Once a week

It must be time for my once a week update. I mean, I'm here, it's been a week, so why not? I'm fighting a cold or sinus infection or something. Runny nose, coughing, sinus drainage. Yay. And just in time for tonight's Messiah performance.

Running has taken a backseat once again. At least until I get over whatever is making me cough my head off. I've signed up to do a 100 mile challenge. The goal is to run at least 100 miles by the end of February. It's doable...if I would start doing. I'm 6.68 miles in. My last run was this past Friday and I did 3.58 miles in 42.44 minutes. At least I'm fairly consistent. I hope I can be back out by the end of this week. I want to start 10K training at the beginning of January, so I need to be more consistent between now and then.

That's about all the news that is news for now.

Nothing new to report here. I've not run in almost a week. Tomorrow will change that, though, since the school has running club. I am planning on starting 10K training come Monday. Last time I used the training plan on active.com, but I think I'll go with Podrunner: Intervals Freeway to 10K this time. The training plan there is laid out in intervals rather than longer runs once a week. I'm thinking I can probably start at week 3 or 4 since there is walking involved.

We're getting ready for Christmas around here. The tree has been up since the day after Thanksgiving. I've bought all of two presents, though. I'm thinking that will be my project this weekend: finishing Christmas shopping and hopefully with Clayton. The kids will be at his parents' house Friday night to spend the night, so why not turn our date night into a shopping night?

Besides Christmas shopping, I really need to get out and buy a black dress. Like yesterday. I need it for Tuesday night when my church choir does Handel's Messiah as a sing-a-long with the community. I'm really looking forward to that, but need a dress.

I've been exercising at the top of every hour still. If nothing else, it's helping me maintain my weight within half a pound. I know getting back to running will help it start dropping again.