Can't I just shave my head and join a convent instead?

Well today is XT day (Thank God!) Since I lift weights, today and Sundays are easy days for me. Monday night I ran around Madison Central's track in complete darkness since I couldn't get out of work until after 7pm. Now I'm a big guy, but there's something a little scary about being all alone on a dark track in an empty stadium. The only thing you hear besides your I-pod is your heart beating and your mouth breathing. (Is that someone sitting in the bleachers.....?)
Anyway, I did thirty-five minutes. I ran 1.5 miles very slowly (most people could walk faster I suppose....) and then I walked the other 1/2 mile.

Last night, the track was being used. MadisonCentral girls were playing soccer against Starkville (the nerve!) I wondered if they would mind some big fat guy trudging around the track while they played, but I decided not to push the envelope. So my son and I went back to the neighborhood for a walk-jog for forty minutes. We made 2.5 miles! We would walk to a mailbox and then run to the next. Walk to the next, and then run to the next. You get the idea. It was amazing how much sweat one person could have for being out in 4o degree weather. My son was walking faster than I was running, but he's fourteen, very pliable, and at the age where he thinks he knows everything, but that's a whole nother story. I'm forty, stiff as a board, and feeling every wrinkle develop on my face.....every hair turn gray and leave my head......every skin cell start to look like onion skin on my hands. But I don't want to complain. God has blessed me beyond measure in the fact that I can actually get out and do this when so many can't. (Phil. 4:13)

Today, my legs feel like concrete, so that's why I'm glad it's my upper body workout day. The only thing I ask is that you say a prayer for my knees. They are starting to bark at me again. I may have to walk more than run for a while until I get them to behave! Anybody in Madison that runs after work is more than welcome to run with me at the high school track if its not in use. Just look for the big guy with a reddish goa-tee on Saturday standing around looking like he has no idea what he's doing!! :)

One small step for man......

Well, here we go! I'm new to "blogging" and new to marathons. I guess you have to start somewhere, or how about, 'you're never to old to stop learning' or some other well used cliche like that.

My name is Kelvin Jones and I am the 7am-3:30pm RN at Nissan in Canton. Thus, my title is 'nissannurse'. Very original, huh? (ha!) When I turned forty this past September, I thought about making some life changes (like most people do when they turn forty...) and so I started running. I have always said that I couldn't run because of too many old football injuries to my knees and on the first day, I thought my knees would revolt (as well as my lungs!). But the more I worked up to a mile, the less my knees hurt. Imagine that! No more excuses!

So, to make a long story short, I run a mile on M, T, TH, and F. I have been feeling so good, that I decided my New Year's resolution was to run a 5k this year. Little did I know that I would later decide to 'step it up a notch' and thus, nissannurse of the marathon makeover has evolved. Currently, I am 6'2" and come in at a very trim 290lbs. (very trim, indeed....HA!) One of my main goals is drop some poundages of course, all the while building self confidence of undiscovered levels.

As this is my first 'blog', all I can say is......stay tuned. This could get very interesting!!