Marathon Training Week 8 Long Run

Date: 01/28/2012 Type: Run Distance: 10 miles Time: 1 hr 36 min 33 secs Average pace: 9:39 min/miles Route: 2012-01-24 at 11 AM Calories: 1264

Thoughts on Moving

Moving is something my husband and I talk about nearly everyday but in the last month we took a break from our relocation thoughts.  The break was nice since often I feel like our conversations just seem to take us in a circle.  However it took only one snowfall for our conversation to turn back to moving to Atlanta.

We're in a starter home and in the near future we will be bursting out of the house.  There are three options:
(1) Add on to the house which was our original hope when we bought this house
(2) Move to a completely new place with better weather/less snow among other pros, Atlanta area is likely but we cross no city off the list
(3) Move to our hometown where we have lots of family around but wouldn't be that different in terms of our lifestyle from our current NJ town since we only live about a half hour drive away from said hometown.

What to do?

Week 7 Long Run Complete

I did the 9 miles and the treadmill is my new best friend, NOT!

I did it mostly at a 7.0 mi/hr pace and I'm sore now (24 hours later).  While running on the treadmill is so boring, it definitely relieves me of the water dilemma and the bitter cold.  All in all not so bad but I can't see spending more than 80 minutes on a treadmill ever.  Even the treadmill makes you stop after 60 minutes and start it up again.  I was waiting for the someone in the gym to ask me to get off the treadmill for the last 30 minutes or so since there is a 30 minute max but no one was waiting.  Plus I noticed someone else doing the exact same thing (running a really long time and restarting the machine only to run some more).  So glad its over because today I came down with a cold.

Marathon Training Week 7 - Water Dilemma

Things have been going really well with the training.  When I run on the treadmill my pace is low 8 min/mile and outside runs usually 9:30ish pace (crazy hills in my neighborhood plus cold equals slower pace).  Last week I survived my 8 mile long run and today I have a 9 mile long run planned.  Very nervous because it is bitter cold!

I'm feeling like I should plan to drink a little water at some point during my run.  I've read and spoken to lots of people suggesting that you drive around and leave water for yourself in the necessary random place. I think this is so weird and can't get comfortable with this idea.  Lots of runners apparently do this.  Huh?  I don't get it, how do I know someone walking a dog didn't let the animal pee on it or tamper with it in some other way.  I suppose I could just buy a belt with small water bottles that attach or a backpack water thing but those must be annoying to wear (and frankly when I see people wearing especially the backpack I think they are nuts).  For right now, I am going to leave water in front of my own house and just do loops.  Perhaps, I'll invest in some other water drinking equipment to run with but since I just purchased new sneakers and sports bras plus I still have to pay the registration for the marathon, I'm feeling like my inexpensive hobby is costing me too much money this month.

So planned babysitter had to cancel, could I possibly run 9 miles on the treadmill today?  I may try...