Man oh man, life sometimes gets busy and hectic…and sometimes I just get lazy.  Put those two together, and you can see why I haven’t blogged in a few days.  First things first…I didn’t run for 3 days (Sun, Mon, Tues)…SHAME on me.

Good reasons?  Yes.  Monday was the fundraiser for Team in Training at the Somerset Patriots ball park.  We managed to raise $375 that night from selling 50/50s, and overall from the event (selling prior 50/50s and tickets) we probably raised over $1000.  Not bad, not bad at all.

And Tuesday’s excuse?  Team in Training Send Off for the Virginia Beach Rock N Roll Half Marathon I’m running in two weeks with my girlfriend (now of 1 year…happy anniversary!).  Really looking forward to the race, should be a good time.   So let me catch you up on the other runs…

Day: Saturday

Workout: 12 Miles

Time: 1:53ish

Weekends have NOT been friendly to waking up at 5:00 am these past few weeks.  It always seems to be rainy out.  But this time I pushed through it and actually went to the run.  It rained most of the run…not hard, but it was still wet.  Parts of the trail were flooded, so we had to make some detours, but overall it was a good run.  Prior to this 12 I had only run a 9 miler this training cycle…so the last 3 were a little though.  At 9.5 my stomach was very unhappy, and at 10-12 I ran/walked the rest.  Not my best workout, but time wise it was still pretty good.  I’ll be in good shape for Virginia Beach, then I can still get a few quality long runs in before the ING Hartford Half in October.

Day: Wednesday

Workout: 3 miles

Ran an easy 3 miles with my girlfriend.  About 0.8 miles in my Garmin went in…luckily shortly after that her Garmin finally found a signal and kicked in.  We ran a somewhat hilly course…not too hard, but not flat and easy either.  I was really impressed with her running.  She keeps getting better.  I’m trying to convince her to run a marathon…she’s slowly swaying in that direction, but she doesn’t like running in the cold and training would mostly be throughout the winter, so we’ll see how that goes.  In any case, I think she’s ready to PR at Virginia Beach, assuming good weather and no injuries.

Well, that’s it for right now.  I’m going to try to post after tonight’s run too.  Until then…Run on Friends!