Update on the Wellmans :)

I'm at the beach this week, which equals lots of time in sun and lots of free time!! Thus, here's an update on the Wellmans!! Hopefully this will catch everyone (well i hope there's just one of you! haha!)up on our life and the many changes that have occurred and will be occurring soon!

This fall has been unexpectedly changing and busy within the Wellman household! We've made our first move as a married couple (and pretty much my first move ever!), along with ending and starting new jobs and ministry. After a year of working with the middle school ministry at Living Hope, we knew that the time had come for us to move on. It's just crazy to think how when we started this just a year ago, these middle school students seemed so distant and awkward, but now, we've truly come to love the middle schoolers at Living Hope. We're so thankful for this past year at Living Hope but also for the church family that Living Hope has and will always be to us.

Ross started his new job at FBC Owensboro mid-September and a week later, we officially moved to Owensboro. Ross has taken an interim position for the middle school and high school at FBC... I've come to see him as a professional interim. :) We're slowing adjusting to this move. For this born and bred Bowling Green girl, Owensboro is just different. But it's growing on me! I have been acquainted with the new church and I'm already realizing that this is what the Lord desired for us. We've gotten to know our youth and had lots of fun at a retreat with our middle school students last weekend. We're living in a quaint part of town, with a great location. I was hesitant about our new apartment at first as it is pretty old (like built in the 40's!), but as we've worked to make it our place, it is great! (Pictures to come!). My number one question in Owensboro is what I'm doing with all my time... well, I'm having no problem keeping myself busy between driving back and forth from BG for orchestra, giving harp lessons, and finishing up some responsibilities with my job. But as for long term, I'm planning on substitute teaching for the short time we'll be in Owensboro.


As most of you know, Ross and I have spent the last year applying to move overseas to be language and culture students, among other things. It's been an intense process, with lots of applications and interviews, as well as lots of prayer in determining if this is indeed what the Lord wants for us right now. We have a big step in this process coming up this month. We will head to Virginia for a week to have our final interview and receive information about what our lives will soon be! We would really appreciate your prayers during this week (Oct. 19-24), that we would be nerve free and open to the Lord's leading in our lives. Also, that if the Lord wills it, that this interview would lead to a move for training in April and overseas in July, as we have planned.

So there you have it... an update that will hopefully lead to more blog posts! :)

I'M BACK... and still running!

The fact remains...I'm a horrible blogger! Last time I blogged, I was just finishing Week 3 of Couch to 5k. Since then, I've lost a bit of my momentum as my work hours have increased in addition to preparing to move! My days and nights have been jammed packed with work, church, quality time with friends and family,back and forth trips to Owensboro and packing!
So confession time... I missed a few workouts over the past couple weeks. Those missed workouts put me even further behind as I felt that I need to repeat some trainings to get back to where I was. As of now, I'm one workout shy of being on Week 6. That one workout is the 2 mile run (no walking, mind you!). So I'm repeating Week 5 so I will survive the 2 mile run without my lungs exploding. (All of you real runners out there... give me grace, I'm out of shape!)
I attribute part of my slacking to shin splints (I know... excuses, excuses). I realized a few weeks ago that I only got shin splints when I did long runs two days in a row... so I have been trying to avoid back to back C25K workouts.

All that to say... I haven't fallen off the running wagon yet!! And I'm still alive!

1/3 of the way done!

I made it through week 3! I have to admit that this blog is getting kind of boring, cause there is really nothing more to say than I finished a week of training. BUT, I do have to say, I am enjoying running more and more. I'm not huffing and puffing as much as I stride around the neighborhood and it's becoming a time to think about the Lord and life, rather than about running. It did occur to me as I looked to my next week of training, that in 2 short weeks, I am supposed to be running 2 miles, non-stop with no walking! That might not seem like a big deal, but ladies and gents... that is HUGE for me. I sometimes doubt that I will really be able to do it, but each week I realize that as I am faithful to get my body in shape, that God has been faithful to give me a body that is able to do so much more than what I expect. It is the Lord that sustains my every breath and it is such a blessing to remember that as I run.

Until next week...

Week 2-DONE!

Just a short post saying that I have not fallen off the wagon yet! :) I finished Week Two of "Couch to 5k"! This week was a pleasant running week... the workouts were relatively easy and almost enjoyable. However, this next week requires alot more running and alot less walking but I'm determined to keep going and make it to the 5k!

Week One- CHECK!

One week down... 8 to go!

I'm really liking this running plan. I'm so surprised how a little change in my schedule can help me think more about my diet and health. I mean who wants to eat junk food when you've worked so hard to burn it off! And the running pays off on the scale as well... I lost 3 lbs this week (which is probably due to producing large amounts of sweat on Saturdays run... whew! it was hot!).

In other news, this weekend was Ross and I's 1st Anniversary! We had alot going on at church, but we managed to get away for a fun afternoon in Nashville... pics to come!

Couch to 5K

I'm a bad blogger.

Let's just get that out of the way.

But in efforts to be a better blogger and a healthier person... I have started the "Couch to 5K" program and want to blog my experiences with it as a sort of accountability!

For those who don't know, the "Couch to 5K" is a 9-week program to train beginner runners to being able to run a 5k through a 3-day/ a week workouts. Growing up in Bowling Green, I've always wanted to run the Medical Center Classic in October. So that's my goal... to be able to run (notice there is no time expectation... I may will be slow!) on October 31st!

I actually started the training on Sunday. During the first week, the schedule is to do a 25 minute workout consisting of a 5 minute warm-up, and then running 60 seconds, followed by a 90 second recovery walk and repeating. Thankfully, this workout was a piece of cake (maybe cake isn't the best word to use as I aim to lose weight!) easy for me!! I found myself wanting to run for longer than 60 seconds, which ended up making the workout 30 minutes. However, I'm not too naive about myself to know that the coming weeks of workouts are going to be much tougher!

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