What Can I Say . . .

If nothing else, I am consistant, writing one blog post a month.  Truth is I get busy and forget to post and then feel guilty I haven't posted, until I finally get the motivation to post.   So now I've share insight into my posting thought process, what's been going all the last month?

Warm Weather please! Can't wait until this is reality again.

After the marathon, I took some time off to recover and reclaim so time.  Other runners know the commitment of time and energy training for a marathon.  Not just the time running, but the time preparing and recovering from the run.  I also needed the break mentally, as the grind of the training started to exceed the pleasure of the activity during the weeks before the race.  After the recovery, time came to start training again with a new tweak.

A coach.  I decided in early January that I wanted to hire a coach to give me some personal guidance and another voice besides the one in my head.  After interviewing a number of great coaches, I hired a fella in Georgia who I believe can help me stay healthy, get stronger, and achieve my goals.  After filling out background information and setting up all of the administrative stuff we were off an running at the beginning of February.

So far, so good! The weather in Omaha has posed some difficulties with cold and snow during, after, and around training runs.  The plan laid out by coach has already asked me to do some new things, like drills in the middle of the run and strength exercises afterwards.  I am looking forward to what is next!

Until we meet again, happy running my friends . . .