Start time: 1/16/11, 5:00pm
Location: TJ Community Center
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:19min/mile
Total Miles For January: 28 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 28 miles

Plan 1 was to run with my group Saturday morning. It was going to be just four of us, but then one by one everyone else dropped out (sudden family-related departure the day before, injury, sickness) and since it was just me I decided I would rather just go back to bed.

Plan 2 was to run in the afternoon after an SPX planning meeting, but it came down to needing a mental stress break instead involving cleaning my cluttered living room before I went berserk.

Plan 3 was to finally run an interval workout at the gym this afternoon, except I realized once I got there that I’d left my watch at home. And if I went back to get it, by the time I returned I wouldn’t have enough to run the workout (including its warm-up and cooldown miles) before the gym closed. Whoops.

So! Plan 4 was to just run a four miler on the track and to track my overall time using how far I made it into a Wait Wait! Don’t Tell Me… episode. Good enough.

Start time: 1/12/11, 4:00pm
Location: TJ Community Center
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:31min/mile
Total Miles For January: 24 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 24 miles

Didn’t get much sleep last night (had to get some work done last night and this morning too) so I’ve been dragging all day. With that in mind, my thoughts of doing an interval workout were quickly scuppered. Glad to just get four miles done and not collapse into a pile of tiredness. Maybe intervals next week.

(9:05, 8:30, 8:09, 8:18)

Start time: 1/10/11, 6:30pm
Location: TJ Community Center
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:28min/mile
Total Miles For January: 20 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 20 miles

I hate the indoor track. I hate running after dark in the winter. I am still not sure which is worse. But at any rate, I am determined to get two weekday runs in a week (among other exercising) once more, and since I have a meeting in the morning and dinner plans after work, I shifted Tuesday’s run to today. (Hopefully I can still get some gym time or a swim in tomorrow, but we’ll see.)

Anyway, felt as unmotivated as ever when it came to that stupid track. I think next time to mix things up I might try go to back to some of Fred’s old speed workouts (like the “28 minutes of hell” or the sequels involving 48 and 72 minutes), or something, because it blows. Also, several stupid people walking or stopping in the middle of the lanes marked for running. One of whom I almost ran into and I kind of wish I did. I really should’ve complained the management but oh well. I will be glad when newbie season is over.

(8:30, 8:24, 8:21, 8:36)

Start time: 12/27/10, 4:30pm
Location: TJ Community Center
Distance: 2×2 miles
Average pace: 8:18min/mile
Total Miles For December: 44 miles
Total Miles For 2010: 629 miles

Heavy winds knocked out the power lines at work, so I ended up working at home this afternoon, and decided to take a short break and go for a run. Well, the idea was to go outside, but it’s so ludicrously windy (up to 40-50mph) that I decided perhaps inside was a better option. Brrrrrrr.

My left foot was a little crampy so after the second mile I stopped and walked a quarter mile before deciding it was all right and did two more. Overall, it seems I was at least consistent.

(8:21 & 8:18, 8:16 & 8:18)

Start time: 12/16/10, 3:45pm
Location: TJ Community Center
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:36min/mile
Total Miles For December: 25 miles
Total Miles For 2010: 610 miles

Missed Tuesday’s run thanks to a combination of a family visit, and oral surgery on Monday. Things are feeling better now, though, so I popped over to the community center this afternoon (once the snow stopped) and knocked out four miles. Didn’t feel great doing them, but it was better than nothing.

(8:44, 8:35, 8:28, 8:37)

Start time: 11/30/10, 6:00pm
Location: TJ Community Center
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 8:32min/mile
Total Miles For November: 23 miles
Total Miles For 2010: 585 miles

Aaaaand, I guess that wraps up a lackluster November. Wasn’t feeling good on Wednesday after the previous day’s run, and while out of town we were never able (due to other commitments) to squeeze in a run. Finally got in a few miles on the indoor track after work today, but mentally I was never able to get into the game and I called it a wrap after going around that stupid thing 24 times. You’ve got to be in the right frame of mind for the indoor track at TJ, and I just wasn’t there.

(8:32, 8:40, 8:25)

Start time: 8/5/10, 6:00pm
Location: TJ Community Center
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:23min/mile
Total Miles For August: 8 miles
Total Miles For 2010: 400 miles

I was out late last night (Charlie and I took my parents out for their birthdays), and getting up early for running just wasn’t going to happen. Storms rolled into the area in the afternoon and it was still coming down when I left the office, so I rallied as best I could and went to the dreaded indoor track for four miles. The place was on half power because of outages, so it was a little stuffy, but it wasn’t humid (except for the locker room). Still, that indoor track is awfully boring, even if it is dry and doesn’t hold the possibility of electrocution.

(8:42, 8:27, 8:12, 8:12)