Spuds Gone Wild

I read about the "Couch Potato to 10 K" program on Busy Mom's blog quite some time ago. Jeff is currently training to run in the Air Force Marathon in September. He found a marathon training program on the Internet and is following a schedule to get ready. Which is very similar to the Couch Potato program, only harder. I am the one who wrote up his schedule onto a calendar for him. I buy and prepare meals for him to lose some weight to make the running easier. While he is out running I am sitting on the couch, reading blogs or Book Worm books. Then he comes home and tells me all about his run.

I have noticed during our marriage that Jeff really enjoys life. He always has these projects, like his marathon or a hike. He has plans, accomplishments, plays team sports, etc. I am always in the background, taking care of stuff to facilitate his busy schedule. He is always happy and enthusiastic and I am a bit of a curmudgeon. What I am saying is that I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder that in our marriage Jeff is having the time of his life and I am washing his underwear.

I have been discussing this with Jeff for weeks and have really been making him mad. He is the world's best husband and does not understand what it is that he is doing wrong. Which is nothing, but I am still mad, at him for being happy.

I am making some changes in my life, trying to eat better, trying to exercise, trying to find that elusive thing called happiness. I see how happy Jeff is and think that maybe if I do some of the things he does I will be happy too. Using him as a model of how to live life to the fullest. Step one, find someone to wash my underwear. Kidding. I have delegated some of the chores around to the other members of the house. We have a chore chart. Everyone has to pitch in at dinner time, instead of me doing all the work while they watch TV and goof around. Now we are all in the kitchen getting it ready and cleaning it up and we all pitch in with the evening Lily duties as well. I like that we are working together and that divided the evening chores just take a few minutes.

Now I am in training for a 10 K. This gives me a chance to talk about my training with Jeff, while he is talking about his training. Sunday, Jeff ran 12 miles and I walked for 30 minutes, but it is similar, sort of. Now it seems that many of you are also interested in this training thing. I had an idea. Call me crazy. What if we were to do this training together, over the Internet, working toward a goal. A real life goal. What if we were to train to run a real 10 K, together. Jeff is traveling to Ohio to run a marathon, I can travel to somewhere to run a 10 K. We all could.

Are you guys interested in having a get together. We could find a way to get all of us together, run a 10 K together, somewhere/anywhere and then spend a weekend just the girls. Get aways from husbands, kids, school, jobs and have a retreat of sorts. We can discuss our books, drink wine, eat cookies. Mandy of us are military wives who have friends all over the place, friends we love but don't get to see very often. We could invite our far away friends to come too. If we make this week one, or we could make next week, week one, we will be ready by the end of November. We can look up on the Internet and find a 10 K. We can find accommodations and have ourselves a little get together. A spuds gone wild weekend. We could make t-shirts.

I'll write a Spud's Gone Wild entry every Sunday outlining our plan for that week. Everyone can recap the previous week, give pointers for finding time and places to get the job done. Whether or not we do a get together we can still do the training together virtually. I think this should be week one, but am willing to do week one again next week if that is the majority rule.

Week one: 3 days of activity - Easy walking 30 minutes.