Running: Resuscitated

As some of you may have already gathered, I imported posts from my old training blog as a shameless move of false-advertising. We started this blog as a family diary and way to keep in touch with family across the globe. It saves me the time of emailing and updating each friend and family member individually, as much as I would really love to if I had the time.

Along with running, writing has become practice in which I take great pleasure. (I guess this is my way of justifying the vanity project into which blogging can quickly evolve!)

So, for fear of turning this into another training blog, the last race that I ran was the 2007 Virginia Beach Half-Marathon and since then, I haven't really run much at all.

I've thought about listing my excuses here but have decided to spare you all.

I'm almost afraid to say it (for fear of jinxing the progress), but I'm happy to say that I'm on my 6th straight week of running. The goal markers have been conservative and I'd like to keep it that way.

• 4-5 Days of Running / Week
• 3-4 Days of 30 to 45 minutes Runs
• 0-1 Day 45-60 minute Runs

Let's not venture into pace at this point. I'm slow. But that's ok. The benefits outweigh pride on this - Among other things, I'm much more energetic and willing to endure a long work day on my butt. Finally, I'm thrilled that I'm hardly ever too drained to hang out with the biscuits at the end of a long day.

Finally, I guess I should get to the crux of why I've rehashed my running habit with you all (the little pic above probably gave it away though:

I entered the 2009 ING NYC Marathon lottery. We'll find out in June if I screwed myself by having to run it :)