Two Week Update

Wow has it been a while! Almost two weeks since my last update...

I know I suck at this whole update thing, I've just been really busy lately. I just got back from a weeklong trip to Newport News, VA. Now I'm getting ready to spend two weeks in Dallas. All of this travel makes it hard to get my miles in, but I've mostly kept up with it. Last weekend I did 12 and 8, this weekend 14 and 8. Last Thursday I did 6 miles in 49 minutes, my best time in about 3 years! Granted it was on a treadmill, but that's about the best you can do while TDY. Today I did 8 miles in 1:13. This normally isn't that newsworthy, but in late December I did 7 miles in 1:13. I like to know that my speed is improving even when I'm not actively working on it.

This upcoming week in Dallas will be tough to get miles in. I hate running on treadmills, but thats all I can do before or after work when its dark in a city I'm not familiar with. Over the weekend I have a 16 miler and then a 10 miler. I don't know how I'll manage on a treadmill, but I guess I'll just have to get my iPod and zone out for close to 4 hours this weekend...

I'm thinking about doing a 100 mile race in October, the Heartland 100. I'm going to ultimately decide after I do some much longer runs, but hopefully by the time April rolls around, I'll be able to see how well I recover after longer runs and races.

Thats the news for now. I'll try not to be too busy this week to provide another update or two...