Good Start

It's amazing that a simple date on the calendar adds such motivation, but New Year's, birthdays, holidays all seem to help inspire my running. To get a jump on my resolutions, I've started with three straight 8 mile runs. My highest total ever for the first three days. Given that I've been in training for Boston or getting into the middle of indoor track season in years past, this won't last, but if I can maintain around 40 miles or so a week, that is a good sustainable level and seems to be a level my body can handle without breaking down. When we get into speedwork and racing, I'll need to drop miles. I learned the hard way at the Burbank 5k, that my body can't do mid-40s and race.

Happy New Year.