By the time I had found the Couch to 5K running plan, I had already spent quite a bit of time “thinking”.   Thinking about how hard it might be to run.  Thinking of every excuse why I shouldn’t  do it.  Thinking about my creaky knees.  Thinking about how my feet  hurt.  Thinking…thinking…..well, I’m here to tell you that as good as thinking is……thinking doesn’t make the scale move.    So I sat on my couch with my laptop and did a google search for  “learn to run a 5k” — and there it was — C25K.com.   Read the rest of this entry →

In the beginning of the summer of 2010, two unrelated things happened that shaped my journey in a meaningful way.  The first one happened at home, the other happened in the Weight Watchers meeting. Read the rest of this entry →

As they say, you have to crawl before you can walk.  And you have to walk before you can run.   Walking was (and is) an awesome way to start being more active. Read the rest of this entry →

As I’m writing this — it’s Sunday, Marathon Day in NYC and I can’t help but be filled with wonder!   Read the rest of this entry →

Ok, so The Season of Eating has begun and on Saturday Meeting/Weigh in Day at Weight Watchers, Halloween won!  🙁

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So here is the deal.  The only race I have run so far is a 5K, which is 3.1 miles.  I’ll be writing more about that experience in a later post.  So why the Half Marathon?  Well, my Half Marathon journey is less about the 13.1 miles itself.  It’s about BELIEVING.   Read the rest of this entry →

Waking up takes time.  And it doesn’t happen all at once.  I think it starts as a whisper in the back of your head.  … your pants are tight and these are the new ones you just bought….. then somehow, you go back to sleep.  Until it happens again, and it’s louder this time.   Read the rest of this entry →

Hi there, I’m Diane.  I’m 45.  I’m a loving wife to Peter.  A proud mom of two lovely teenage daughters Erin and Cait.  A professional working woman.  And I’m a runner.  Wow.  Did I just write that?  A runner?  If you know me, you’d understand what a big deal those words represent.  I’ve spent the majority of my “free time, my non-working life” immobile.  On the couch.   Read the rest of this entry →