I’ve been lax about creating entries here as of late.  I’ve actually been more active than usual but somehow that hasn’t equated to more writing.  Partially I’ll chalk that up to the fact that now that I have been devoting an hour on average 6 days a week to some sort of exercise, I haven’t wanted to further isolate myself at home by typing away on the computer when my boyfriend wants to be spending time together; it also feels good to be getting this much me time on a regular basis which makes me want to spend more together time with him.

I did wind up joining the gym I tried out in my last entry; I liked the feel of the place, the location and the price, so all in all it seemed like a good deal.  When I signed up one of the trainers walked me through some of the weight machines and showed me a basic full body weight routine that I can do in a fairly short period of time.  I’ve been doing it as the strength days in my training schedule and it seems to be working alright for me.  I would like to get a second opinion on what I should be focusing on as a runner, but for the time being I think this one will do for a newbie like me.  I’ve been doing well at sticking to my training schedule now that I have no excuse to skip workouts because of the weather or not having something to crosstrain on.  The downside is that it’s easier to talk myself into running on the treadmill inside than it is to talk myself into running outside.  It’s idiosyncratic because I don’t enjoy running on the treadmill, while I do enjoy being outside and covering ground, nevertheless it’s hard to overcome the desire to not freeze my ass off running on snow covered streets.   I’m trying to keep a balance and do my short runs inside and pick the nicest day of the week to do my longer run outside where I won’t be mind numbingly bored.  My 10k is a month away (5 weeks) and I’m a little nervous right now about how I’ll do, but that’s to be expected I suppose.  As I kick up my mileage in the next few weeks hopefully some confidence will settle in as well.