Week 3 recap - Happy New Year!

Week 3 is over. Obviously I haven't posted a lot even though the week was quieter at work.
Running has been going very well,- even with the dramatically increased mileage over the past 5-6 weeks. My legs aren't THAT sore and so far I don't feel any injuries developing.

Thursday was a lonely run New Year's day run around Chestnut Hill reservoir and Boston College. The weather was beautiful, a sunny and cool day which meant that at least there were 10-20 other runners at the reservoir. I hadn't drunk too much on NYE, so I wasn't hungover or that tired.

Friday was an elliptical day, which I think really has been helping me not get injured. After driving Shirley to work and putting in a short 7 hour day at the lab, I watched part of the latest Star Trek movie while riding the elliptical. Since it was the first Friday of the month, we went out to First Friday happy hour with TMRICE. It happened to be at Washington Square Tavern, so we hopped on by and saw a lot of the regular crew there. We didn't join them for Golden Temple Dancing, which if you haven't done or you don't know what it is you definitely need to try out at least once. I wanted to get a good rest as I was running 14 miles on Saturday, so we ended up being lame and heading home early.

Saturday morning I met up with Jill prior to TMRICE's (https://www.facebook.com/informalrunning) Saturday run to get in some extra mileage. 2.2 miles to meet her, 3 miles with her and then I broke normal protocol and ran 8.8 on my own to complete the 14. I couldn't find anyone in my pace this time with the younger Franco blazing his way with Anthony (visiting from NYC and leader of The Rise) at a 6:30min/mile pace and everyone else running 7:45s or slower. Anyways, after pissing off the planned parenthood protests for the 4th time that day - I got back not much after some of the 7 milers, and had a nice potluck style breakfast as usual. Hudson made a return appearance fresh off his flight from Panama and a few of us headed over to his favourite spot (T. Anthony's on Comm ave) for some Italian eats.

The rest of Saturday was super lazy - I didn't even go to work (?!?!). Shirley and I continued our 24 day ab challenge that was 50 crunches/50 leg raises/38 second plank. For the first time in the challenge, I actually needed to take a break to get through the set, and it isn't getting any easier going forward. Afterwards, we had a lovely dinner at our friends' place where I drank way more than I should during training, while it snowed/rained/hailed outside. Thankfully today (Sunday) was super warm so most of the snow has melted.

So as week 3 ends, I have been so lucky so far weather wise but that looks to be coming to an end. The high for this Thursday is a lovely -11 deg C (-19 with the wind chill) which will definitely start to put my dedication to the test.