Eyewitness News women 'On the Run'...(Diana Williams)

Less than two weeks from now, a group of women here at Eyewitness News will run in the More Magazine Marathon and Half-Marathon in Central Park. The idea came to us at the beginning of the year when 5:30 p.m. Producer Tara Zimmerman received an e-mail from the Road Runners Club about the race.  A half-marathon with all women appealed to her because she thought it would be less intimidating. It appealed to the rest of us because we were all looking for New Years' resolutions that we could actually follow through on, or so we believed.

Our group started out quite large, but slowly dwindled.  As the training got underway, some realized the time commitment was more than they expected and dropped out.  There are now five of us.  Heidi Jones, runner extraordinaire, is our inspiration.  Lisa Colagrossi, also a veteran runner, is training and ready to go.  Lori Schulweis will be with us too.  She is a production coordinator for "Live with Regis and Kelly." You may be familiar with her because she is part of the show's Staff Fitness Challenge.  To read her blog, click here.  So far she's doing great and is psyched for the race.  There's Tara, who ran in high school and has been training vigilantly. And finally, there's me.  I'm no runner, but always up for a challenge and I didn't want last year's training for Kilimanjaro to go to waste.  Once again, Jimmy Lynch, a fitness guru and a gifted muscular therapist,  is helping out.  He's coordinated our schedules, given us stretching exercises and provided endless advice and answers.

During the next two weeks, you'll hear from us about the race.  Right now, an estimated 7,000 women are expected to cross the finish line. We would love to have you out there cheering us on in the park. For More half-marathon information, click here. 

WABC will be sponsoring another half-marathon this summer, so maybe this race will spark your engine and get you running too.  Tomorrow, I'll have more on our training and tell you about the health concern that almost had me on the sidelines.