New Years Eve

Back in the day NYE was all about the party. Now it's work outs, saving money on races and dining out with good friends. Change is good! Today was a weight lifting day and a spin class. My 2 favorites. . . NOT . . . but necessary. I'm learning to like them because I am seeing results. Don't we hate to be wrong?! I signed up for my first Triathlon for 2011. I was talking with my friend Meaghan and she wanted to do a tri together. She lives in Michigan. I told her my nephew is getting married in August and I'd look for one nearby. Unbelieveable but I found one right by her house! What are the odds? So we are doing the Sanford & Sun on August 13th. Meg will do the sprint and I will do the Olympic distance. Tri in the morning and wedding in the afternoon. We signed up today and saved $10. Dinner with friends tonight at the Spaghetti Factory. Not bad. Because I'm really watching what I'm eating I checked out ahead of time what to eat. I had the Chicken Penne hold the Alfredo. I actually have never eaten there before, it wasn't bad and was not badly priced. Early night though because we are all so old, no it's because we are such amazing athletes and we need to get to bed early so we can kick some butt tomorrow at the Polar Dash! (more like freeze our butt's off!) HAPPY NEW YEAR

New Year, New Blog!

Happy New Year! With every new year comes a new start or if you will a resolution. My resolution this year is to run a Marathon. Finally, right?! I started running about 5 years ago, on and off again. It has only been within the last year or so that I've wanted to expand my running resume to include new races and new distances. A lot of it is due to the people I've been running with. They don't push me but they challenge me and I've improved enough to believe that I can complete just about any race I try to do. So that's kind of the why, now the how. Well that's the journey. We will find out together how this feat will be accomplished. The physical, the mental, the nutritional, the logistics with having a full time job, the accountability. . . I'm sure I'll think of more! This will also serve as my training log. So let's start now. Today I ran 6 miles at the Plymouth Dome. This is an excellent place during inclement weather. Today was 36 degrees out but raining, so inside. I need to figure out my Garmin because I couldn't tell what my average mileage was but I ran the 6 miles in 1 hour 5 minutes with the fastest mile being 8:34 so average would be just under 11 minute miles. Now off to St. Paul to the packet pick up for the Polar Dash. Starting off the year with a race. Hold on here we go!