Oops. Consistently inconsistent. But I'm volunteering!

Struggling to run most days, but that's ok, cause I ran today, and will have (almost) no excuse not to run over the next 3 days.
5 miles in 39:45

We'...uh oh.
I better wait to post, since the NCAA men's basketball championship is on right now. I don't want people to see me posting and think that I am not watching. I'm not watching, but still.

Running is always better when the weather is cool, breezeless, and the sun is out later in the evening. Ben Franklin, or whoever started this Daylight Saving Time business must have been a distance runner.

Check out the video of Chelsey Sviensson setting the new Texas High School women's 2 mile record of 10:07. (I spent 20 minutes learning about SEO, and I'm a big fan of www.flotrack.org, so I linked appropriately. I think.
In honor of her accomplishment, let's all run a 10:07 2-miler tomorrow.

I volunteered to help pass out fliers (or something like that) for the Bolder Boulder in exchange for a free race entry. Since the price is a lot more than your average 10k race, and the post-race massages are alone worth the entry fee, I figure that it's a good deal. We'll find out.
I'm still not sure what qualifying wave I'll be in for the staggered start. I'll be using my marathon time (ridiculous. A marathon time 7 months ago is a fantastic predictor of your current 10k fitness), but will get put in a wave after my volunteering is done, so who knows how that might look.

forty-eighth and forty ninth

5 miles in 40:00

5miles in 39:15

30 for the week. Very little deviation from the 5 miles/run average.

I am feeling the need to get a race in sometime soon. Maybe a 10k if I can find on in the next month. I might forget about it if things get too busy.

It's probably just cause the Bolder Boulder in 2 days. I won't be running, but it puts racing on the mind.

eighteenth

8 miles. 1:02:50

Another week! It always feels good to make it through. For some reason I have a hard time each week at the beginning, because I just can't believe that I will get the running in. I just have to take it one day and one week at a time. On days when I have a lot of time on my hands, I try and go for a run at the first time that I feel any motivation at all, since I never know if that will be as excited about running as I will get for the rest of the day. It has been working so far.

I am debating running the Bolder Boulder 10k. It's near the end of May and it might be a helpful race to gauge my fitness right before my official block of training starts. I'll probably decide before the end of next week.

If not, I might run my own 10k or 15k "race" and use it to set different training paces until I run an official race this summer.