The Decision

My fiance and I are fairly active people.  We are constantly working on our house, doing yard work, going for walks, travelling, and partaking in various day to day activities.  But we have never really been athletes.  This week we decided to change that.   

Over the past couple of years, we have become more and more interested in being healthy.  This spring, we put a lot of work into starting a garden in our yard for vegetables, and gave up eating meat other than fish over 2 years ago.  But we know there is more we can do, and so we decided we are going to start the work to train for the Kauai Marathon in August of 2015.  

We are getting married this September, so that means we'll be spending our first year of marriage together working towards a pretty major physical goal, pushing ourselves and each other beyond what we previously thought we would be capable of.  

I have completed a marathon before and have run several 5Ks and a couple half marathons.  The thing is, I was never very confident in my running skills while completing these.  I always thought of myself as slow, as an amateur, not really as a runner.  I am hoping to change that and finally feel confident in my physical fitness

My fiance has never really been a runner, and this will be his first attempt to run in races, up to and including the marathon.  We have told a lot of our friends and family about this goal, and we get the feeling a lot of them don't really believe we'll follow through.  So, on that note, here we go!