Month: March 2015

A couple solid laps around the neighborhood this morning, continuing my push to get back to higher mileage. There was some fresh snow and a few very uneven areas where some drifts started to melt yesterday and refroze. But other than that winter running conditions were good – not much wind and temperatures were bearable.…

I knew I wanted to get a bit further tonight to start rebuilding some endurance so I started off slower and tried to build up the speed slowly over the run. I started off easy tonight and did the first 10 minutes at 7 mph and then bumped the speed up to 7.2 mph for…

Did not feel like running tonight but forced myself to get on the treadmill anyway by convincing myself I would do a fast 5k and call it. That worked pretty well – once I got the blood flowing I figured I would go to a half hour instead and should be over 4 miles…hit just…

Well – with the Dopey Challenge completed and run well in January, I am finding that my motivation to train is kind of gone. I have always been better at hitting a goal than maintaining. I will be pushing to hit hard in the WPS Half Marathon in early May – so that is a…

So since the Hypothermic Half Marathon last weekend my brain absolutely refuses to run outside…but I am having trouble convincing myself to go long on the treadmill. I used to do runs between 1.5 and 3 hours all the time and was able to keep myself focused…but I seem to have lost that in the…