Back on the Dreadmill

"my" treadmill at the office

With pace bunny breathing down my back ;) and Mr. Tom not feeling well I had to drag my stuff with me to work and get on the 'mill during my lunch break today. It was just okay. Maybe tomorrow won't be so bad. I'm getting there with my 25 miles in January goal though. I only have 8 more miles to run so it's all good.

Right now I'm trying to get into a regular running plan by running Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. This week I had the hardest time wanting to get up on Monday and run outside while it was 24 degrees. It's not like we haven't done that before, because we did a couple of weeks ago. I guess I felt especially cold and a little tired too. So this week is a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday then Saturday kind of week.

So, tomorrow I'm back on the treadmill and then a road run on Saturday. I may be running by myself for a few more days :( Which is okay because it kind of makes me want to run a little faster so I can get done and back home as soon as I can. It CAN be a little creepy. I don't know why because I was running by myself for several weeks before Tom was okay'd to run again.

Anyway...my love hate relationship is back on with the treadmill...yaaay.

Slippin' and Slidin'

(google images)

Yeah, so yesterday I posted about running the Salmon Creek trail out and back which put us at 6 miles today. WELL, there were some things that I wanted to accomplish today besides a run so I decided that we should just do a run that starts from our back door instead. It's good that I thought to do that because there were some spots that were a little slippery! I can see it now...I would do one of those fancy moves that you see in the cartoons and somehow do a flip and then land on my head. Okay, maybe not that spectacular, but you get the idea.

Even though the side of the road we were running on was mostly clear and not slick, there was a spot that is near HB Fuller that is in the shade during the winter months and you know, shade breeds icy patches!

To make things even better, at one point as we were heading back home, I decided that it would be fun to cross the street and run on the opposite side of the street where the sidewalks are slickery. Yup, more shade. It made for an interesting last half mile or so of our run. My pace was about a minute slower than my previous outings. I figure I was trying not to fall down, so it's all good.

SO - if the sidewalks and some of the pavement not far from our house were slick could you imagine the SC Trail where a lot of the trail would be shaded. It would be not good.

Enough said!

PS - I'm 5.2 miles into my goal. I'm pretty sure that I'll meet my goal - even in the 80% or 90% rain in the forecast for the coming week. Today was 80%, but it was not to be...I LOVE that 80% means 80% no rain!