Once I made 3 miles as a goal, I realized I could do a 5K. I looked into various events and found the Komen Race for the Cure in Atlanta (where my sister lives) in May. I called my sister and told her about it. She decided she wanted to have that as a goal for herself as well. We told my other sister about it and decided that we would make it into a sister's weekend, something we haven't been able to do much because of everything going on (plus the fact that other sister lives in Europe). Well, our sister's weekend blossomed into a Team of 20 being formed for the Race made up of family and friends. Mom even got Dad's caregiver to stay with him and went. I did the Race with a personal goal of completing it in under an hour -- and I did it in 58 minutes - 4 months after barely being able to complete a mile in 30 minutes.
Once the Race was over, we decided to keep up Team Life Is Good (my sister's idea -- she has such a fabulous attitude about everything she has been through -- but that is a whole other story) for the Race for the Cure in Houston in October. But I needed another goal to shoot for because I was starting to slack off on my walking. So I started exploring longer distances. In July, the local USA Fit group started training for the Houston Marathon that is held in January every year. I thought about it and figured I could at least do a half. The training started out so easy, that I actually started training for the full, and I figured I would switch over to the half marathon group when the training got too hard.
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