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So I seem to have fallen of the face of the earth. I had been pretty good about posting and keeping this up to date, and I still am. Sort of…I say sort of because I have been posting all that I have been running. Which lately has not been much.

It all started way back when on April 12th, it was a Thursday and I had not been feeling that hot. I decided to not run on Friday in anticipation of a long Saturday run. But by Friday night I felt bad and went to sleep around 7pm, and did not wake up Saturday at all. I slept almost straight through till Sunday mid-morning. Wow, I could not believe that and I still felt bad to top it off. I decided to take this as a sign that I needed some rest, my body must have been telling me something.

So I decided to just not run for a while and see how things went, it took me over a week to really feel “good” and I said that I would not run till a few days after I felt good at least. So that one planned day off turned into 2.5 weeks and I actually feel good. I have said before that I run for fun so it is really ok. Not a big deal, except that I really missed it mentally.

These 2+ weeks have given me a fresh start and I am actually thinking about my October race and have almost decided to go on a training program to really do well. Last year I did the 31 miles in 5 hours and 55 minutes and have decided that this year I would like to cut off 31 minutes from last years time. That is one minute per mile. I know a pretty lofty goal but I think I can do it. Plus I like crazy goals and testing myself, it gives me something to work for and forces me to work harder. Plus if I say it here I feel like I have to do it.

I found a training program that was made for a Ultra Running, its a Hal Higdon plan. I am looking at it and making a few changes to fit my schedule a little better. Its a 24 week program so this is perfect timing for a October 13th race. I am going to try to hold myself to the miles, but I am sure some of them will be cut due to time. I love to run but have a family and some of these weekends would put me at 9 hours of running for just Sat & Sun, something I am not ready to take away from my family time. I also want to incorporate 2 days of biking in each week. See, I started with triathlons before running took over and plan to do an Ironman in October of 2008, still more than a year away but I like to (and think the) cross training will help. Swimming will hold off till after this October, then go back into 3 sports full swing.

So for now stay tuned for more to come on me actually following a training schedule, and yes I will post it here once I have it complete. Enjoy and have fun running.

So a pretty bad month. April had a total of 40.67 miles, worse than March. If I want to hit my goal of 1000 for the year I need to step it up.

So I seem to have disappeared, and I sort of did. With no running for 2.5 weeks it felt like it at least. More on that to come soon.

…at least for me. So I thought I would share it here.

Anyone who may be interested in and/or currently reading any technology related blogs I have some good news to announce. I will now be blogging over on Gadgetell.

Really cool news for me, I love tech and have been a reader of the site for a while. I of course will continue to run and enjoy (almost) every run that I run. I will also not stop writing over here. Just wanted to share some good news.

Another day another run. I love being a runner, I cannot say that enough.

I am going to take Friday off and get in a longer run on Saturday morning. Will try to post that over the weekend or possibly on Monday. Have a great weekend and enjoy!

A little more of a normal run today, a bit slower than what I had wanted to go out at, but it was very humid today. I generally run during my “lunch” break at about 11:30 or so. It felt so wet out today I was sweating just walking to the curb to start the run. Still nice to get out, and just part of what I agree to with living in Florida and running in the middle of the day. Sometimes I may complain but I still love the heat and humidity. Just takes a bit to get used to when it first hits each year.

Lack of time day, so just a short quick kind of fun run.