Run for Fun?

I know I'm overweight.  It's no secret.  I'm fat.  I'm partially okay with that.

Basically that means that I'm okay with who I am and my image of myself isn't bad.  I'm a strong, beautiful woman.  My problem is that my weight is affecting my health. 

Recently Micah ran a race where he had to have a parent go with him.  He had a blast.  It was supposed to be me going through the race, but since I was unprepared due to a miscommunication and people forgetting stuff, Tony ran with him instead.  Tony couldn't really keep up. 

So here is me, the lady with health issues who needs to shed some pounds (I've gained 20 lbs. over the last 6 months), and my husband, who wants to be in better shape so he can keep up and have an easier time as an umpire, and my kids who fell in love with running and doing the obstacle course (which is what the race that Micah ran was).

So, we decided to start running together. 

Okay, this was kind of a difficult start for me because we had the flu raging through our house at the time, but we started anyway.  Tony got an app on his phone for a couch to 5k training, and we started.  I was exhausted at the end, and I didn't even do the whole thing (I walked instead of ran a few of the sets). The girls have been doing workouts in the mornings every day for a while, and they are doing well with that, so they didn't have as hard of a time, but the flu still took a toll, so they didn't always keep up either.

I've decided that as soon as I have the money, I'm signing us up for a 5k color run that is coming up in March.  Paying the money for it will hopefully help me to get as motivated as Tony is to do this thing.  I need to, the kids want to, and Tony is pretty determined to be in shape.  We'll see what happens.  If nothing else, I'll walk the 5k, but I want to be able to run it.

I told the kids that by next June (not the one coming up, but the following one) I want all of us to be able to do a triathlon (well, Tony doesn't like water, so he gets to train to just run).  It means that this summer we will be doing some serious swim training, bike rides as a family will be more common, and we are going to do the family walks/runs to gain some more stamina.  We want to be one of THOSE families.  The ones that can get things done without wiping ourselves out.  It's going to be a long road, but we will get there.