and they're off...

days 1 and 2 - check!

well the marathon training has "officially" started now. i did 4 miles on saturday and another 3+ last nite. the schedule i am using has me running by miles on the weekend long runs, and in minutes on the weekdays. that's good, plus the midweek runs are never longer than an hour which is important since i do this running at nite and anything too much longer than that in the dark becomes unbearable.

at this point i'm running a nice easy pace for me, in the low 9's. i have no reason to push it, plus i want to enjoy as much of this as possible. darrin and i ran together last nite. he's training for the indy mini in a couple of weeks, and also ironman wisconsin in september. he's been doing quite a bit of biking and swimming, but running? notsomuch. we're fairly close in ability still, so it works well.

i haven't had any muscle soreness after running lately, which is a good sign because it means i'm regaining some of the fitness i'd lost when i was recovering from the surgery. i'm eating too much, though. i still weigh almost exactly the same as i did in january, but i had been a few pounds under. i might start up a food log like i did in january. a food journal is quite a deterrant to eating when after eating something, you have to enter the food and the calories into a database. anyone who wants to lose weight should try this. it's really an eye-opener.

oh well. 35 minutes is on the schedule for tonite. it's a nasty day here and i hope it stops raining before i run later. fingers crossed!