So here we are....

Yep, have decided to try a blog. Figure why not, right? Good place for me to keep track of training, events, travel and life in general.

Brief intros:
Hi, we're Liz and Patrick and we're adult onset athletes. We live outside Chicago (go Cubbies) and have a 19yr old son who has been accepted to Manchester University for fall term (that's Manchester UK). Yes, we will be broke for the next 4 years.

Got our first taste of running during a 5K on a very blustery Chicago November day 2007 then followed it up with a fantastic 5K at WDW during marathon weekend. Seeing others walking/running the half and full, plus talking to people got us thinking, "Hey, if they can do it, so can we!". Plus...bling envy....gotta admit it.

So we came home, looked up training plans, found great people on line to talk to, get advice (and abuse) from and started our journey to the WDW 1/2 marathon in Jan 2009. Family thinks we're nuts but that's not the first time.

Since then we've done the 2 more 5Ks, a 10K and the final Minnie 15K at WDW.
What do we have planned between now and Jan? Lots and I'm hoping to figure out this blog page so I can list them separately.

Think that's it for now but stay tuned as I will update often.