count down to my year & New Bed 1/2 marathon

ran 3 yesterday, comming to terms with the grim fact that my long run this week will most certainly be in the rain.

i have just enough time to gear up for this 1/2 marathon...very small margin for error.

sighs.

blog/run crisis

proving once again, how terrible at consistency I can be.
I've been paddling about, 3-4 little runs a week...

long run scheduled for Valentine's day...see if i can't squeak in 10.

Then...I need to reorient...points...yadda yadda...

It's hard to accept the fact that for me, weight is a seasonal occurance....this "thing" I do, cannot be good for my heart... but it's better than not fighting at all.

Taking a good long look at why, in the late afternoons- wheat thins are the most appealling anti-anxiety tool I have...harkens back to childhood- comming home to an empty house....(single working mother) and entertaining myself with crackers, cheese and basic cable.

I had a relatively happy childhood- but this particular relic sticks out in my mind these days...

I'm not a latch-key kid anymore...or am I? Is there an equivalent of a self-imposed latch-key adulthood?

Sure running helps allay that particular anxiety and fictive isolation...but sometimes the compulsion to carbo-nest far outways my ability to slap on my tights.

So today, I'll rest...and to the wolves tomorrow.

Happy V day.

back from VT

After what can only be described as a"cruntching" my achilles on a 5er before VT...i returned to Boston having Lay'd low in the mountains, with eliptical nonsense. Today back to gym for free weights and a slow tentative appologetic 5k .


I now dub February "get thy shit together" month

Before VT

Okay, yesterday I ran 5 outside, over snow trails along the reservoir, and botched up my Achilles, the slipped on black ice took a digger on my knee *awesome*...so I'm taking today off.

Yesterday I ran 5 on TM, and did FB weights.

Gotta finish up my packing, hope Vermont is filled with runs.


Ever decision will bring you a step closer, or a step away from what you want.

New week

Yesterday did FB weights, and an 3 on TM 1 sprint, 1 hills

TM is killing me...but there was no running in the snow last night. I may have to rent out snowshoes for Vermont.

Thought a lot about Mt Washington this morning...wondering what it would be like to train for that road race. I'm gonna go with"nauseating"



Goals for week

2FB weights
4 runs
20 miles
yoga
points 4 days

Just gotta get through January...and February

Last day of the year

Yesterday I ran 6 miles, one hard uphill thing. Today I ran 6 outside and halfway though the snow came, lovely. The other runners I saw exchanged knowing looks...and an old Russian man said in a thick accent "good for you" as I approached summit road. Sometimes the universe is nice. Have to cook some cupcakes for a part tonight, and not eat all of them. all. of. them.

I hope tomorrow the streets are alright to run...cause the gym is a pain to get to from home.

Happy Last Day.

Day one...so mixed

Ran 5, Indoors...miserable. one of which was a horrific stair experience. Wow. I'm gonna hurt tomorrow. Also did weights. Lots of them.

Then went back to work, (in what I thought was a cute baby doll sweater...) wherein an older gentleman asked when the baby was due. I said I was gang raped by a dozen donuts thank you very much I don't know the exact date...i just know I woke up and there were sprinkles everywhere...

Shheeeeesh...great segway into weight and running eh?

The way I see it...To run this thing with any grace, I need to off a solid 40 lbs. Totally doable. I hear bulimia's making a comeback. Nah...I'm going the points route.

Day one eventful. I think I should keep my eye on a lesser Ultra...say a 32 miler in case I've bitten off more than I can chew...who am I kidding, there is no "more than I can chew"....