Well friends or people who have randomly come across this blog I am back and ashamed that I have done such a poor job with my posting. Over the summer a running friend of mine said he checked out my blog and I was completely embarrassed when I thought about the last time I had posted. So this will be my third attempt to consistently update this thing.
My running until recently has been erratic. I was fortunate enough to be invited by Brian Gaines to run the MC200 in June and that motivated me to try and get back in shape it also gave me confidence that I could run faster. I think since the ankle sprain I had been holding back worrying that I would injure myself again if I pushed too hard. The truth is that injury had to do with a misstep on a stone in the dark and poor training on my part. Seeing my new running friend mentioned above and MC200 teammate Joe Kolbaba's passion for running and training also was a huge motivation. So I began running again and even planning to step up and run a marathon or the Lakefront 50/50. Sadly neither happened. I don't have any excuse so I will be straight up honest: I got lazy. The alarm went off in the morning and for the first time in my life I reset it for an hour later and choose sleep over running. Once or maybe twice a week I would get out for a run and the farther away I got from my original fitness level the more I realized how cranky I was becoming and how I missed and needed to get out and run.
Fast forward to the present, a couple of weeks back we were at a wedding sitting with a couple we have known for a very long time. The wife (Cory) runs seven days a week and has a very high fitness level. She has also wanted to run half marathons and a full but needed that nudge so I gave it to her. A couple of days after the wedding I invited Cory to run the March Madness Half Marathon in Cary on March 15th. It is a challenging hilly course but between signing up for the race (once registration opens December 31st) and knowing someone else is depending on me to run it I have begun dragging my behind out of bed and logging some miles in the cold.
The plan right now is to ease back into a four day a week running schedule plus one day a week doing speed work indoors on the treadmill. I've got a ways to go but I have a goal, the drive and a refresher on why I love this sport so much.
4 miles in 32:16
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