I run 3-4 times per week now, 4 to 6 miles each time. I run 10K's perhaps 1x per month. Did Phoenix 1/2 marathon. Learned of the event through TNT. Wife's friend told her about the TNT routine. Wife does not run - signed on to walk the race. I had fallen off in terms of running and was going maybe 1x per week, if that, when wife said, "How about a 1/2 marathon?"

Uhh, yeah, how about not? But she shamed me into it. The coaches and other runners were just what I needed. I started running at least 2x per week, and more often 3x per week. I ran the event, but not with the TNT sponsors and group, as wife and I learned that fundraising involving spouses does not work - we know the same people. (Wife contacted my dad first and got $$ from him!). I was not going to be able to make the fundraising goal and had to back out of the TNT involvement, but joined wife for the race.

Now, I run 3x and sometimes 4x per week. My aching feet and ankles need some time off - I cannot run every day like some people (you know who you are!).

And one secret about me - I am a big time Steelers fan. Nobody would have known that, had I not mentioned it.

I like this web site and message board for moral support and inspiration. I'll read about those who are training for a marathon, just ran a marathon, etc., and I figure, "what the heck, I should get off my butt and do something." So, I'll go for a run.

Enjoy reading about those who have taken up running later in life. I wish I had started running 25 years ago. But what the heck - I am running now and I enjoy it. A lot.

Except, of course, for the soreness with running longer distances (7 miles, for me). Don't laugh - if you had told my friends and co-workers 20 years ago that I would be running more than a block, they would have laughed at you. Led by me, of course.

I can handle Steelers fans. They're not in our division Welcome aboard!

Go Cowboys!

And, you may appreciate that last year I was in the last two miles of an 18 mile run and I ran through Bloomfield and a bunch of people were waiting for a bus to go downtown to see a game and I yelled "GO STEELERS" and they started cheering like maniacs and I pretended they were cheering for me to get me through those last hard miles!!