!