3/31 or so.

Coldest run ever?? I was really cold.

AGT=Asics Gel Trabuco

PT exercises

Core workout

Thought about getting up to run this morning but decided that if I worked tonight, I'd allow myself to run during preschool tomorrow.

Roughly 3 miles/35 minutes.

Ran with Dana for the first time in months--she hasn't been running, so we went slowish.

Shoveled the back yard sidewalks this afternoon. :)

An inauspicious start

So my old training journal ran out of space. My last entry was Sunday. To summarize, I wrote that I didn't know where winter marathon training was going, as the weather has been really harsh and the last two (of four) group runs have been canceled. Running at the gym is unappealing and inconvenient, to say nothing of the time it would take away from work, so it hasn't happened more than a time or two. Between that and a December that included two bad colds, food poisoning, and the holidays, I'm just not prepared to keep up. So I guess I think I'm going to blow off this weekend's 10-miler, and go back the next week, which will be a step-back (7). After that I don't know. Half-marathon training starts 2/28, and I could just go and be really prepared, or maybe keep running longer beyond the group. I don't know what I want to do this year, race-wise. I know I want to do at least a few half-marathons. Maybe I'll slowly ramp up for a fall marathon. Not sure.

Today, since I need every workout (however lame), my cross-training was walking around the Garfield Park Conservatory with the boys.

My Runner's World Training Journal is running out of pages. It was something I never would have bought, but it came with my winter half-marathon training last year, and I ended up liking it more than I expected to. Before I had it, I used to note my mileage (and little else about a workout) in my planner. The planner has now gone the way of the dinosaur in favor of iCal, and it doesn't seem to make sense to continue a running log on paper. So here I am. I still have a couple of weeks left in my book, so I'm going to try to set up a template and start logging my runs here.