'Why are we running?' from Lisa

Now that we've been talking about it, Kim and I aren't really sure why we decided to enter the Jingle Bell Run. The entry forms were really eye catching? That might be it. After that we kind of pysched ourselves into it by using the distance tool on google maps to plot out courses to run and researched training plans. I personally spent a chunk of my time looking for awesome training logs (I failed, though, and Kim had to make us a spreadsheet instead).
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now we're 40 days away from the run and we're on the 2nd week of Hal Higdon's training program for novice runners (we made a few modifications).

We're both aware that most people don't have to train for a 5K - but we're not most people and we don't want to have any sort of medical emergencies on race day (or end up walking). Kim's never run a 5K before and I haven't run a 5K since high school cross country, so we'll follow Hal's plan and see what happens.

We're also subjecting our co-workers to our training (and at the same time trying to strong-arm them into participating).

We're got the countdown on the storyboard:

And we're logging our progress for everyone in the office to see:

This week's training plan:
Monday - 2 miles --> both Kim and I successfully completed!
Tuesday - Rest or Run/Walk
Wednesday - 1.5 miles
Thursday - Rest or Run/Walk
Friday - 2 miles
Saturday - Rest day
Sunday - 30 to 60 minute walk

--Lisa