Last week was Christmas and all the craziness that is involved with that but I still managed to run everyday and log 45.7 miles! Santa brought me some nice running gear, specifically a new pair of CW-X insulator tights, I've already used them and they are great. I also got a new Ipod Nano, which has an FM tuner which is nice for a break from all my normal songs from time to time.
I attended the Holiday 8 in Doylestown on Christmas Eve, it is an 8 mile loop run at 8 AM on the 8 holidays. Surprisingly there was a huge turnout, Ben and I led the way and put an extra 2 miles in to make it a nice even 10 miles for the day. Luckily this year I only had to run 4 miles on Christmas day, last year I put in 10 miles while the kids were napping, so that was easy.
The unofficial leader of the Holiday 8 is the director of the Bucks 5k Series, he mentioned that registration has opened and to check out the website. Today I checked out the site and they added age group course records, I have 5! Check it out here.
On my way out to run today someone I know asked if I was going out, it was more a statement because I was already dressed the part. We talked for a minute about the cold and off I went, while doing a short 4 miler in what turned out to be a nice 28 degree day I started thinking about why I do this. I came up with the following, a marathon is physical but more then half of it is mental, so a day like today when it is freezing cold out will pay dividends when I'm actually running the marathon. Now you ask how? By doing these workouts outside by the time you get to the marathon nothing about the weather will shock me, I'll have done it all, and that is just one mental hurdle down. Trust me when running a marathon any reason seems like a good reason to stop and walk at the time.
