65 and alive

I'm going to brag about my dad now although he doesn't read my blog (nor does my mom) so he'll never know about it. My dad turned 65 a month or so ago. I think it was last year that he decided he was going to do a 100 mile marathon. Normal marathons are 26 miles so this is a marathon times 4 basically. Why on earth anyone would want to do this is beyond anything I can comprehend but he wants to. And that means he will. He ran his first half-marathon in November and will do his first full one on March 7th in Albany, GA. It has it's own website (www.albanymarathon.com) and is a Boston marathon qualifying race so that's impressive. He actually just did a "practice" one last Saturday and was well under the 7 hour requirement to enter. He says he's going to do 2 more "practices" before the real one in March. I just love that he is doing this because it gives me great hope. He has spent a good part of his life being overweight and yet has managed to find a real way to maintain an excellent weight later on in life. I believe one of the first things he did when he got serious about losing weight was the 10,000 step thing. I like it so I think I'm going to try it. (It's 2pm and I am at 7697 steps.)