pressing on, then...

5 mi this morning. I set the alarm last night knowing I had to do that run today or it would be another under-mileage week. So this morning I suited up without looking out the window, without checking the weather. It had to be done. It was about 10-15 degrees colder out today than it was earlier in the week, but the sidewalks were clear. An automatic 30 second time bonus on my pace, what a relief. It's not that I'm unbearably slow, it's that I've been careful on the ice. I'm back to about where I should be.

I'm sitting in my diabetes compression socks today (they're like $50 cheaper than the fancy sport-specific ones and do the same thing!) because I'm trying to keep it together for Massive Workout Weekend. It started with 5 this AM, then 90 min on computrainer at Element tonight, then 2 hrs on trainer at class tomorrow, then 10-13mi run on Sunday morning. I think I'll be taking Monday as a rest day.

Ben and I went to look at a new car last night, and it was a hoot. We're both too darn nice, and the salesman was just sooooo pushy. We just wanted to get a sense of the car and try driving it, he nearly convinced us that we had to have it. I finally rescued us by saying "y'all are about to close and I don't want to keep you from your family," and we got up and walked away. It was crazy. The techniques, so calculated.

Winter is so last week.

The clock tower near my work is back to functioning and set properly, so now for my whole walk to work, it's telling me what's up. Today, it was saying I needed to walk faster. I attempted to heed its call, and ended up on my ass. It wasn't the first time- I cut my 5 miler this morning to 3 after doing similar acrobatics. This snow/ice mix is really trying.

I did the workout DVD again last night, and thankfully I can report that the second time was easier than the first. Tonight I have trainer class, which will be special in that I'm trying out a new saddle. I bought it completely blindly off the internet, but I believe in WTB saddles. They've never done me wrong. From the looks of it this one will rock, too. (Which is the opposite I can say for, say, fizik saddles, which have never done me right.)

I guess there's nothing interesting to report.

Ramping up.

Things are sort of coming together for my sort of season. I am keeping my running mileage above 20/week now, which I should have been doing for more than a month, and really I should be in the 30-40 range, but hey, it's an improvement. And I'm sort of starting to do a workout DVD because I sort of realized that running and cycling has left me with a core and upper body that would make a cup of jello jealous.

I sort of got the upgrade to a Category B official this weekend, which is sort of funny, because I am still pretty torn about whether I like officiating.

I did commit to a first race of the bike season, though, at Sylvan Island. I'm 80% sure that I'll race novice, since I got stomped in "open" last year. (I didn't realize that "open" meant I'd be lining up with UCI license-holders.) I haven't been on my MTB since cross season and haven't been on trails since probably October. Uff da.