New Year's Eve

Well . . . another year is coming to a close. 2007 is running out of hours quickly and here I sit, writing a short little blog entry about the year. 2008 is sure to be a great year and I'm looking forward to it!

I ran a bit today, nothing much, but it felt good to get outside. It really feels as though the last few days have been counterproductive on the losing weight, running front BUT on the other hand, they have been great on the relaxing, doing very little productive front. I need the relaxation. The next two months at work will be very busy and I'm sure that I will be grateful for this relaxation come February 15th.

In any case, I'm about to enter the year in which I'll run the marathon and I'm looking forward to it! In a way, my YEAR OF THE MARATHON is really being beginning now!

Have a safe and happy new year!!

Christmas

Another holiday day and another run. I ran another 25 minutes today and though I've been eating alot of food and drinking lots of good wine, I'm glad that I'm getting some runs in. Not much to report, but I need to keep checking in.

Hopefully I'll keep getting good runs in.

Christmas Eve - FINALLY!!

Well, I'm on vacation! Finally! and I ran today . . . FINALLY!!! My last run prior to my run today was on Thanksgiving . . . pathetic. But today I ran for 25 minutes and got almost 3 miles in. Not too bad. It was cold! I'm in Atlanta and I thought that I didn't need to bring cold weather running gear like my hat or gloves or pants. So despite the fact that I just got some very nice, reflective cold weather running pants for Christmas (thanks mom!) I didn't bring them b/c I thought Atlanta would be warm! Well . . . this morning at 8am when I went running it was quite chilly. I was ok in shorts and my fleece jacket, but it was colder than I had imagined it would be . . . oh well.

On another note, vacation has come and I didn't even know that today was a Monday. I know that I've really let go and allowed myself to relax when I can forget what day of the week it is! I'm going to really enjoy spending time with family and enjoying the holidays before I go back to work and have a very busy January.

Today is Christmas Eve, so Merry Christmas everyone! and Happy running!

Brief Hiatus - Back in Action

Well . . . It's been a LONG time since I've written in the blog . . . almost a month. I've been super busy at work lately and so haven't been running in a long time. But today I was writing in my food journal (where I record everything that I eat) and I realized that I'm coming up on day 50 of my YEAR! I haven't run in a month which means that I'm severely behind schedule.

In looking that the NYRR calendar, I see that the first half marathon of the Grand Prix is in January, on the 27th. This means that I need to get into serious shape, seriously fast! I had made it a goal to run the NYC Half-Marathon Grand Prix this year and I'm not sure I'm ready to give that goal up yet. The problem is, now I only have a little over a month to train for a 13.1 mile race. I'm not sure that I'm up for it, but I can sure try. The other problem is that January is going to be my busiest month of work yet . . . It's going to be very hard to keep up a regular running schedule in January, but I think that that will be the time that I need the running the most, when work is hard and stressful.

In any case, I have a nice vacation right now until January second during which I can really get some good running in and I hope that by the time I go back to work, I'll be back into decent shape and can start getting some longer runs into my routine . . . we'll see.

Happy Holidays everyone!!!