Running On

I had a long day of gettting little done at work today after I offered to bring the company truck to the dealer's service center in Westminster, VT (an hour's drive). The plan was simple:
1. Drive truck to shop for service.
2.Bring about 2 to 3 hours of work with me so that I could waite for the truck to be finished.
3.Be back by noon.
I should have just bagged it all early and called for a ride. At 5:30PM my boss picked me up because the truck had to stay for a computer issue. Oh well. Let's talk about running.

It should be a four day running week this week. I managed about 5.5 miles late night on Tuesday.

Tonight after work and a quick bite to eat with the family I headed to the Y for my Thursday night work out. I ran 10.9 miles in 75 minutes. For me this was a really great run. I imagined running the Boston Marathon, which I will do this April (ran it last year for the first time). My imagined run was absolutely wonderful with none of the pain and fatigue of the real thing.

Training is going well. My Thursday night tread mill runs have been fast, solid workouts. My Sunday runs have been done diligently, and this past Sunday's 18 miler had some moments of speed, I have not been in my groove for a long run in this training cycle. Maybe tonight is sign that things are about to turn around.

I am slowing learning how to post pictures to the web, and to this Blog. I still do not understand the process well enough. The picture of me in Holland was supposed to be in my profile. It is close.

I signed up for the Jones Town and Country 10 miler in Amherst. This is a great race that comes on the final Sunday of February. My goal is to finish in 66 minutes. The course is very hilly, and ends with a final two miles of mostly up hill running. Before the Boston Marathon I will run the 10 miler, the New Bedford Half-Marathon, and the Ron Herbert 8 miler. Should be fun.