I wrote 10 days ago about hating this weather, and I continue my hatred for it. I’ve had a rough 10 days running, not really getting anything longer than 5 or so miles in, mainly due to the weather (and some work as well). I took off yesterday and today due to the brutal cold weather, its just too cold to be outside, but hopefully we’ll get back on track tomorrow.

It is seriously time to get serious though, because i’m putting on weight like you can’t believe. I had to make the switch from my ‘thin’ pants, to my ‘larger’ pants a few weeks back, and now they are starting to get tight. Its getting scary! So today I made a commitment to get serious, and started crosstraining by getting back to jumproping, which kicked my butt and started back with the weights. I’ll probably be sore as hell tomorrow, but I need to get the burn in order to get motivated. I’ll probably register for races tomorrow, thats the other motivator, I hope.

I did head out to my local running store (it is local now), called the Finish Line down here in the Lehigh Valley. What a great place! I changed shoes since the New Balances didn’t seem so popular, the girl that helped me went through and evaluated my feet, tried me with a few different brands, and I ended up going with Mizuno’s .. it was funny that the girl told me that once I move to them, i’ll never go back to anything else. It really was a great shoe, very light and seemed very comfortable. They even let me take a jog down the alley to ensure they worked while running, well we’ll try them out tomorrow. The exact style was Mizuno Wave Inspire 5 ..

I’m looking into joining the local runners club and getting into smaller races just to get back in the groove… I just hope the weather breaks soon and it doesn’t stay so cold. I don’t mind it cold, but frigidly cold is another story. We’ll see how we do.