New Year ... Back on Track

  So its official ... 2010 is done and 2011 has official begun!!  I haven't come up with all that many new years resolutions other than I just want to continue with my running / training and hopefully watch my diet a little bit more so that I lose some weight.  I actually had a life insurance physical done earlier in the week and was a little bit concerned to find out that my fasting blood sugar was at the upper limit of normal.  Hard to imagine that I am actually doing more cardiovascular exercise now that I ever really have in the past and my blood tests kind of suck.  Probably just genetics and the fact that I am starting to get up there in age (30 years old next week!).
  With all the interruptions in the training over the past two weeks with the holidays (Christmas & New Years) and my 3 day illness, I really want to make sure that I have a good week training.  Looking ahead, the early portion of the week is wide open for training, although the second half of the week gets a little bit busier.  My plan is to run Monday & Wednesday and either do cross training in the gym or running some hills on Tuesday.  Thursday I am overnight, Friday we have a Celtics Game and Saturday I am working all day!  The long run this week is going to be difficult as its our first run with L Street Running Club!  THe long run is actually longer than I thought as well.  My first "short term" goal when I started all this traning was to be able to run 10 miles by this sunday.  Unfortunately, 10 miles won't cut it as the first L Street run is actually 11.25!  Either way, I am planning on getting it done (even if it takes me all morning).
   So I actually did my first run today with my new Christmas Gear.  It was about 30 degrees, dark and slightly windy tonight on my run.  I wore my jacket for the first time and I have to say that it was awesome.  With just and underarmor shirt and that jacket I was actually a little bit too warm at times during my run.  So this run started out well.  As it was my first maintenance run in about 2 weeks it felt good to get out at a good pace.  I ran the first 2.5 miles in about 22:30.  I ended up walking for about 30 seconds but was able to get right back on pace.  I ended up walking one more time for about a minute, but completed a 4.5 mile run in 43 minutes.  Overall, I felt great ... so hopefully this will be the good start to the week that I need.