WOOHOO Wednesday!

Today is the day I take time to let you in on all things woohoo that I have going on in my life.

Today, I have plenty going on in my life that is woohoo worthy.

First off I have this little event called my first marathon coming up on Saturday. I am, to say the least, super excited about running my first ever marathon. I am excited about going to the expo, excited about picking up my bib, excited about lining up with 10 to 16 thousand other excited marathoners, half marathoners, and relay members. It will be an epic day in my running career.

Yesterday afternoon I went out for a run with my two older boys, "The J" and "The I". I have written about running with "The J" before, if you would like to read about our prior outings you can check them out here and here.  However, up until just recently "The I" has not wanted to or was some what discouraged to run with us. I think that he was a little bit intimidated by the distance that we were doing and felt that he wouldn't be able to do it, that his body wouldn't let him go that far. He isn't the most athletically inclined person, but we have been working with him because he wants to "tri" next year and he has marked improvement.  Anyway, I digress, we were going out to do a mile in preparation for the 1 mile kids fun run being held during the marathon this weekend. Both boys are planning to run it if for no other reason than to get race bling and a t-shirt. Seeing how "The I" has never gone a mile before we set out to get one in.  Before we got a quarter of a mile in "The I" started complaining that he couldn't do it, and that his leg were getting tired. I knew that this was just a cop out as he was doing bricks with .5 mile runs just a couple weeks earlier.  So, like a good coach I pushed him, and when he started to get upset and complain I pushed him a little bit more. You know what he ended up going 1.17 mile by the time we finished. While all of this is great and awesome it really isn't the true woohoo part of this experience.  The woohoo part came when I asked him if he thought he could run a mile before we left and he said "no". Then I asked him if he just ran a mile and he said "YES".
The truth is, he could have done it all along, he just needed to believe that he could.

This past weekend I took my wife rock climbing for the first time for her birthday (it was my first time too). We both had so much fun we can't wait to go back, and take the boys with us too.
Well, today is her birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUPER WIFE!! I can't imagine our life without you, hope you had a good birthday.

I am sure that I am missing some pretty woohoo worthy items, but at this time I can not think of anything. So for now this will have to be all.