Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Return to Running

Yesterday was a surprisingly warm sunny November day which made for a perfect chance to return to running outside post-baby and stress fracture. I went out just before sunset and it was in the mid-50s. The run felt great. As expected, I didn't run my usual 7:30/mile pace but I kept the pace under 9:00/mile which I felt good about for a first run in 8 weeks.

Now that I can comfortably run again, my focus is turning to 2 things. 1) Trying to get enough training time without overtaxing my body because of a lack of sleep and 2) Raising $10,000 for Dana-Farber's Marathon Challenge. I'm hoping to find a radio sponsor to track my progress on-air over the coming months (and co-sponsor a large event this spring) and planning on trying to organize a Dana-Farber day in Davis Sq. For Dana-Farber day, I'm going to attempt to persuade various businesses to donate a % of profits from that day's sales to my fundraising effort.

With several hundred team members, their family and friends, these business would likely see an increase in traffic and sales on this day. Last year's team did a great job of showing up for each other's events and I would expect nothing less this year!

Sunday, November 27, 2005

New Arrival Slows Training

My training kick-off has been delayed a bit -- my partner gave birth to our first son on the 17th and I've been living in the world of sleep deprived parent ever since! From a training perspective, I wonder if the dancing and rocking him to sleep count as cross-training??

I have gotten to the gym twice for 1-1 1/2 hour workouts since he was born and am going to take the plunge into training with a newborn at home this week...

Sunday, November 13, 2005

The Training Season Begins...

November is here and with it comes the beginning of training for the 2006 Boston Marathon. This should be a quite an interesting training season -- my partner is set to give birth to our first child at any moment so I'm going balancing 40-60 miles a week of training with school, fundraising for Dana-Farber, and family life. For the next 2 years, the Marathon is during Passover so I'll be learning more about the nutritional content of powerade and gu than I've ever thought was necessary (a frightening thought for a runner that pays a fair amount of attention to what goes into my body). Anyway, thanks for coming along for the ride...