Last summer our office began an educational campaign called Choose Health as an effort to promote childhood obesity prevention. I did a lot of the work developing the logo, taglines and promotional pieces...and I guess the messages began to slowly sink in. I started wearing a pedometer around (and realized that chasing a then 3 year old around isn’t really “active”), we began using sandwich plates for dinner plates, bought a treadmill and I started checking serving sizes on everything (drives my girls crazy I’m sure).
My new year’s resolution this year was to run a 5K. Although you may be thinking “no problem”, my 40 year old lungs thought differently. But after several months of training...I ran (along with Jeff, Anna and Cara) in the Tompkins County 4-H Duck Race in April. My goal was to finish the race—and I did it! We ran again in the Millard Fillmore 5K in July. And, Anna is running with the Cross Country middle school team this fall. I’m still trying to get 3 runs in a week...and enjoy running with my dog (sometimes I drag her, sometimes she drags me), and with Jeff on weekends. If you want to feel good about yourself, go ahead and challenge me to a race (5’2” doesn’t equate to “built for speed”)...I don’t mind.
