Early December, 2010 Update

After some pretty extensive downtime (I still ran nearly every day, and rode on a few that I didn't), I've got my first double-digit mileage run ahead of me (this morning) since the Lakefront Marathon, which was on October 3rd. It's part of my build-up to the InStep Indoor Half Marathon in January. It's been about a 2-month "break". Know what's exciting to me about this run? That I plan to run it at a pace faster than any treadmill training run I've done at of this distance or more. Train faster to race faster, right? No, I know it's not that simple, but with a weekly tempo session and a speed session, cranking up the long runs should only prove to results in faster times on race day. Yep... treadmill. We got blasted with 4-5 inches of snow yesterday, and the streets aren't really clear yet. I'd rather run to the drone of music and machinery than risk a slip that could cause me to crack my skull open.

Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park in Milwaukee is set to open soon after a delay, due to some permits or something. I'll be hitting it up on the weekend of January 7-9, and hopefully not make a fool out of myself for posessing limited technical skills, but I'll whoop a few of those stunt kiddies around the cross country course after say, a few dozen laps.