I miss my treadmill. It was such a comfortable back up plan on the days I could not make it outside....I had it fixed (temporarily), but have been waiting for new rollers and a belt. It has over 5,000 miles on it. The technician fixed what he could last time and told me I could use it as long as I kept the incline above 3.5 (to austensibly keep the belt away from the rollers). but it still grabs and turns off inexplicably mid-run. I can't wait until the rollers and the belt come in (any day now). Using the track has been ok, but mentally it's worse than the treadmill. Hopefully I can nail 12 tommorrow and average something under a 10 m/m. I'll just feel better overall when 13 comes easily--but I'm not looking forward to the fatigue of those 20+ mile weekend runs. I am however, looking forward to Moab Half--I've never 'raced' it. It's usually the first run of my season-- sort of a kick off 'fun run' that I plan with my sister. She comes with a group of friends from DC to run it (and hike arches, etc). I made pretty good time last year, but I wasn't even trying super hard. It will be interesting how well I can do it this year--it's a month almost to the day before Boston. Hobble Creek was about a month before St. George, and that was a great way to prepare to run fast at SGM. I need to get more speed work & miles in these next two months before I feel mentally prepared to take on the idea of Boston. I've been working toward it, and am doing much better (running a few faster miles during the week/sprints, getting 40 miles/week and getting in my long runs). Better anyway than 3 weeks ago. So there's that. It's a process both mental and physical. | 