Two-Timing...

Yesterday I did finally get in all 6 miles. Actually I did 6.5 miles. I did the extra half mile cause I wasn't able to do all 6 at one time. I ran 3.5 miles on my lunch break at about 1500 hrs. Then I did another 3.2 when got off of work at 2000.

I was running on the treadmill in the workout room at work--which I hate as I hate hell and all Montagues. But the temp was dropping and I didn't bring any cold weather running gear to work. We got about 6 times the amount of snow we were supposed to get overnight. So we ended up with about 4-6 inches instead of the 1 or less they were calling for last night.

I'll probably try to do another 4 today on my lunch break, but I'm not looking forward to it. c'est la vie. Trying to get all the miles in during the cold weather is going to be tough until I get a gym membership and can run on an an indoor track or something. hmmph.

Anyway, groin is feeling better and the pace I was going was about 7.5 min/mile. Hopefully that will translate to a solid pace when I'm outdoors doing longer distances once the weather warms.

Training Begins...Again

So I'm 14 weeks out from a marathon here in CO, and that means it's time for my training to begin, again. I say again, because a move and an injury have postponed my goal of finishing a marathon by several months.

I bought some new shoes from Road Runners in Boulder, which was a great experience. They measure progression, arches, check your gait with video, and make recommendations on insoles and shoes. The next step would be custom insoles, but that's cost prohibitive for me, and the number of insoles available at Road Runners made it just about a custom fit any way.

Eventually, I'll be getting another pair of the same shoe and same insole so I can alternate between the two pairs during training. This way neither pair is past it's prime before the race.

I'm not looking for a Boston qualifying time or anything like that. I just want to run the whole thing and finish it. I've still got a nagging pulled groin, and I can feel it slowing me down a great deal. Today, I ran the mileage for day 2--Though I'm actually on day 3. Yesterday was a little busier than normal, and I didn't get a true lunch break at work which is where I had planned to do my 5 milers.

Also, lingering pain from a pulled groin 4 weeks ago is still slowing me down. today's run took me right at 50 minutes and running over the ice and snow was brutal. Every time my foot slipped, it stressed the injured muscle and though I feel like I didn't re-injure it, I definitely could feel that it didn't want to work the way it normally does. I should be able to do these runs in 40-42 min.

I weighed myself the other day and I've actually got up to 170. I"m lifting a little more, and I can tell my arms are bigger, but the same unfortunately goes for my waist so hopefully by the mid point of my training I'll be back down to about 160.

So that's my goal. I've got 6 miles on the schedule for tomorrow, run a marathon in May, and hopefully lose 10 to 15 lbs of well, lets call it baby sympathy weight.

Hopefully, I'll be writing tomorrow that I did get my 6 miler in and the time for that run.