Very cool this morning only 3 degrees so of course I dressed in a couple layers. Very uneventful run. Roads were slick and covered so I didn't push anything. I couldn't sleep last night probably, because I had to go back to work for the first day from my 12 day vacation. I probably only got two hours of sleep. The run was harder than it should have been on a hilly route. I also ate too much food yesterday and it bothered me all night. I've consumed a lot of food over the holiday, and have gotten away from eating a strict diet each day. But that's what the holidays are for to have fun with your family and eat wonderful foods. There's more things to life than focusing on running, and I like to keep it that way.
Totals for this morning 8.5 miles in an overall 6:54 pace in 59:03 minutes. Lunch: Ran 4.6 miles on the Treadmill at home. Ran the first two barely under 7 minute miles ran the next mile at 6:30 and the last mile 5.56. I watched ESPN and all the disappointing news about how the bowl games were boring to watch because of the one-sided scores. An understanding note. I got a call from our local newspaper, because they wanted to do a story on trying to stay fit for the new year. The writer wanted to emphasis the story on running and training for marathon's and shorter races, and they wanted my advice and opinion on how to train, and what goals to set. I mentioned that the best training advice I got was from "fast.runningblog.com", that we have an excellent list of runner's who give advice to the Novice and Advanced runner. This is going to come out in the January 12th's newspaper. I'm hoping our web site name is advertised through this article.
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