Baby steps to..

So training has officially started. Which means I have officially began a life of being sore. I had a strong start by missing our first group run this past Saturday. In all fairness to me, I was in Phoenix for B's wedding, but still not the best start. I should be an optimist here, and so I'll focus on Phoenix as being a great excuse for not running, and I do feel I'm pretty gifted in the area of making excuses. Go me.

I did a make-up run, 3 miles, and then used the Aids Marathon special formula to figure out what my time should be in December. Well based on my inability to read the instructions, I have two potential completion times, either 6hours and 59 minutes or 6 hours and 6 minutes. The winner last year won in something like 2 hours and 17 min. What a sucker. I am going to get much more bang for my buck than they are. Those Kenyans are going to travel all that way and pay all that money for only 2hrs. Not me, I'm going to make the most of the trip and really make the experience last. In fact, after I finish in 7hrs or so, I might turn around and do it in reverse (reversing the course, not running backwards)

I still need to purchase my initial equipment (first pair of shoes, water bottle and belt...) but I'm going to wait until I go to the group run this Saturday. I want to see what the cool kids are wearing, so I can match them and hope to be cool as well. I think Z Cavaricci or IOU have some new shoes out. That's still popular....right?

I also got my Fundraising Kit this week, so I'm brainstorming fundraising ideas. People, give me some feedback and ideas. I'm thinking of a few of the O-so-popular Bar parties at maybe the Dark Horse and some other local bar. My other big idea is a poker tournament or two with half going to the pot and half going to kick AIDS in the in the nads. I'm hoping work will match all of my funds as well, but I haven't started researching that yet. Give me some ideas.

Oh, gotta go and try to put a quick 3 mile speed walk on the way to the weekly card game.