Livin' the Dream in Lima

This week, I've had good intentions. Intentions of running in the mornings before school. Because having the afternoons free is amazing!  But every morning, I wake up somewhere in the 4 o'clock hour and think how impossible  it is to get up when the alarm goes off at 5:10am. So I move it back to 6:30am, which leaves no time for running before school. (Although I did get up and run hills with my running group on Tuesday. When I have to meet people, I can wake up.) So, this week I've been running on the treadmill after school. Because it's starting to get cold. And because I like to watch TV. And because there's 2 hours of Friends on TBS from 4pm-6pm. (Need I say more?) Yesterday, I got myself all situated on the treadmill, and plugged my headphones (with only one working earphone) into the TV. And there was no sound! I guess after 12+ months of sweaty treadmill running, and sweaty summer running, they decided they'd had enough. I'm actually surprised t...

First of all, I want to say "Hello and welcome!" to anyone coming over from SkinnyRunner 's site! Thanks for checking out my lil' blog! And, SR said I'm from Boston, the Beantown. Not exactly... I'm from a small town in Ohio named after a bean, hence the "Bean Town".  Here are a few links to some of my race recaps, if you're interested. :-) BBO 4-Mile (3/12/2011) Indianapolis Monumental Half-Marathon (11/6/2010) Run Clark Lake  (8/7/2010) As I've just got 6 weeks to go until the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon... I decided I'd better pick up the slack on my speed workouts. I started out the training cycle super-strong, with a tempo workout and interval workout each week. That slowly faded to just a tempo run, and then now, just easy runs. Not cool. Source So yesterday I decided to give Yasso 800's a try. The idea of the workout is that you take your goal marathon time and run it as an 800m interval. Then a...