Mandy Knits a Lot and other musings from a pastor's wife

I'm writing this for my brother Chris, but anyone can read it. When Dave and I were in college (Dave at William Carey and I at University of Southern Miss), we were dating. Dave was working during the day and taking classes at night. I seem to recall that he was going to be unable to attend his nighttime statistics class and was out of absences. So, me being the supportive girlfriend, I went in his place. I told the professor, Dr. David Allen, that I would be there to take notes for Dave since he couldn't be there. He told me that was fine, but there would be no notes. It was a test night. He told me I was welcomed to take the test if I wanted to. So I stayed just for fun. (Dave had to make it up later.) I took the test and knew quite a bit of the stuff on it. It turned it in and went to tell Dave the news. The next week we both went to the stats class. I just had to see how I did. I made a 74 on the test. Not such a great grade, but it was the highest grade in the class. I...

I've been using Dave's iPod when I run and it really makes the time pass faster. Today, Dave took both children when he took Matt to school. I ran while they were out. I walked for aobut 5 minutes to get warmed up. I have a path of 2 square blocks that I ran around. I walked the length of one block and then ran the length of another. I went back and forth like that for about 10 or 12 times. After I was absolutely exhausted from running and felt like I could not bring myself to run another cycle, I walked. The last five minutes I moseyed and it felt good to do so. I think I'm progressing well. I'll probably stick with this plan for a week or so before I try to add too much more running. I'm afraid I'll get burned out if I push too hard. Since I've never run seriously before, I don't want to hurt myself. It's turning out to be more fun than I thought. I'm still sticking to my goal of 5K in 20-25 minutes.