Officially in Training

I guess you could say I am officially in training. I am registered for the Fox Cities Marathon (in Wisconsin) on September 23. That's about five months away, so I've got plenty of time to build up my mileage. In fact, I don't want to do to much too soon because I don't want to get burnt out and injured.

My running buddy Jessica and I are doing the Sturgis Falls Half Marathon (here in Cedar Falls) on June 26. We've been doing a long run together each weekend. We talk the whole time and it goes really fast. Yesterday we did 7.5 miles. Despite drinking on Friday night and less than stellar weather, I felt pretty good. Today's weather was sub-par as well, but I got out to do 6 miles a while ago.

Starting this week, my job will be a bit more flexible, so I am hoping to get a few more weekly runs in (I've only been running about 3-4 times a week). The weather will also start to cooperate more and more, which will be fantastic. To be honest, I don't mind when it's a little cooler. It's the wind in the spring that can sometimes be annoying. I've been running mostly on the weekends and minimally during the week. This week I will start to focus more on running Monday-Friday. I should add that I've been teaching five aerobics classes each week. Just because of that time commitment, I haven't been running very much during the work week.

On a related note (sort of), we are lucky to live in a place where we have a great trail system. I know I've said this before, but I am saying it again because Jessica and I went for a run yesterday that took us on a loop around Big Woods Lake. I've lived here almost six years and trained for several half marathons, but I had never been on this part of the trails before. I looked at the map of the trails the other day and realized there are a lot of parts of the trail that I have never explored.

That's all for now! Have a great week!