For anyone who has been following the blog for awhile, I have kind of been lax with my writings recently. This is due to the fact that i’m not actually training for anything right now, and also that I’ve been terribly busy. I’m doing pretty good in staying in shape for the most part by hitting the gym 6 days a week, with lighter workouts and some cross-training. I know my aerobic ability is slipping a bit, but thats okay because we’ll make it up in the spring. My big concern is putting on weight … we have 3 weeks until the holiday season is over, I hope I can make it through. I’m still eating fairly good and believe i’m keeping my weight off for the most part, but we’ll have to see.

So I’ve laid the plan for the spring racing season, I’m not sure i’ll be able to do the Chilly Cheeks in January since I accepted another teaching position that will have a class that Saturday. But thats ok, because I intend to start trail running without having to hit that race … so the plan for the spring is to do the NJ Marathon on the first weekend of May, then do the Gods Country marathon (a challenge) the first week of June, then do my first Ultramarathon at the end of June in the Finger Lakes in New York … the ultramarathon is only a 50K (yeah, only), which is equivalent to 31 miles, so its just up from the 26.2 that i’m used of, but an added challenge. Now, depending on how that goes, maybe we’ll try the 50 miler later in the year, I guess it will all depend really.

I am enjoying the non-training time while I can, and in some way I don’t miss getting up at 4am or 5am to go out and run 12 miles before I teach a class on the weekend, or before I goto work. I do miss being able to eat WHATEVER I want, anyone else that runs marathons know how good that gets when you just eat and eat and eat and never have to worry. Well, we’ll be back in training before you know it….

I’ll try to update more often like I always say, but there just isn’t a lot of excitement in the schedule right now. If something earth-shattering happens, I’ll be sure to update!