Real Funny Weatherman....

We are now officially in the the 10 day window for scoping out the weather forecast for Marathon Monday!  I dutifully checked the forecast for Boston today and this is what I saw:

Horror of horrors!  Seriously, someone at the Weather Channel must be playing a trick.  50s and 60s for the next week and then BAM.....80 on Monday!  I thought it must be some sort of error so I checked Hopkinton too just be sure and wouldn't ya know???  81!!  I'm hoping as the days go by this will get a little lower.  60....I'll take in a second but 80 is a little extreme.  The record high is 84 which was in 2003, my first year.  Fingers crossed that year 10 doesn't break that record!

Crazy Runner Girl

This one was in my drafts never published.  I will be posting some catch up posts this week!

That is what I think must have been going through my neighbors head on Sunday January 22nd.  We had just been hit by a big snowstorm on Saturday.  There was a foot of snow and nowhere to run. 

The treadmill was a thought...but 10 miles on a treadmill did not sound like a super fun time to me.  So I did the next logical thing.  I ran 34 loops around my neighborhood.  :)  Yup.  I did that.  I live on the bottom of a road that is a horseshoe so I went online to the USTAF mapit website to measure how long one loop was...0.3 miles.  Bigger than a track and since I live at the bottom of the horse shoe I would get to practice running up and down the hills.  Good practice for Boston!  So it was decided.  I got my running gear on and headed out the door.  The laps actually went by pretty fast!  The dogs were not excited in the least to watch me run by every 3 minutes or so, barking every time I went by.  Finally, after looping around for 5 miles worth of loops (I wore my garmin watch so that I wouldn't have to count) I popped in the house and grabbed Maddie.  I decided I'd do 3 miles with Maddie and then the final 2 miles with Baxter. Running with the dogs was definitely an added challenge, but it split up the second half of the run quite nicely.

While there were some pros to passing the house every few minutes, I'm not sure I will be doing that again anytime soon. :)

DFMC 2012!!

10 years!!!  2012 is the 10th year I have the honor of running the Boston Marathon as a member of the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge team!  I cannot believe it has been 10 years!  I think every year since year 5 I have been saying I am going to take a break.  Then, every September I get the application in my email and I have to instantly fill it out and cross my fingers I will be accepted for another year.

So the 2012 running and training season is off and running!!  This year, my goal is to raise $10,000, a lot of money that is going to help the scientists at Dana Farber find a cure for cancer.  My mom has volunteered to be my right hand fundraising lady.  Between the 2 of us, I am confident we can do this!  As far as training is going, I am a little behind my training schedule.  Even though the weather has been cooperating, nothing else is :).  So back to blogging to you can all keep me honest and getting my runs in. I have been keeping up with my strength training even if I am not able to get out and run during the daylight.  I am a huge scaredy cat and am afraid to run in the dark.  It's very dark here on Cape Cod.  

Training partners - well if you have read any of my past posts you know I have my trusty golden doodle running partner Madison.  Lucky for me this year I now have 2 trusty golden doodle running partners!  Baxter has passed his first birthday and now is a ready and willing running buddy.

After a late November 5 mile run!

I'll be back with more tales of training and fundraising so please stay tuned and pass this on to anyone you think may be interested!  I added a gadget on the side so you can get my new posts delivered to your email as they are posted!  (I'm still getting the hang of this blogging thing.)