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An evening of workouts

This evening was a busy one for me. I didn't get up nearly as early as I had hoped, so instead of running earlier in the day, I ran after work. I had a great run of 7.5 miles, things felt good and I felt as if I could go further.

After my run I went to Midway UT (we run right past there near the end of our race) and ice skated on the outdoor rink. It was approximately 0 degrees F (I abbreviate that word as I have no idea how to spell it).

It was a good evening although I'm a bit fatigued--but I'm not sore.

Not to Shabby

So I decided that I need to see if I can run as fast as I need to without the treadmill keeping my pace. I went to the track and decided to run 3 miles. I started out pretty slow and then kept building and building. Of course I was going faster than I normally do because there were people there!! Anyway, I made it a lot quicker than I thought. I was actually just a tad over 10 min. per mile. Now I know some of you will think that is awfully slow, but for me it's quite fast. Especially since I've only been running for a few months. Go MIN!!

So, I was just wondering. How many miles should you put on a pair of running shoes before you should buy some more? I was thinking that with all of the training coming up, I might need some new shoes. I enjoy my New Balance, but wonder if anyone else has had some amazing shoes that I should try.
On a different note. I have days were I dread running. I dread getting my body moving. I always force myself to run and then I really feel good. Am I alone out there with this problem? What is the best solution?

What's the deal?!?!

I have discovered an interesting phenomenon while walking to work over the last week. The only time a car passes me is when there is one going the other direction as well so that they both pass me at the same time. I can't explain it, I don't see very many cars on my walk to work. It is a rather unnerving experience on narrow snow covered roads. To test the frequency of this, yesterday I counted three times that cars passed me, twice out of these three times it was a double pass (one of them was a snow plow--yikes).

I've noticed the same thing while running. Is this just some crazy extrapolation of Murphy's Law or what?

Some days you have it...

...and some days you don't. Today I didn't. I finished off a week of running everyday with a run of 8 miles. The day had been quite hectic and it was a tough run for me. I desperately wanted to be done after 4 miles, but gutted through it and now I'm glad.

Training is in full swing for the WBR, I'm planning only 2 non-Sunday rest days between now and June 21 and on those days I plan to be hiking the Grand Canyon.

Hopefully, we are going to get a few more bloggers from our team posting here as we are beginning to sort out who will be running and who won't be.

I'm here

So it has been a while since I've posted.  Around Thanksgiving time I was having problems with my ITBS again, very frustrating.  I got a band for my knee and it has made all the difference.  I've decided to train a little different now.  I'm going to go harder and longer, but I plan on taking days off to allow for recovery.  I'll be doing some cross training in between, and so far it has been working out pretty well, I've improved more than I ever have before.