WOW, I feel like today is the first day that winter has reared its ugly head!  I have a schedule that I am trying to follow in order to get through this marathon, I know it’s cold outside but I was seriously planning on just wearing my typical tights, long sleeve, and ear band.  A mix of snow/rain/wind awfulness put the kabosh on that!  I took off at my typical pace (about 7:40 a mile) and by mile 2 I was already crawling!  Plus how is it that every winter I have like a gazillion pair of gloves but as soon as its over I somehow lose them all and have to go the first month of cold weather running with my hands all balled up in my sleeves… o god my running issues….

So my marathon is literally right around the bend but this week is thanksgiving week!!!! (Yes week, a week dedicated to eating very poorly on my behalf!)  I decided to stay on top of things I would write down exactly what I wanted to run everyday and I am determined to get up and do it!  

Well I was off to a rough start!  Sunday was “Long run sunday”  fellow runners know it well.  I decided it was a grand idea to eat a pretzel dog from wetzels pretzels for lunch as well as a massive diet coke.  13 miles of hell was what the run shaped up to be.  Now my hip is sore and and all I can think about is that tmrw I have to wake up and run 8 X 800 meter intervals… how I long for the days when I was a consistant runner….

Thats Nikki, Mikinzie and I after bulldog invite 08 =)