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3… 2… 1… REST!

Gotta love any training program that begins on a rest day. I technically start today, but the running doesn’t start until tomorrow. I’m glad that weather from last week is gone, I have a better chance of surviving this now.

I have to figure out some way to post my training schedule so I can refer to it. I will get back to you shortly…

Good day.

With four days to go before my marathon training schedule begins I wanted to get a decent 5 mile run in.  For any of you in the northeast you know it has been extremely cold lately.  Tonight it was -2 degrees with the wind chill.

I felt pretty good for the first 3 miles.  It was kinda like Rocky IV when Rocky was training out in the middle of the snow in Russia.  I felt rad.  After that though, when my eyelashes started freezing together, I starting thinking that it might be a good idea to curl up in a little ball and take a nap for a few minutes in a snow bank.  I didn’t actually do it and made it home in one piece, but it was by far the most miserable run of the year.

DRAGO!!!

4.98 mi, 00:45:56, 9:13 pace