Workout: 4 miles

Time: 34:23

My goal this week?  Actually run more than once!  I remember those days…where I’d actually run more than once a week.  Ha!  Hopefully this week will restart that trend.  Today’s run was just to get out there and run.  It was kinda hot, and my legs were still heavy from the race on Saturday (more on that in a minute).  But, I got in what I wanted to get in.  And if I’m feeling very ambitious, I might even do the 200 sit-up challenge tonight!

So Saturday was the Belmar 5.  It was a race morning decision to try to run it for some speed…wasn’t sure what I wanted to do.  I had run like 3-4 times over the previous 3 weeks…but I still felt like trying it out.  Miles 1 and 2 were good…7:52 and 7:45.  Then, well, the heat kicked in…and man was it hot.  The last 3 miles got progressively slower, with the last mile clocking in at 8:58.  Finished 42 minutes flat.  I wanted to finish under 40, around the pace I wanted to do the half marathon in, but 42 ain’t that bad.  My girlfriend also finished a few minutes over the time she wanted to finish in, but her first mile was her fastest ever!  Oh!  And I beat Governor Corzine.  It was kinda interesting seeing him there with secret service and whatnot.

Sunday my girlfriend and I finally did some fundraising.  We did some supermarket begging as I like to call it.  4 hours, raised $150 dollars.  Not too bad.  We didn’t bring chairs, so we had to stand the whole time, but it went by pretty quickly.  We had a good time.  We met a guy who him and his mother just started a non profit called Operation Bling, who provide free jewelry to patients in the oncology wards at hospitals.  It’s a pretty sweet charity.  Check it out.

Lastly, I got the tickets printed for the baseball game, so buy some!!   And buy some 50/50′s!  Money raised goes to LLS!

Well, I think that’s it for now.  Hopefully tomorrow will bring another run!  Hope all you are running well!

Until tomorrow… Run on Friends!