23 days to the Chicago Marathon!  And I biffed another workout...  The story of my summer. We'll start with the good.  Yesterday afternoon, I did have a great session with my personal trainer.  Personal training is definitely NOT a part of my normal training, but this year I decided to invest, and let me tell

24 days to the Chicago Marathon! My goal was to ride my bike this morning, and run tomorrow morning, but I didn't get the ride done. My plan was to be out the door by 5:30, go to Central Park for 2 loops, and be back by 7am, when it would be time to get Katie

25 days to the Chicago Marathon!  Writing daily posts is actually going a long way to keeping me thinking about my training and making the extra effort to get my workouts in. After not making it to the gym to swim yesterday morning, I did make it last night.  My gym has open swimming from

26 days to the Chicago marathon! Still honestly not obsessing too much about it yet. Just focusing on ramping up my training in these 2 critical weeks. In addition to the 4 miles I ran yesterday morning, I played softball last night. Running the bases and outfield is a great cross training running activity and

27 days to the Chicago Marathon, and the time for procrastination is past.  These are the last 2 weeks for hard training before 2 weeks of taper.  Time to get some good quality miles in... I'm impressed that I've been able to do 2 runs in the 16 or so hours since I wrote the

So, clearly, writing in my blog is not one of my priorities :) I'm gonna try an experiment here.  With only 28 days to go to the Chicago Marathon, I'm going to try to write a new post every day.  I give myself about a 4% shot at meeting this goal, but will give it

Running – 80.8 miles over 13 runs.  The number was only respectable because I had 2 long runs!  Hard to get a lot of miles in as I had 2 family mini-vacations in the month and a 12 day trip to Nairobi, where I only managed 14.2 miles over 4 treadmill runs.  Will need to

Couple of things: 1) With today's 7 mile run (http://www.dailymile.com/people/cenizals/entries/2733198), I crossed over 600 miles for the year.  Up until 2008, 600 miles was my high water mark FOR THE YEAR, only reached (barely) 3 times from 1994-2007.  In those days, 600 miles was a successful year for me.  I had turned up my training

Spent the last couple of days away with the family.  I really wanted to get a run or two in on this trip, but was sort of frustrated by the location we were in, outside of Boston.  It seemed that all the roads were either multi-lane state highways, or narrow winding roads with no shoulders.