Freezing in Dublin

Just finished a 6 miler with a friend from work in the freezing Dublin weather. We ran a good mile or so along the wet sand on the beach where the tide had gone out, and roughly another 2 miles down a paved trail along the ocean as well. Overall I would say it was a great run. I won't be able to run for almost a week because I should be in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. I'd say it may be worth it to miss a few days. Hopefully I can get in a long run on Tuesday when I am back. Hope everyone has a great Easter and Conference weekend!

Access to posting on the blog

So i did a little research and it looks like I have to invite you for you to be an official "author". If anyone would like to contribute let me know and I will make sure to invite you if I haven't already. After that, everyone should be able to share their running status, goals, or haikus!

As for me I came to the conclusion today that saturdays are not the best day to do long runs. Although I often have the most time on saturday, at least 1 - 2 times a month something comes up that takes the whole day and i miss the long run altogether. From now on my running week begins on Wednesday with Monday scheduled in for long runs! Hope it works better when I travel and have other fun things to do on the weekend that are less conducive to running.

Running Inspiration

In the last few days I have heard all sorts of running and fitness accomplishments from family and friends. Whenever I hear of my family and friends running it motvates me to run more. During a long run today I was thinking about all the running that people I know have been doing. Whether it was Sherstin texting me about a 14 miler, my mom mentioning her runs for the week, a new friend announcing that she is running the London Marathon, or facebook updates from Adam and Bonnie about their ironman training I am inspired to run more! While I was running along an old stone causeway out to a lighthouse in Dublin Bay I decided it would be cool to have some sort of a blog where I could talk about my running, and hopefully other people would also make posts about their recent runs, successes, and future plans. After I had the possibly brilliant idea, I decided I need to train for more marathons and increased my planned 9 mile run to a slightly better 12.5.
Well - that is my running update for today (Saturday March 27, 2010). I finished a 23 mile week, which is the best I have had in a while and hopefully will sign up for a marathon or two in the late spring and summer.

Jason