Wednesday Night Group Run

I am really looking forward to tonights Haddonfield Running Company Wednesday night group run. I love the wednesday night runs through Haddonfield, Westmont and Tavistock. The route make the run challenging due to the elevation changes that you face.

Nervous eating

So, the last couple of nights I haven't been able to fall asleep. Monday Night I was still wide awake at 5:30am, last night I fell asleep around 10'ish pm then woke up at 11:24pm and could not fall back to sleep. I have noticed that when I can t sleep I eat all night long and Ill eat anything just to eat.

Monday morning

Got up a little late this morning and I have a lot to do in the office. planning on getting my work out in after work and before ROTARY TONIGHT. Today is a cross training day and planning on 30 minutes on the elliptical and an upper body workout with the weights.

Tomorrow morning is my favorite Track work doing Yasso 800 at the track. Ill let you know after Rotary how the work out went.

less then a week til Broad Street

What races are you training for? I am looking forward to running Broad Street with my daughter Sarah

I have signed up for the New York City Marathon in 195 days. Last year I was happy just to make through all 5 boroughs and to the finish line in Central Park. This year the goal is to finish in less then 4 hours, 3:50:00 is the target.I also have signed up for the Philadelphia Marathon. But we are just a week away from the fastest and best 10 miler in the world. The Broad Street Run. Friday I will head over to the Linc for the expo to pick up my Packet and hopefully I'll be able to pick up Dante and Sarah's packets as well.

This will be the 3 rd year running Broad Street. I am really looking forward to this years race because I will be running it with my daughter Sarah and my son-in-law Dante. We have run other races together, but nothing as big as Broad street.

I am also running on the RED Team for South Jersey Athletic Club, hopefully me and my team mates can defends last years team victory for Masters.

Tomorrow will be a cross training day of weights concentrating on upper body.

I need to drop 40 plus pounds before November.

I hope to see a lot of friends on Sunday AT THE STARTING AND FINISH LINES. Last year I ran( pardon the pun)into two people on the course that I had no idea would be running the race.

Why do some people look at runners like we are crazy

Tonight I came home from my weekly group run in Haddonfield. Every Wednesday night all year round no matter what the weather is freezing cold January, pouring rain, or 100 degrees in august anywhere from 20 to over 100 runners gather in front of the Haddonfield running company and run the same 6.65 mile course through Haddonfield, Haddon twp and Tavistock.
What struck me tonight was a comment my sister-in-law, Bunnie,. made. Nothing really no different than a similar comments made by my wife, Donna or many other people. Tonight the weather was not quite perfect. 35 degrees, windy and still 10 plus inches of snow on the ground. Back to the comment. as I came back my sister-in-law said" you run in this weather, you’re a die heart". I have heard similar thinks before like you’re crazy it’s too hot outside, it’s too cold, it’s raining, it’s snowing. I never really gave them much thought, just smiled grabbed a water and moved on. But tonight it hit me...the same people that are telling me I am crazy for going for a run because it’s too cold, are going outside for a smoke.

I don't understand why I am crazy for running in various weather conditions in the eyes of these people when they are standing outside shivering puffing on a Marlboro or Virginia Slims
No one understands a runner and our commitment to logging our miles not our spouses, or kids or close friends only another runner can relate.

But why would a smoke think we are crazy for running in the cold while they freeze smoking a cancer stick.

No running tonight with all this snow. So I am stuck on the eliptical trainer. I am going to start a new core workout that I found in Bicycling magazine.

I have until March 22 to get my Half Marathon time down to a sub 2 hour. My goal is 1:50:00. That will put me on track for a 75 minute broad street run in May.

The worst part of all this snow is 2 weeks in a row I have been unable to do track work. Just can't replace running on the track.

Couldn't sleep last night. Way too much snow still on the ground for my scheduled track workout 6x1000. So I am going to drag myself down stairs and hit the eliptical and the weights.

I feel so much better after a workout, it is just real hard to get started some days. "Some Days are just harder then others"

So off I go