Dare to be great!

Well the honeymoon week is over. Enjoyed my week off following the marathon. It was a week of sleeping in and glutony. Now it's time to get back on track. Out the door at 5am, only had 45 minutes to run, kept the pace easy. AP 8:29. Legs are still a bit heavy.

I am planning on building up my mileage this month to average around 70 per week, then add some speed work later.  Hopefully by following Sasha's plan, I can qualify for boston come spring.  Missing it by 9 seconds will haunt me all winter.

Woke up this morning with a slight pain in my shin again. Don't know where that came from as I had no pain on the run yesterday or the marathon last week. Decided to take it easy during the morning run. Went with the kids as they rode their bikes to school then continued on my 5k loop around my neighborhood.

PM: Decided to go to my old standby, Liberty Park, in the wood chips.  Went with John, calf was a bit tight.  It was so nice out, cool, the leaves were blowing, it was a really fun run.  Didn't want to push the pace at all averaged 7:49 for both laps.  Just a good day to be a runner.  Can't wait until I am all healed up and my base is built to really start flying again.

Another day in the mountains. Went all the way to the summit this morning. Power hiked/ran as much as possible on the way up then bushwacked down the mountain as best as I could. Another beautiful day up in God's country.

Well so much for being consistant this week.  I did go on a business trip for the last 2 days but I don't know if I can count walking around the Mall of America as legitimate miles.  Plus it was pouring rain the whole time.  I know excuses...

Went for a nice run this morning.  Went from the house and around Sunrise Meadows and back.  Had some pretty good hills this morning.  AP 7:47  It was probably good for my legs to take off the last 2 days.  I wanted to get a good workout this morning but not injure anything so I got back from the run and got my wife to take the bikes out.  We rode down to the JRP and looped around thanksgiving point then rode back home.  Only rode for 8.35 miles, but it was nice to be out.  Don't know how many sunny warm days we will have.