up and at ’em
i slowly rolled myself from my nice warm bed this morning, geared up and headed out the door. temperatures were in the lower teens with little to no wind. as i ran along a five mile route i did notice that the roads were a bit better than when i ran on sunday – – but still a long way from being truly safe to run on. midway through my run, my gps watch battery quit on me so i didn’t get a time for the effort.
on a positive note, over the past weekend i did find a USB cable to connect my gps watch to my computer so it would charge – – and download the collected data. for awhile i had been charging the watch with a cord that was intended to be used for blackberry’s while in a car, using the cigarette lighter outlet.
regardless, i finished the effort and headed in for a hot shower. without the wind, it was actually fairly comfortable running this morning. i find it amazing what you can adapt to.
speaking of adapting, it appears that we’ll be expecting a new addition to our family in August 2009. (surprise!) soon we’ll have enough kids to field a relay team – – although it’s way too early to know if it’ll be a girls or mixed team.
in an effort to conserve cash, i’ll be skipping the Boston Marathon in 2009. it might be a good thing to skip Boston as i’m still rather gimpy. (i could run down a list of the aches and pains but i’m not really into that.) i’ll likely focus on wisconsin events for 2009, including perhaps a late-spring marathon. candidate marathons would include Green Bay, Cheesehead (Kenosha) and Madison (in order of likelihood). any of the three would give me to late february to get my miles up to a level to justify starting a 12 week marathon training program.