Good friends...and half marathon?

So we've been trying to get Andrea over here for one of Kathy's visits for about a year now, I'm sure. And it finally happened! And on the same day as Kathy got to meet both of Andrea's children, I was offered Kathy's spot in the Boulder Half Marathon!!! She had signed up for it for the second year in a row but was unable to run it, and meanwhile Andrea had asked me no less than ten times to please, please run a half marathon with her. You know me: The generous gift of the free race entry--a costly little deal, might I add--was enough to get me thinking about it. And, just like that, I committed!

I got way too far from home on my first long run after this big decision, but my body showed me that day that I really could run for longer than the Bolder Boulder, which I'm sure is the longest I had previously run to date. And then for about the next three or four weeks I just tried to run as much and as long as I could, and thanks to my husband and some dear friends who watched the boys, I made it happen! I loved the long, beautiful, peaceful runs by myself, and I enjoyed a few other runs with a friend toward the end of my training, too. I'll leave you hanging now, so you'll have to check the blog soon to read more about the actual race on Labor Day.