A few friends from Seattle Works have been talking about doing the Vancouver half-marathon next year.  And I've been wanting to do this since I've started running in earnest.  So it is with that in mind, and an eye on my wallet (prices go up January 1st), I just signed up for the Vancouver 2008 marathon.

This will be good.  I now have a race to train for, rather than running half-heartedly the last few months.  At least I got to run a bit during recent travels to China and Barcelona. 

In terms of recent running, my wife and I ran our first "race" together at the Jingle Bell Run the other day.  To call it a race may be generous.  Given the sheer number of people there, it was all we could do to not trip over other people.  Needless to say, it wasn't a fast time for either of us, but we sure had a lot of fun.  It even snowed (the pretty kind, not the wet sloppy kind) a bit during the race.  Running with her made me recall the times we ran together back in college in the summer time.  Before going to work, we'd run a few miles on the quiet streets of Northfield, MN...

Now that I've officially signed up for the Vancouver full, maybe I can convince her to run in the half marathon like she's been thinking :-)