Lucky me! For some reason, my company decides to give us President's Day off each year. With Erin at work and the girls at daycare, I decided to head out on a walk during the late morning. After the cold temperatures and snow last week, the upper 30's felt like a heat wave today. I ended up going on a 6 mile walk and realized just how much I had been missed being outside. Spending time outside is probably my most favorite thing ever. In fact, wanting to spend more time outside is a big reason that I decided to get back into running a couple years ago. That walk today really got me fired up to start training outside again.
Speaking of training, I'm excited to share that I found another 10k race to replace the 10k that was eliminated from the HyVee Road Races. The Great Plains 10k will be run on April 23 in downtown Des Moines. My sister-in-law and her future husband ran the race last year and liked it. My 8 weeks of training starts on Monday, Feb 29 and I will be focused on increasing my speed.
For those who are interested, I use the popular Hal Higdon training programs and have had great success with them. There is A LOT of good information on his website and he has training programs for everything from a couch to 5k all the way up to advanced marathon training and everything in between. Here is a link to the program that I am starting with: http://www.halhigdon.com/training/51123/10K-Intermediate-Training-Program
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