Running in the Rockies

My garmin is really acting weird! It said that my run today was 3.8 miles, when I know it was closer to 3.1. Plus, I'm sure that my average pace was not 8 something, like it was saying. Very odd. Is there someway to fix a garmin that's acting up??

Anyway ... it was a tricky run today because half of it was on ice and snow with hardened footprints. Luckily, I never slipped, though I did throw my arms in the air once I told myself that my ankles were getting a workout by trying to keep me steady on a very uneven sidewalk. ;o)

My mileage is a guesstimate again because I went without the Garmin - but I think it's pretty accurate. I really didn't want to run on ice today, so I ran my trail route twice. It was actually pretty hard to start that second time out - partly because it's uphill again. But I'm glad that I did it. Besides that hard section, it was actually a great run. I'm now able to run without an iPod and survive (hee,hee).

The only thing that's been bugging me this evening is my left heel. About an hour after my run my it started aching to step on it. Hopefully it'll be gone tomorrow. BTW, we've had great weather so far this week - in the 40's and no wind!! I could really get used to running all winter in this weather!

I chickened out on night running this evening and went on the elliptical instead. It was a good workout; it was harder on my legs than my cardio - but that's probably a good thing for cross-training. I also did stetching and push-ups when I got bored of the elliptical. The whole workout was about 45 minutes.

I missed the best opportunity to run while both girls were down for their first nap around 9:00 - not that I knew it at the time! But when I went at 1:30, it was cloudy and windy instead of sunny and calm. At least I got in my run before the snow started! ;o)

I took the garmin today and apparently it's doing better because it read my distance correctly. I tried something new today - I used the "alerts" to tell me when I was running slower than 12:30. Ha! After going uphill for a while, the poor alert was going off all the time as I was getting more and more pooped. My average pace was 11:37.

Well, I only made it out 4 times this week which is a bummer - but on the positive side, they were all over 3 miles! I'm going to have to try to earn those Garmin commando points in a week or two, Brent, because as James (Monaflash) says, that alert thing can be down right irritating! It was back to cold today - good bye to the nice 40 degree highs that we've had this week. It was 27 when I went. I hope Santa gets me some warm running gear. ;o)

It's 3 days till Christmas and I still haven't sent out my Christmas cards. But I can't even send them because I haven't received them in the mail yet. It seems like every January, I tell myself that this year I'm not going to procrastinate taking family pictures ... and then ... October... November... December all fly by and I'm stuck with no professional pictues yet and the Christmas cards are late. Bummer.