Making the time to get your runs in is possibly the most important part of the whole Team in Training experience. Not getting your miles in during the training period means you explode spectacularly and publicly on the course come race day. It's still very early in our training schedule, so we run 2 miles three days a week and 3 miles on both weekend days. That's a pretty manageable 12 miles a week, but still, you have to carve out time to run five days out of seven. (I do strength training the other two days, so I am doing something every day. It's tiring.)
One of the several dozen things on my to-do list today was getting an oil change, so I drove down to the shop in my running clothes and explained myself to the bemused guy at the counter: "If it looks like you can get me in quickly, I'll run a loop so I end up back here. But if you think it'll be a while, I'll just run home."
"It'll be a while," he finally managed to say, so I started my stopwatch and set out for home. It was a nasty day, gray and raw and windy and spitting, and I felt weighed down by the rain jacket and rain pants, but I ran a 2.1 mile route I measured on gmaps pedometer in 24:09 for an 11:30 pace. So I got the run in AND got my oil changed, whoo-hoo!
I just have to extol the virtues of gmaps pedometer for a second. I LOVE this site! You type your zip code in the "jump to" box, and it zooms right in to your town. Then you can draw a route, and it will tell you how long each segment is and how long the total distance is. You can play around with various segments, loops, or whatever until you get a route that is the distance you want to run. You can even save routes and call them back up later. And it's all free! Who needs a $400 Garmin when you have this?
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