Training!

Iiiiiiii am training again! Registered for the Fitness Half in NYC in April. I have convinced two running buddies (one here in Boston with me, one in Brooklyn) to train and/or race with me. I trained this week-- 14 miles Mon-Thurs at about an 8:30 pace. We hit the pavement this morning (when it finally broke 20 degrees outside!) and ran 7 miles + change at an 8:49 pace. It felt awesome! Pretty and sunny and definitely not too cold after our first mile warmed us up. I was running with my Garmin for the first time, and it was SO convenient to have the pace calculator talking to me and to not be running with a bulky phone and its unreliable GPS.

Thank you, stock photo, for setting such a glamorous pace. Not my pace... but I'll take it.

I think it's definitely going to justify its price very soon! Basically I feel very optimistic right now, and glad I finally got out of my dreary, weather-averse mindset I was in in November and December.
I was also sad, sad, sad to have wasted energy and money on Nike Women's last year when I couldn't afford to fly there-- stupid mistake. I know now to register for races actually near me.
Woo hoo! Looking at another 20-ish mile training week, and going to focus on pace.