Starting Fresh

I'm trying to figure out what the next step is going to be. I'm thinking its going to be a triathlon and mixing some other races through out the summer. The debate is between a sprint and an Olympic length tri, but just need to do more research.

I started the exercising back today with swimming 1,000 meters (1,600 meters is a mile I believe or at least that's what I use a measurement). I figured I would slow back into things and go for a run in the next few days.

So hear is to getting back into the swing of things.

Toady was the Day

Today was the marathon, and yes I did finish and able to walk. It was a very interesting run, and very long. It was wind in your face from mile 17 until about mile 24. The wind really drains you, but I stuck with my game plan and plowed through. I finished in 4:59 which is 1 minute under my goal of finished over 5 hours. I'm glad I did it and also glad its over. Now I just need to pick a new race and start training all over again.

Last Run, Yikes!

Today was the last run before Sunday's marathon. I forgot how short and quick 2 miles was and its weird to look back and remember how 3 miles seemed so long and thought i was going to die. Now 2 miles is no problem and is just a quick out and back. Here is to Sunday and things go well. I will keep you updated.

Less than 4 days left!

With less than four days until the marathon, tonight was a quick and short 4 mile run. I waited until just a little while ago to go for the run because it was a hot hot day and I wanted to wait until the sun at least went down so it would be less hot.

Short 3 Mile Run

Last night after I got thru watching tv (Biggest Loser to be exact and I'm glad Kristin went home, she was beyond annoying), I went for a short 3 mile run in the neighborhood. It was nice weather and felt great to stretch out the legs. Its hard to believe in less than 4 days I will be running 26.2 miles. SCARY!

Updates

I did this weeks long run of 8 miles last night instead of Sunday. I didn't do much on Sunday except try to regain lost sleep. I met up with Dean Holland for the run and it was pretty good. Nice weather, and a good run.

Its hard to believe that the marathon is this Sunday. Getting pretty nervous with how it is going to go. Fingers-crossed.-zn

It has been a while

I have been a slacker lately about blogging about what has been going on, so I'm going to try to recap this week so far.

Sunday:
This was suppose to be a 20 mile run. I came up a little short because it was raining while I was running. The first half was into the rain, wind, and cold which is not a good combination. After half way thru I had to stop at the house and change into dry socks before continuing. I didn't make is all 20 because I was drained and cold.

Tuesday:
I did Tuesday's run on Wednesday instead because had a program and worked late at work.

Wednesday:
Did Tuesday's 5 mile run on Wednesday. It was an average 5 mile run at night with pretty nice weather.

Thursday:
This leads me to today. Today I did Wednesday's 9 mile run. I wasn't originally going to run because we have had storms all day. I got a break in the weather around 8ish so I braved it and went for the run. I lucked out and got good weather/timing and didn't have anything other than a light drizzle for about 10 minutes. I'm glad I did the run since I was originally going to do it.

Things are about to get even crazier the next couple of days because I have a big concert on Saturday.