Running

In two weeks, I am running at Disney's Animal Kingdom in the Inaugural Expedition Everest 5K run, obstacle course and scavenger hunt.  My 16 year old son is my team mate.  Hopefully he'll wait for me to finish the 5k before he goes on with the rest of the events.  (actually he has to, we have to start the obstacle course and scavenger hunt at the same time.)  I've got about two weeks to get serious about doing some running.  Well, not really two weeks, I work full time and am taking three classes at SCC this semester so it's more like 7 days.  This should be a really neat race through the Animal Kingdom.  My doctor says running will help keep my weight down better than any diet.  I started getting Runner's World magazine and the people in the pictures looks so nice and toned, I want to look like them.  It would just help if I actually got out there and ran.  I did about an hours worth of yard work yesterday, weeding, bending over, picking stuff up.  My legs are a little sore, but since I have to go the grocery store and the gym is on the way anyway, I'll head to the gym first and run for about half an hour then go to the store.  Disney has a Princess 1/2 marathon starting in March that I would like to attempt and Tiffany said she would do it with me, so I guess I had better get running.