AWOL

I have been through the range of running emotions since I last posted. 

November 11th I was at my DD#1 11th birthday party and had a "Why" moment.  Why am I running?  Why have I given up all the other things I love to do? 

I could not answer the question - So I stopped running.  To be fair, I started to run only 50-60 miles per week with no training focus.  I drank (Booze) and ate what I wanted to.  I played racketball, I downhill skied, I played volleyball and put on weight.  By the time January 1st came around I weighed 242#. (+33 pounds)

Next up was the thought of running 10 hours or less a week and do all those other things I enjoy doing.  I followed this for the month of January.

February 4th I ran the John Dick Crusty 50k - A beautiful, icey, sunny day to run on the trail.  I was slow - But I smiled almost the whole time.  I decided I miss being in shape, I miss running effortlessly for hours on end and finally ... I miss being competetive.  Oh, I could have never beat Zach - But I mean in a general sense of competetive.

February 6th - I decided to start training ... But for what?  I need to lose a bunch of weight = lots of miles.  I can run more miles if I run slower ... So I decided to train for FANS24 hour race.  With the caveat that I will not sign up for it or run it unless I am < 205#. 

February 13th - I gave up alchohol (No not forever - But I am in training!).

February I ran 536 slow miles - Weight 2/29 = 224#

Last 3 weeks - All slow miles - A lot of walk breaks

Feb 13th - Feb 19th = 131 miles
Feb 20th - 26th = 171 miles
Feb 27th - Mar 4th = 168 miles

I will not post as much as I did before I lost my way - But I will track my weekly progress toward FANS24 - June 2-3rd.

If anyone is still out there - Thanks for reading.