back on the wagon
admittedly my motivation took a dive with my decision not to run Boston this year. add on an arctic blast of weather and i ended up with a week of no exercise.
i did have the opportunity to volunteer at the inaugural running of the Icebreaker Indoor Marathon at the Pettit Center on saturday. it was great to watch competitors run 95.4 laps around the speedskating track as i knew a handful of the competitors personally. i’d like to run the 2010 event and am hoping the organizers reconsider their stance on headphones as their music selection wasn’t remotely close to what i would consider motivating. regardless, the local newspaper did cover the event and posted an article online called Runners race in circles to finish indoor marathon. a first-person account of the event by Nic was also posted to his blog entitled My ’09 Icebreaker Run.
now, onto my efforts. i got out for a brief 5 mile effort on monday afternoon then another 5 miles this morning with temps hovering around 10 degrees. while i’d like to participate in the badger state games snowshoe race, my two oldest daughters have a piano recital on sunday afternoon. i have found two more snowshoe races in late february that i may be able to participate in. perhaps this weekend i’ll head back out for another training session on the snowshoes.