Now it's getting serious...

Well... we've started working out with our trainer. And he's kicking my butt already. Good!

As I have mentioned before, we're working out with Tim Ives who owns The Body Project here in Iowa. He's also in my same neighborhood, so I'm patronizing the local businesses. Tim has lots of experience with training as well as with running and training of runners.

I told him that I'd like to get faster in the 5k distance as well as in my half marathon. I'm hoping to break 2 hours in May. That's my goal anyway. Don't know if I'll make it there, but I have to try.

I like the plan so far. He's focusing on running for time right now just to build up a good base. Then we'll start to hit it hard later this spring as race day approaches. He's also working on getting my girlfriend Dorann up to speed so that we can run shorter races together and enjoy being outside. It's really important to me that we share this part of our lives together so we can enjoy being outside and active as we get older.

On Wednesday night Tim had me lift weights while Dorann ran on the treadmill. He kicked my butt pretty good, not letting me do anything halfway. He really stresses proper form, which I appreciate as I tend to shortcut at times (like when I'm tired). Tonight we switched places and it was really tough to run anywhere near as fast as I did on Tuesday. My legs felt soooo heavy! But I kept with it and had a pretty good run anyway.

Now we're recording what we eat so that Tim can fine tune that part of our life so we eat what we need to when we need to. I can tell you that this is my achilles heal. I just don't make time to prepare good food and then I end up eating junk. I really need to work on this and I appreciate that Tim is making me be honest.

Keep up with the blog and we'll see how this experiment goes. I'll start putting some stats down once we start generating them. Shouldn't be too long now.

See you on the roads folks!
Alex