Posts Tagged ‘North Carolina’

Sometimes you have to take the road less traveled. You’ll run into things like this.

I’m at my brother-in-law’s house in North Carolina this weekend, so I ventured around Asheboro after I saw some arrows on the road. I followed the arrows for a bit and came across a couple of mile markers. Apparently they’re on the road for a race.

I’m glad I followed them, though. I was only going to run 3-4 miles, but it turned into 5.2 to get me past 20 miles for the week. It’s the second time in three weeks getting to 20 miles (last week was very close with 19.6 miles).

I’ve been pushing myself a bit lately with getting out of the normal everyday runs. I hope last week’s trail race, Thursday’s mountain run and today are just the start of good things to come over the next few months. It’s a lot of fun to do this, and having fun is what running needs to be about.

I ran 2.1 miles this morning in my brother-in-law’s neighborhood in North Carolina to kick of 2011. While not much, it’s a much better start to the year than last year.

While on the run I captured the above photo — maybe it’s a sign that I’ll be OK for the Shamrock Half. Maybe. I’m trying not to think about that much right now. My focus is getting this ITB injury taken care of and be able to get back to 4-5 miles comfortably in the next few weeks before making any decisions. Things felt good today. The biggest issue seems to be my legs not wanting to go. I feel refreshed, but I also have that starting over feeling. Maybe that’s a good thing.

I have one final shout-out to 2010. I closed out the year with a short 1.1-mile run on Dec. 30 to finish with 1,009.1 running miles for the year. Thanks to Daily Mile for making the mileage so easy to track.