Felt lousy...did run anyway...

...and now I feel just fine!  I had a sore throat all day today, and was kind of weary.  I decided to do my run anyway, because it was going to be short (25 min) as part of the pre-training.  My sore throat felt better afterward, and I had a lot more energy!  Wow!

My running friend Joe told me that he runs when he is sick, as long as it is from the neck up.  Anything from the neck down (i.e. respiratory, digestive, etc...) he doesn't run.  Sounds like reasonable advice.  Tomorrow I hope to do my 25 min run outside (Sunny, with a high near 25. Wind chill values as low as -5. cold!).

27 degrees and dark - a nice run!

So I got a head lamp, which seems to work fine for letting me run in the dark (yay!).  Now I just have to figure out what to do with the cold.  I ran 17 minutes, walked 3, then ran 16 minutes again.   This was the first run outside since the half-marathon in October.  I feel a little wheezy, but that is probably due to the cold.

However, with the head lamp, I felt a bit like Locutus of Borg...

Another run down, tomorrow is rest day

I really feel it in my legs, the lack of running for several weeks.  However, one of the things that I haven't lost is the knowledge that I can do it.  It is a good thing to sustain me through the tough parts of the run.  I'm taking this by the numbers, in the hope that I won't get injured.  So far so good!  Tonight, 15 minutes run, 5 minutes walk, repeat.  Two more days of this (Saturday and Sunday), and then I notch it up a little next week.

After a long break, I'm back

So I haven't run for weeks, and it has started to get to me.   But I needed a goal too.   So I decided to run another half marathon, because I really didn't want to take the time to train for a marathon, and I thought that a shorter run would not be worth the registration fees, etc...   Then I had to find a race with a reasonable date, so I chose this one:  http://www.rhoderaces.com/ which is on May 2.  It's a tall order to train for a half marathon during the winter, but I didn't know what my summer schedule was, and I didn't want to run in the middle of the summer, and October seemed too far off for a goal, and on and on.  :)

I received the book "The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer", and it has been very good.  I am going to  take things slowly, and will ramp up to running a half by around May 2, about half of the listed marathon training schedule.   I ran my first night tonight, which is part of the pre-training weeks.  15 minutes run, 5 minutes walk, 15 minutes run, 5 minutes walk.  The schedule requires 4 days a week running.  Here is the schedule:

Let the running commence!