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With Christmas looming and my suddenly single need to both trim down and burn off a lot of excess mental energy, I have been working out more. I had already found a nice bicycling route that starts not far from here and runs through several parks along the creek. I had the opportunity to ride the route a couple of times in the last two weeks and was pretty sure that I had mapped it out to about 6 miles round trip, using google maps to guess the equivalent route on the streets. You’d think google would be close...Then, I went out with my brother-in-law and found out that I was rather far off... It’s actually 12 km round-trip or about 7.5 miles. This is good... I’ve been making the trip 3 times a week and at this rate, I should be able to add on a couple of miles easily the next time I go out. The only risk right now is that it’s freezing and the wind chill while riding is pretty severe. Which begs the question should I just run it?
My sister is training for a half-marathon in March. I’m actually tempted to join her and her friend. It’s an interesting goal, because I’ve never really been a distance runner. I typically start out at a pretty fast clip and tire myself and I’ve never really run more than two or three miles at a time. Even three miles has been a bit of a chore, so a half-marathon would be a big accomplishment. It's definitely something I should do, just to say I have.
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Copyright: 2009-12-03 19:03:08