New Floor

Since moving in to our new home almost a year ago, Shannon and I wanted to tear out the white carpet upstairs. Shortly after moving in we decided to save up so we could change it out for either laminate or hardwood floor. A couple week ago it became official. We now have a new laminate floor upstairs. The whole process took about two weeks from pulling out the old carpet, screwing down the subfloor, and putting the new laminate in. We owe a ton to Shaun who spent two weekends in a row visiting just to help us labor away. I hope to take some pictures in the next few days so I can give everyone a visual!

Our next big project will be the patio around the firepit outside. Can't wait to sit around it this summer enjoying a fire with friends!

Results are In

MACAA finally updated their site and now the results are finally available. Though this was a "fun run", I was impressed with myself being 17 of 25. I know that doesn't sound so impressive but I was expecting that my first run would land me close to last.

My overall time was 27.53, which if I calculated correct puts me just a hair below a 9 minute mile. I was quite surprised with the results. I haven't run seriously since high school days and with only a month of training and still 40lbs overweight, I was quite surprised with the results.

For more details you can get the results of the race here.

My first Official Run

I was inspired by my friend Dan and how he has turned his life around in regards to his health and wanted to follow suit. As part of this endeavor I decided it would be fun for the both of us to try to tackle a triathlon. No worries I am not crazy enough to just jump into that. We are currently talking about meeting up next summer to compete.

Back to today, as part of my training to get in better shape I have started working on the worst of the three events, which is running in my case. I realized in order to keep myself motivated I needed to start signing up for some runs. If I know I have to participate in an event I don't want to be the last across the line.

For the last month and a half I have started training for today's 5k run. Nothing to large but for a non runner I thought this would be a good start. I am happy to announce that I made it the whole 5k without stopping, without being last, and most importantly kept my goal of staying under a 10 minute mile. I am not sure how fast I completed this since I need to wait for results Monday morning, however I do know it was 20 some minutes. My guess probably close to a 9 minute mile :) So I will keep you guys posted and let you know if I sign up for another run next month... Brrrr...