Recap

In the past month or so, I've gotten up to 14 miles for my long run. I've registered for one sprint distance triathlon which is 2 weeks before my marathon and also joined a triathlon class at my gym. I am considering attempting a half ironman triathlon in August. Finally, I'm aiming for Ironman Florida in 2008.

Tomorrow, 15 miles.

Its been a while

I haven't posted updates in a while, but I've been running. I'm in week 3 of my training. Today I ran 7 miles. I am getting faster, my average time today was 7:42 per mile. That is better, but I need to be faster than that. I have a 13 mile run coming up on Saturday. This will be the second longest distance I've ever run, after the half marathon which was 13.1 miles. I'm actually pumped to run it.

2 weeks from Saturday I will run 14 miles, which will be the longest I've ever done. Bring it on.

9 miles

I got a 9 mile run in today. This made my legs incredibly sore. I was also running slower that I would have liked to, but I need to build my speed back up to where I was at last August. That will take some time.

The fact that I went 9 miles and didn't feel too bad is very encouraging for me though.

What a crappy week

In the last week I've had an inflamed throat, pink eye, a cold, and an ear infection. I'm about 90% recovered (the ear infection is still lingering), and thats good enough for me. I have run the past 2 days in the gym on a treadmill because I didn't want to run outside when it is really cold.

It seems that today I'm being given an early birthday gift. It is going to be 30 degrees outside. I am definitely running outside in that. I just gotta go to work for a bit first and finish up some stuff.

Hopefully after nearly a week off I can get back to form quickly.

The running sickness

Ok, so I went for my run on Thursday and made it two miles. It was pretty cold out so thats as far as I went. Later that evening I just started to feel like crap again. I woke up Friday morning feeling like I had the worst cold of my life. The cold, dry air irritated my throat and made it swell up.

I felt better and better as the day wore on yesterday, but it is now Saturday and I am still not completely better. The swelling is gone for the most part, but now I have a bunch of mucus, just like if I had a cold, except that it is all in my throat. My nose is fine. I'm going to take one more day off and hopefully by tomorrow I will be 100%

The only other bad thing is that it is going to be brutally cold outside until about Wednesday or Thursday this week. I signed up at a gym a few nights ago, so I guess I'll have to go run on the treadmills to at least get some mileage in. I may go lift weights later today, depending on how I feel. I haven't lifted since probably October or November and I really need to get going on that again.

Ouch

So I went to check out the YMCA yesterday and ran on their indoor track. I HATE running indoors. I finished 1.5 miles and headed out of there. When I got outside, I realized that it was not TOO cold out, so I drove back to my apartment and changed into my running clothes. I ended up getting another 3.7 miles in outside. After that, I was sitting around when all of the sudden I got really tired. I'm thinking that I didn't get enough calories at supper last night. Anyway, I just went to bed at that point and fell asleep instantly.

I'm keeping a running journal to watch my daily and weekly mileage. The journal runs Monday through Sunday. Last week, I put in 12.4 miles. So far this week I have 6.2 miles. I'm headed out for a run now, so hopefully this week I can get at least 15 miles in.

Registered for marathon

I sent my registration in for the marathon on Monday. I just checked online and the check has cleared. So I made it into the race before it filled up. This should provide extra motivation for me, as now I'm registered for the race and I've paid my cash. I will be pushed to train hard because I don't want to back out of something that I've committed to and paid for.