January 2011 Summary

Runs - 26
Workouts - 7
Injured - 0

The Bad: The month started out damn cold and ended the same way. Most of my month from a running perspective transpired in a dark and cold setting.

Work for a two week stretch reared it's ugly head with huge hours logged in. How I found the time to run much less be a good husband is beyond me.

Baby classes. While extremely informative, 8 hour classes on back to back weekends were brutal.

I still suck at running and peeing at the same time. Why I continue to try is beyond me.

The Good: I can't take all the credit for this cause the wife did lots, but completing babies room with 3 weeks to spare deserves some props.

With all the pink splashed around the room, we're hoping the doc is right with her predicting a little girl for us.

This was easily one of my stronger months of training I've had in some time. My mileage this month easily exceeded last January and February mileage combined. Gotta love being healthy. All my runs had a purpose as well. I wasn't running to just log in miles, but rather was running to work on speed, tempo, aid in recovery or build on the long run. Each run left me extremely satisfied both physically and mentally.

I gotta thank PG for motivating me on a few long runs. We ran a loop early in the month from our hood that I've since termed the Hobo Loop (incorporating the Platte River and Cheery Creek paths). He also put together a group run including some cool and fast kids. More can be read here and here.

The gym continues to be a part of my cross training. Up to 90 minutes is spent pushing weights around, working on the core and stretching between sets.

Looking forward: The goal is continue putting in the miles and hitting up the gym as much as possible till baby is due. The docs say the 20th of Feb is expecting date. We're hoping for a 27th due date. So I'm sure that means she'll be coming out much sooner then either the wife or I expect.