Ogden Marathon 2010 – The Beginning

As many of you know, I have always had the dream of running a marathon someday. Well it’s official, I am signed up to run a full marathon in Ogden on May 15, 2010. To be honest with you, I am terrified. I have always enjoyed running and find it very therapeutic. Back in high school I was very athletic and could jog non stop from the Layton/Kaysville border all the way to Clearfield with no troubles. 10 years later I could barely jog around the block. I have tried training for a marathon over the past 2-3 years by myself and always ended up in pain, discouraged, and ended up quitting. So when Tiffany heard about a marathon training program on X96, I went to the meeting for Team In Training.

Team in Training is an awesome sports training organization that helps raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS). That’s why I need your help and support. I am training to run for the Ogden Full Marathon in May and have set a goal to raise $3,000. Now let me introduce you to Toby, the adorable little boy that I’m sponsoring and who I’m running for. You can read his story HERE.

I am very excited because I began training and jogging again back on 11/10 of this year and I couldn’t even jog one mile all the way and I was in so much pain. In the past when training on my own, I would easily give up and never get past that one mile jog. Being on Team In Training has really helped me push through the pain though and I now have a purpose to run. I just completed a 4.5 mile jog this past Saturday with the Team and didn’t walk at allI still have a long way til the marathon and hope you will find it in your hearts to help support me in this great cause. Any donation is greatly appreciated and I will be announcing some VERY awesome and exciting fundraising opportunities in a future blog post. I will be hosting a full day workshop to be announced that will have half the fees donated to my fundraiser as well as some limited edition print sales and mini sessions as wellSo please check back often and donate what you can.