Happy New Year!

Let's see where this goes, shall we? As a "talking about training for a half-marathon" blog, I'm sure it interested few, if any, people. There'll be more of that, I'm certain: I plan to run at least one more half-marathon and at least one full marathon in 2009. I figure I'll start running more soon, in anticipation of running the Mercer Island Half in the spring, and go from there. Both the Portland and Seattle Marathons look good to me, though Nathan would like to run the Seattle Half with me in 2009.

There are other things to talk about than running, however, and I'll try to do that. Books that I've read, the various experiences of the Spencer clan (DS will be heading to middle school in September; if that's not blog-worthy I don't know what is), and so on.