Gearing up

Well, it's been a good week of tapering so far. I've biked about 24 miles so far and ran a little over 5. I had planned on doing a bit more, but the weather has been bad, plus I started track practice this week and I am getting home later than normal. I have thrown in some speed and agility work with the track team, but I've been taking it easy for the most part. Track is good, but it's been mostly short stuff this week because we are all working out together. That will change next week when we split up, so I'll have just the distance girls and we can get some longer runs in.

I need to give a shout out to Fleet Feet for helping me find a new pair of trail shoes! I went last week and they introduced me to the Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 trail shoe. I ran in them at the store and wore them around the house and they felt fine. Yesterday I went on a small run that involved a couple of hills and my toes were jamming up against the front! So I took them back and they very graciously exchanged them for a half size bigger! I'm planning on wearing them this weekend, so I'm going to take them on a run this afternoon to make sure the are good to go. The folks are Fleet Feet are always very helpful with everything and I think it's important to support your local running stores.

Drew, Michael, and I are leaving town tomorrow around 11 or so. We need to pick up our packets and there is a prerace supper at 5 tomorrow night. We hear the weather is going to be bad (snow!) so we don't want to be late. I'm sure I'll have some good stories to post when we get back!

I'll leave you today with some pictures of my niece relaxing in a little beach chair - looks how her hands are grabbing the chair!!


Happy running!