Training Updates

Everyone in our house has been derailed by a nasty cold this week. I have the least to complain about, but The Swadfather was hit pretty hard.

Maybe I haven't mentioned: The Swadfather is running the Boston Marathon again this year with the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge team. (DFMC benefits the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research. Please consider making a donation in the name of someone you knwo who has been touched by cancer.) We discussed the marathon while I was pregnant, and I signed on, knowing he would be training while Speedy was a newborn. I figure, heck, at least one of us is really running! But what a lot of pressure to be training for a marathon when one's partner is living vicariously through you. There are days where I can't listen to TSF's planned route, current training diet, or aches and pains, because I want to be back out there so badly.

As it is, I should be able to run a full 3 miles by mid-February. I ran for 22:40 straight on Monday at a 12 min/mile pace, and I expect to be able to do a full 30 min. this week. Had a lousy run on Thursday, but was probably paying for the cold and another day of schlepping Speedy to NE Grows (in the driving rain, nursing merrily all the way, as he seems to be preparing for his 3 mo. growth spurt.)