How to Make Your Spouse Laugh...

I asked Chris today if he'd like to do a 10K walk with me. I figured I already knew that answer, but thought it never hurts to ask.

It wasn't quite a laugh, more of a small snort, then a yawn and "It's too hot around here."

"Well, actually, it starts at 5:30 in the morning."

Sneer. "I'm definitely not doing that."

On the news the other night, I saw an interview with a 90-year-old woman who will enter the Honolulu Marathon for the 5th time this year. "I'm sure I can better my time," she said. Intrigued, since I didn't realize Honolulu had a marathon, I looked up the web site. The latest top 10 seem to be dominated by Russians, Kenyans, and Japanese, but sure enough, there's a marathon here every December.

AND there's a 10K walk as part of it! So I have officially registered for that. I wanted to try some 5Ks, since that's just 3 miles. But I did 10K Volksmarches in Germany (okay, that was 8 years ago, when I didn't have a bad right knee and a bad left foot), so I'm hoping doing 6 miles in 35 days will be do-able without being overly painful. I have already ordered new Level 3 shoes from Easy Spirit, my favorite brand!

In 2006, 28,637 people entered and 24,575 finished. There's no qualifying time; if you pay your money and show up, you can run. The top male finisher was from Kenya and finished in 2:13:42; the top female was a Russian finishing at 2:27:19. One man and one woman competed in the 90-94 age group and both finished. 4,888 people did the walk. The marathon starts at 5:00am, and they start us walkers at 5:25am. I figure I'll finish the walk at about the same time the elite runners finish the whole marathon course...

The main thing is that I hope it will be motivating to get me out and moving!