Ok weekend.

Well Saturday was a great day, got to get outside and run around the lake. It was a nice day, yes I understand it was only 35 degrees out. After the run we ate some Mexican food and headed up north to a wedding. It was kinda cool the ceremony and reception were all at a country club. We spent today relaxing and looking around the outlet mall in Albertville, then watched the US Hockey team lose to America's shabby hat. The weather looks like it will continue to get warmer which excites me, I'll be outside more and more.

Stef joined me at the gym yesterday, I'm pretty sure she went to hard and will hate me this morning. The good news is she's been having trouble sleeping and last night slept like a rock. Yesterday I signed up for the 100% Irish for a day 5k at Lake Harriet on March 13, and the Run the Valley 10k in Golden Valley on April 10. I'm just so excited my employees think I have a screw lose(probably true). Tomorrow I'm going to run The 5 k course twice and get a nice 6.4 miler in. Jeans day at work today, Robin is back, all the big wigs are in, should be fun.

Solid 45 minutes tonight, 10 for warm up on eliptical, 30 minutes decent running on treadmill with a5 minute cooldown. 3.93 miles on a 1% grade, felt great the whole time. I'm getting to the point where I can't wait to run, and it a unhealthy obsession lol. Right now I'm reading 3 books on running, my most visited website is runners world, and I check my mail daily for the new runners world mag. I quess in the long run this is much better than a meth habit so I'll stick with it. :-)

I ran in some underarmor socks today, and it's amazing how less gross your feet are in moisture wicking socks. You have to love Marshalls, 70 dollars worth of socks for 25 bucks, not to mention the 35-50 dollar running shirts for less than ten. Feel so much better without all the sweat keeping me hot and gross. Ran 3 miles at a 10 minute pace today on an incline, it was a killer but felt great when I finished. Cooled down by beating the ever living shit out of Pat 15-0 in racquetball! He only got to serve once and preceded to quit after the first and I quess only game, lol. Tomorrow is an off day, but I do have a stupid all morning meeting in Brooklyn Park. Oh well it's free breakfast and a change. When reading these blogs please understand I know I make a lot of spelling/grammar mistake, I am texting them in from my phone and doing no proof reading.

Tomorrow is 14 weeks away from Madison, start a run heavy workout program. I also need to get to the grocery store and get some pasta(I'll be eating a lot of it this year) and fruits. Went and saw "Shutter Island" last night and was pretty underwhelmed by it, especially afters Stef's bro hyped it up so much. I get my franchise player(lol) Robin back on my line this week, so our amazing team at work will be even better. I'll let ya know soon how the new workouts go, have a great week! :-)

Yesterday was a four mile day, felt pretty good when I was finished. It was the second four mile day in a row, I felt good last night when I went to bed. This morning however my upper shins and quads were angry with me, good thing it is an off day. I now know why recovery days are preached so much. On a professional note Sassy Cassie starts as my new lead teller today, so excited. I also don't have to work open to close so extra bonus. :-)

Had a wonderful Saturday-Sunday with Stef, snow tubing, mystic lake, hotel, lunch, and shopping. Bought some running shorts, all that comes to my mind is "bitch shorts," but who likes chaffing? Stef is going for a run today, hope the bug bites her too(cheap dates). The hawks are in town to destroy the golden goofers tonight. Doing a little pre-meet at my long lost favorite sports bar in stadium village (stub & herbs). Tomorrow is a three mile day followed up with some core training. Hope everyone had a wonderful valentine's day.

there they are...

Went to the running room, had there guy there run me around the store like a show pony and that's what he came up with! They feel great, light, cushy, and sexy of course. Notices after mile two today my stride started shorting and that made my left knee tight. Good to know for the future.

Need more water...

Well I did cardio last night after work, and then weight training this morning at 7. I'm pretty sure that I dehydrated myself, after 70 oz of water, a glass of OJ, and the milk in my cereal I finally peed. I was feeling pretty dizzy and only weighed 186 after the workout. I had better start paying attention to water consumption because hydration is the key to finishing all my goals.

All right trying my first text update. Went to this pasta place next to the fifth st towers for lunch. Got a spinach lasagna, 7 dollars gives you enough of the best lasagna ever to last two days. Added some red sauce onto the white man oh man I was in heaven.

First Blog

Well I technically don't start my training until March 22, but I was highly motivated to set this up after signing up for the Madison 1/2 Marathon. Hopefully you'll forward this to emails of people you and I both know, and then people will be able to encouage me. I will not just talk about my training, I will also offer my own little insights to life. Hopefully you enjoy...