Marathon here I come!

In relation to my previous post,a friend asked me to do the Rotorua Half Marathon with her next April.I have to say at first my response (in my head) was "HELL NO!" haha I'm not a runner!!In any way,shape or form.But I have been thinking about it and I have decided I'm going to do it.I wanted something,a goal,that was just for me,and this can be it!   (I am still deciding whether I walk or run it,think I am going to have to see,because right now I have no faith that I can run anything!)

 For now I am walking,and will for the next month to build up my fitness level.So far it has been 8 days and I have walked 26.3 km's!!Pretty flippin' happy with that (trying to average at least 3km's a day,but today I did 7.4 :) ).Eventually I will try running (though yesterday I managed to run 3 street light lengths,which doesn't sound like a whole heap ,but for me it was!).Steve is being wonderfully supportive and has been on a few walks with me (and wonderfully after me complaining that my legs and ankles were bung,showed me some awesome stretches).

So here's to a healthier,happier me!And you know the saying,when Mum is happy,the whole family is happy!

-side note,but does anyone else's children complain the whole way through a walk.Isabella (4) is comfortable in the pushchair,I give them food,books,toys everything and she still whinges!

-AND I have cut back what I am eating.Salads for all lunches now,weetbix for brekky,but still have the same dinners (I hated growing up and Mum always dieting and having different food to us,it really sucked and made me have a warped sense of self.So don't want to do that to my girls!).So I am hoping the exercise in change in eating will help,even a little,with my weight (had a horrible moment yesterday of the girl's kindy teachers thinking I had just had a baby,when I told them what they saw in the pushchair was the girls dolls,they both said " Í didn't think you looked very pregnant!' yeah great motivation right there haha.However I did have a relapse moment of wanting to just stop eating,bad habits die hard I guess).

But yay,feeling good!!!