Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Rain, rain, go away...

Running indoors kind of sucks!!! It's cool because your running, but not so cool because you're inside with nothing to look at except your own reflection in the mirror, which in my case isn't really all that bad :-) but you also don't get to go anywhere!!!

The city I live in - Belleville, Ontario, Canada has a really great trail system along the waterfront (cleverly named the "waterfront trail"), and it's great for joggers, roller bladers, walker, and of course runners. The trouble is that everytime I plan to run it rains. So yesterday I went to the gym...4.5 miles on the treadmill without the pain experienced on Saturday, plus some weight training due to the fact that I haven't lifted weights in a few months and my wife and I are moving into our new house in less than a month and I'm going to be expected to carry a crapload of boxes as well as furniture. Sorry...I digress...back to the running thing. So today the weather in Belleville is not to bad 15 degrees and partly sunny skies...great weather for running outside. Only problem is I'm planning on going to dinner with some old friends from high school tonight, so a run isn't really going to fit into the schedule...oh well at least I've got another 14 months to prepare for the marathon.

Tomorrow Environment Canada is calling for rain and 30km/h winds for Belleville so it looks like I'll be running indoors again...but Friday's looking good. I'll keep you posted.

Will

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