Ready to Run

Yes, I am in Kansas City, Missouri, and it's 5:00 am and I'm wide awake and ready to run. I'm on a trip for work and because of time zone changes and the fact that I don't sleep very well when I travel, I just can't get back to sleep.

I was hoping to keep up my training while out of town but so far no luck. I ventured down to the "fitness room" in the hotel and tried to figure out how to turn on the rickety little treadmill. No dice. I mentioned the problem to the front desk and about 15 minutes later someone came down and checked out the circuit breaker. Still no dice. So I'm sitting in my room waiting for the sun to come up a little so I can venture outside. I'm munching on a Clif bar since the restaurant isn't open yet either.

There's a little park within walking distance with a little trail and people were jogging on it last night so I think there will be people on it this morning and it should be pretty safe. I used Runstoppable to figure out the approximate mileage and it looks like about a one mile loop. I only need to do four miles so it should be no big deal.

My training is going very well. I now run during the week at the gym at lunch time and my pace has improved. My shin splints have not gotten any worse and I dutifully do my PT every night I can (almost every night). I ran my 6 miles on Saturday entirely with the 11:00 minute/mile pace group. Of course the coach for that group was doing 20 miles so she was not pushing it but it was still faster than I have been running and I was able to do it easily. Finally, some progress! And just in time for the race, which is 4 weeks away! I have an 8 miler this Saturday, then 10 and 11 and then it's race day.