Wednesday Jan 23, 2008
After some months of driftless, occasional running, I've decided
I needed a goal to motivate my training. I looked at some of
the upcoming local half marathons, but they're too soon for me
to train up in time without a high risk of injury. I decided to
train for the Capitol
10K, which I've run a few times in the past, but stopped
running due to lack of interest. It's such a large race that
fighting the crowd of people who've lined up in the wrong place
takes a good mile, and I got tired of that. But it turns out to
be about ten weeks out, long enough to get back into the groove.
I set up a plan using the Runner's World
Smart Coach tool. I'm hoping this will be motivation enough
to stick with it and build my weekly mileage back up from about
5-10 miles up to 20.
Wednesday Jan 03, 2007
I haven't blogged about running for a while, maybe because it's
just taken up a routine part of my life, not an all consuming
passion like it is when I'm doing marathon training. I'm just
training for a half marathon this winter, and I have to say I
like running fewer miles and not devoting so much time,
particularly on weekends, to running.
Since I decided not to do a marathon this winter, that knocked
me out of even starting the Austin Distance
Challenge right away. So I've only felt compelled to run
one race, the IBM
Uptown Classic 10K back in early October. I contemplated
others, but due to conflicts or just not being interested, I
haven't done any.
I was originally training for the AT&T Austin
Half Marathon on February 18, 2007, but due to yet another
Cub Scout conflict, I'm going to run the 3M Half Marathon on
January 28. I wanted to run both, but I made a vow not to let
my running get in the way of Cub Scouts or family activities
this winter, and have done well with it.
Finally, I was happy to see fellow runner and Sun blogger Scott has taken up
running again. Keep it up Scott!
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