Rough Few Weeks

Do you know what is not conducive to running? Working 10-12 hour days. The feeling of being so burned out at the end of the day that all you really want to do is go to the Waffle House and drown your sorrows in waffle-y goodness. And, if you are from Juneau (or one of my out-of-town friends that I have dragged there), you know that includes ham and cheese. Right after the long days and weekend working, I went to Anchorage (for work) and worked out once. Then I got back and resumed 10 hour days. (I had to call it quits after 10). My boss was kind enough to let me actually work 4 10s this week instead of a regular 5-day week with 10-hour days. Monday (tomorrow) is Alaska Day...so no work. What does that mean? I got a 4 day weekend. Hell yeah. Did I work out? Once. I got a gym membership for the winter. Running on a treadmill is better than running in the shit. Juneau shit includes sideways rain, really hard rain, hail, freezing rain (Different than hail. Obviously.), sleet, frozen slush, regular slush, snow, wet snow, powder (If powder, will be skiing. Obviously), bitter cold, and the less threatening (and pleasant compared to the alternatives), mist. I guess I didn't even touch on wind. We get that too. Hopefully, after this weekend of a little relaxation, I will be back on the wagon in the running department.

Weight? 126. I lost 4 pounds, but let's be realistic. I haven't been working out much and I am guessing that the weight loss involves muscle loss. That might explain why the rowing machine felt a only a little bit better than running in the shit.

I have to be able to consistently and comfortably run 25 to 30 miles per week to be able to train for a marathon. It takes 4 months to train for the big 26.2. That means, if I want to run the Anchorage Mayor's in late June, I need to start training in late February. Here is the other schtick. The legislative session takes up a significant portion of said training time and I won't actually get out on the road (because the weather will be....guess....shit) until sometime in April. The taper will have to start early June. If I am not feeling it, I can always do the Douglas marathon in August. There is no harm in that, right?