Obsessed!

It has become increasingly clear that I have become obsessed with two new things in the last couple of weeks.

The first is the newest smartphone from RIM the blackberry bold. My (seemingly endless) two year cell phone contract is up next month and I'm super pumped to switch to AT&T and get my hands on the sweet new blackberry pictured at left. I've been reading all sorts of techno-geek blogs about the bold and how it stacks up to the iphone, etc, and Sara is getting sick of it. I think I wasted 3 or 4 hours on the internet researching the bold (aka BlackBerry 9000).

My other current obsession is running. I have been eating, sleeping, dreaming running lately. It has to do with two major things. First of all I'm increasing my mileage a lot now. Last week I ran 22 miles, and I'm running 24 this week. Couple that with the speed class I'm taking, and the fact that I've been reading my training book every day, I can't get running out of my head. I'm loving it.

Yesterday evening I had my running class and we did a fairly tough 6 mi fartlek workout. Fartlek is where you include short to medium length speed bursts in a normal training run. It was fun but also tough. Then this morning I was up early to get a quick 3 miler in before work. Tomorrow I'm going to run 8 again. I'm really enjoying all th energy that this running is providing and I can't wait to get closer to the big day!!