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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Winte hibernation

Oh yeah! I have an exercise blog! it's a challenge to keep this up when I've fallen into hibernation mode. Between the dark the cold and the snow I haven't been biking at all and barely running. When I do run I'm slow and lousy at it. Not only am I not continuing to I
Prove but I'm clearly losing ground. I may have found a cure though. I've joined the local Y. The best part is that it has a pool. I've gone swimming twice this week. Only 300/350 meters so far but if I swim twice a week the distance will go up. I'm still trying to figure out how to run successfully on the treadmill. Boring! Not helped by my initial failure to bring my iPod and today's realization that my iPod is truly on it's last legs (I destroyed the controls this summer by sweating on them too much, and now the volume is so low I couldn't hear it over the treadmill noises.)

So we will see if I can keep up my motivation to leave the house by 6:15 three or four days a week. If I can, this will be a great way to make it through the winter with minimal damage to my training goals. I'm no longer expecting improvement this winter, I just don't want to slip too much.