Running into the New Year! Week of New Year's.

[Jolt]

I snuck in another treadmill run/walk as a warm up for yoga. After 3 days of x country skiing I am pretty sore, but I was able to do 3 intervals of 3 minutes of running at 5.5 to 5.7 mph. I know that's incredibly slow for most of you, but my only goal is to be able to run a ten minute mile for 5k right now. I only had 20 minutes to run/walk, so the rest of the time I walked at a 3-5% incline at 4 mph.
Cycling seems to be taking a backseat now because I am trying to take advantage of winter for the short time it's here.

Hey, if you get to be able to run ten minute miles for 5k you'll be at about the level I am, and I've been running a lot longer! Goes to show I'm just not built for speed (you've seen me ride...). I went for the usual half-hour neighborhood run this evening, and there were a couple of stretches where the snow wasn't cleared. At least there wasn't a bunch of black ice though (except along the sidewalk on my street). I just picked up a book, Conditioning for Outdoor Fitness, that I am planning to use to design some strength training workouts that will help with the things I like to do and therefore be something I will be more likely to stick with (I just don't really like lifting weights so it's hard to get me motivated to do it) and help prevent injuries.