More training needed.

Well, it's two months till the Sporting Life... I've been putting in good miles over the past few months, but I have a feeling that I'm not ready for race no. 1 in May. My last two races were half marathons and I'm not sure I can do the 10K in 41 minutes... I think i'll be best suited to run a fast race in the late summer, when i'll have real marathon training under way. Oh yeah, there's a matter of excess winter weight that I put on since the October half marathon. Think my spring will be spent getting back to a better training weight.

Oh well. Today, I did 5K, much of it at tempo or higher. Funny, but i'm a 10K run away from matching last week's total, so this will be a good week.

This Thursday to Sunday has temperatures pegged at 11 degrees! The bad news: Rain.

Shaking off sleep

Worked Oscar night and only got to bed at 4:30.. up again at 8, then slept from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ugh.. I really really wanted to just stay in bed, but I really talked myself into running since I had a weekday off. Did a brisk run to Cherry beach and back, 10K.

We got off easy...

I haven't written off winter, but wow, where did it go. Barely had any snow, it wasn't all that cold and now we're into March and today was sunny, plus 3 and the perfect day for a long run. Well, I did 10K and plan to do a good run tomorrow.

Not a whole lot better

10K to Cherry Beach and back. Very windy, but a sunny day, and it's a pleasure to have a run in the sun when all I get during the weekdays are night runs. So, I cap off another so-so running week. Too many days off, and overall not a lot of mileage. I'm two months away from my first race (Sporting Life 10K) and the week after that comes the half-marathon. Yikes.

Weekly total: 35K
Year to date: 371.5K

Quick...

5K run in the city..... Yep, nothing more to say than that.