So let me start this blog off by saying I shot a video today that I didn’t like so I will re-shoot  tomorrow and this is also the second time I am writing this blog.Why? Because the first time around I accidentally erased it. Wow, you could say things aren’t going my way, but they really are. My blog break is officially over and it was a much needed break for me. Something told me I needed it and I am glad I did it. It showed me how much I need to be blogging. I missed it and I was itching to get back to it. Today I was going to put up a video and a blog on the same day but the video wasn’t a good one in my opinion so I will take care of that on my run in the morning. I’ve been meaning to put up a video for some weeks now but I wanted to take my camera outside with me and every single time I am ready to run, I don’t want to touch my camera. I’m sure some of you know what I mean, you wake up it’s time to take care of business, if you drag on too long you will get back in the bed or the you are mad at the world because you are waking up so early to rung syndrome. I know I am not the only one this happens to. I have to say things have been really quiet for me the last week or two it has been good for me just to be able to focus on some things. I don’t really know how to explain it but everything for me was still going as normal but yet I feel totally rejuvenated. Get ready, because it is about to be a busy time for me over the next couple of months. Be great!!!

Monday today and that means weight room. I love it, especially once I finish. But really, I love it. If you leave the weight room and you don’t fell tough then you need to go back and lift more weights. I can tell how well the weights have worked on my joints and things when dealing with the running. It’s like it makes me a lot smoother on the run. I don’t know, it’s just been a great couple of days. I’m a man on a mission and I am enjoying every step of the way. Four and a half miles tomorrow and thank goodness I can take my time with it. This speed stuff tries to make my chest explode. Be great!!!

What can I say, I was sick all week and today was better than I could have ever expected. 10 miles and I don’t know if I will go any higher until the race on May 16 but another 3 won’t hurt too bad. I’m in a good place mentally and physically right now and I am gaining momentum. Things are great, I was sick and it is completely gone, no remnants of it or anything. This is kind of short for a long run but you had better believe it was sweet. I feel invincible right now. I’m not going to win the race come May 16 but I really feel unstoppable. The best part is, as the weight goes, it will only get better. Be great!!!

So I have to be honest, this week has probably been one of my worst weeks in quite a while. My health hasn’t been cooperating much all week and that has made for a tough one. It has just been bad but I have been working through it the best I can. Today was a short day (4 miles) and I was up early for it because I wanted to get up and get it out of the way. At the moment I am starting to feel bad. I really don’t complain much about it personally so if you aren’t reading this odds are you have no idea I feel like “crap.” I have a high tolerance for pain but feeling very weak is just that and I can’t do anything about it. I also don’t take medicine, I don’t like it, in my opinion it is just cheating. Yea, I’m weird, I think your body should be able to fix itself. Luckily, I haven’t been faced with anything major in my life (knocking on wood). Well enough about me feeling like I’ve been run over by a train. I will be in bed most of the day, I don’t have the desire to be anywhere else. That means I should be well rested for 10 miles tomorrow. Six weeks until the race in Green Bay and a couple weeks after that I will be making a cross country trip so there should be some good runs in places I have never run before. That could be interesting. More to come on that in a little bit. Let’s get through tomorrow first. Be great!!!

It was a long and interesting weekend for me and yesterday was a day that saw me in bed all day long. I caught some sort of bug Saturday during the day but tried to ignore it. I did for as long as I could. Well, by Monday, I had to stay in. I’m okay now as I think it has done something else for me. Fixed my workout times. I was up at 5 am this morning ready to go so I did. I only had 4.5 miles to do today which is never really ONLY. I have to say I am a little weak and only one other person knew I was under the weather until the rest of you seven read this but I think I will be okay. Speaking of seven, counting this week I have seven weeks until race day. I will be good and ready and it will be fun. I look forward to the race and I want to feel super confident when i get out there. I’m just racing against myself so that is the best part. Well, today has been a long one so far and I will probably get to bed quite early tonight, we will see. Tomorrow we get up and do it again, I will add a little more speed to tomorrow’s run. Be great!!!

So today was a weights day but lets talk about yesterday. So yesterday the plan was to do a little bit of speed work, not much by any stretch of the imagination but just a couple things differently. Let’s say 30 seconds can seem like quite a long time in certain situations, an extremely long time. So I will tell you in certain laps of my run I was supposed to go all out for 30 seconds. Well, I thought I would be okay and just a little more tired. Let’s just say it’s been a while since I have done anything like that. I thought my chest was going to explode. Then it seemed to make my legs a little (a lot) more useless over the run. Now, I had 10 laps, I started this 30 second run like I am crazy deal on the 4th lap and went every other lap. Now,  Every other lap means do it again on the 6th lap. I have to admit, I felt totally useless on the 5th lap, it was awesome. My sprint was not much of a sprint after while but I am sure it will get better. On Friday I have to just pick up my pace by about 20 seconds per lap, now it doesn’t seem to difficult but I think it is going to be. We will see. I will say this, if I can get comfortable with these Wednesday runs with this run like a maniac deals then I will be really comfortable going into May 16th. Be great!!!

Wheeeeew!!!!!! It is starting to get hot out here. The weather said it was going to be low 70’s around the time I went out today, I think someone lied to me. I should have checked to see the actual temperature. Now, I want to toughen myself up by running in a little warmer weather but I don’t know,I may need to back to the early mornings for a bit. The bad thing is, it was probably low 70’s, it was just the humidity that was slapping me in the face. It wasn’t a long one today as it was 4.5 miles, tomorrow I have 6. Not only do I have six but I will be putting a little more speed into the run. It’s going to hurt a little(a lot) but I am not in this for things to come easy, I am in it to get better and I think tomorrow I take that next step. It will be awesome. Be great!!!

Another long run in the bag. Today, however, you probably couldn’t have paid me to go another 3 miles. It was just one of those days. You almost couldn’t have paid me anything to do any of it but I understand that without doing what I am supposed to be doing I won’t get where I am trying to go. As Friday was my birthday and I went out I will have to admit I did not get my four miles in on Saturday. This is the reason I do not go out, I know it would mess up my workout routine. I am pleased though with how things are coming along. Green bay is about seven weeks out now and it should be really fun. I bet I will have some serious butterflies right before the race starts, just because. On another note, I have been doing pushups everyday. I swear they help with my running. New week tomorrow, be great!!!

Long, long day today. It started out with weights at the gym. Weights went well, I love the way they make me feel and I can definitely feel their help on the runs. On weight day it is hard to really write anything but I do need to make sure I am checking in with you guys every day. Things the last couple of days have gone as planned I am feeling pretty good about the near future. I’m taking this stuff one day at a time and bit by bit, it has really worked for me doing it this way. If I continue down this path I should reach every goal I have set for myself. Tomorrow six miles and I finally have my watch sitting with my IPOD, I’ve gotta start getting these times in. I will have no excuse tomorrow if I don’t keep my time. Well, it’s late and past my bedtime. Be great!!!

Another pretty good week was put in the books today. It is weird I am starting to feel myself really tighten up from the inside out. What does that mean? Just that, it is the best way I can explain it. My body seems to get stronger and stronger and with 8 weeks before the half in Green Bay I am liking how everything is going. It’s weird because I am very comfortable with my surroundings here and that is why I haven’t made any changes to my running scenery. I think it has been something I needed since I started back up and going to Green Bay for the half will be somewhat familiar to me since Idid it before. I will do it a little quicker this time though and that is kind of a good feeling. Including today I have been doing 10 miles every Sunday for some time now. I have really taken it easy on them because I wanted to get through the mileage. I think I can test myself a little more and I will do so starting with next Sunday’s run. I think my body can take a little more pounding now. I won’t say I am great at what I am doing now but am getting good at it. Signing up for the race was somewhat a spur of the moment thing but I had it in my mind for quite some time. I want to get at least two halves in before the big race in October, I am going to be doing these miles anyway may as well make a few of them official. The reason why it was spur of the moment was because I wanted to make sure I was ready for it. Well the day I signed up, I knew I was ready again. For me personally there is a lot riding on this race for me. It is going to tell me if this is for me. I believe it is so why be afraid to get out there? Not sure if I said it before but I should be about 100 lbs or more lighter than when I did this race the first time. If that doesn’t make me confident then nothing will. I am rambling tonight but I knew I would get in this mood sooner or later today so I waited for it. Every day from here on out I focus on getting better with a microscope. Pressure? No pressure. Pressure is not knowing where you next meal is coming from. I’ve been there too, it didn’t break me either. Be great!!!