2011

Hello..Happy New Year!

It has been several months since my last post. I've been running, busy with work and family and resting, and eating. Obviously, not blogging, but, I intend to change that right now! Thank goodness, no competitive eating, but, eating more than I should be given the level of my activity.

I'm training for a few events right now, the Pittsburgh Marathon (it will be a training run for Laurel Ultra), and Laurel Ultra, and I am considering a few events as training runs before both of these events (Pittsburgh is May 15 and Laurel is June 11)

I am training about an average of 9 hours a week and that amount of training will begin to gradually increase so that I am building up mileage towards running Laurel. Laurel is my A race for the year. Anything less than my goal of finishing will not be acceptable. I underestimated Laurel last year (yes I DNF'd at the final checkpoint - that was quite disappointing to say the least) and I am not going to let that happen again. I've set an aggressive goal to go after at Laurel. As for Pittsburgh, no goal set, but, I would like to have a nice injury free run.

I decided to run Pittsburgh for Team in Training. Inspired by many forces, I decided to make the leap. So far, it has been a very rewarding experience and while cancer does not directly affect my life, it does impact many others that you may or may not know. Unknown to me in the past, I recently learned that the funds raised by TNT assisted someone that I talk to at work on a fairly frequent basis - and those funds saved a life - literally through treatment that they received. They remain cancer free to date. While I realize that the economy might not be in the best of places, I would great appreciate your support if possible

I will be posting interesting life and running stories more often and I look forward to sharing a great running 2011 with you :)!