All the New Year's resolution types are getting running fever now and it's becoming the popular thing to talk about 5k's, 10k's and half marathons. It is all nice and cool until I ask these people if they would be interested in running with me. Running solo everyday can get a little mundane. Excuses fly from everywhere as soon as I ask and although I try to reassure them that I don't care how far they can go or how "slow" they will run, I would just enjoy the company. Alas, I will continue on my solo mission ;-)
Two local runners have signed up for RnR Seattle Half so I at least have a couple girls who have invested some money in the race. Hopefully I can get them out training a little more. One of them ran Wenatchee with me last year and we get together at least once every couple weeks. The other ran track at the University of Portland but since having two kids she has not run much since. She was very fast (5min/mile) in college so it would be nice to get her back to some speedy miles and maybe she can help me get faster as well.
No long run for me last week. Still logged 26 miles though as I was taking it a little easy after my first big run the week prior. This monday I'm hoping to knock out my first 16 miler and we'll see how I feel. Finally got some Under Armor spandex so the cold weather mishap I had a few weeks back should be a thing of the past! :-)
Hoping for another solid week and then I head back down to Arizona for another week with the folks and some training in warmer weather :-)
The Luke
I hear you on the solo runs, especially pavement pounding. I find that I enjoy having some alone time in the woods but our Phoenix race showed the benefits of having friends to run with....what a blast. I guess this means you'll just have to move to Raleigh ;)
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