Between the weather, the holidays and work/coaching my training is been a bit inconsistent. Still my goal was to run at leat 5x a week so I am ok, but this snow is killing me and sucks my motivation away to run. Oh well, I am allowing me some extra time until the end of the year to get serious for tri training. :)

did my lung run and went ok but it was just too cold (22F per weather.com and 8F with wind chill). I ran from my place to Newton (on Beacon street) then came back on Comm av on the Boston marathon course running the hills including heart break and back on Beacon. I felt great most of the time but after heart break I got very cold I think from drinking as liquid was just super cold dropping my core temperature. I could have run faster but some spots were slow due to snow, traffic. I can tell I haven't run long forever and my legs were like wtf are you doing :)  This is the part I don't like from marathon training. I like to run frequent and fast, not necessarely long and aroundf 14-15 miles is my limit, but for know ill suck it up. I am on the fence about this marathon thingy, I would like to run a sub 2:40 hr mary but at the same time I don't want to rush my training and I am not sure I'll get in that type of shape by the 3rd weekend of Feb. We'll see, I can always just run half marathon, because my main goal is to rock the 70.3 distance and make 2008 my tri breakthrough year...