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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

So its January and that means its time for me to start running again.  The goal this year is to run a marathon.  Since I don’t really use my website for anything, I think I’m going to use it to track my progress and training for the run.  It should be exciting.  I’ll try to update a couple of times a week (at first I’m thinking after every run, but I’m not sure I’m willing to commit to that yet) to let everyone know how I’m doing.