Today I was scheduled to run 5 miles assuming I am in the Level 3 group which is made up of experienced, consistent runners. Of course my hammies were still sore and tight from the bike ride so I decided to just go out and make a distance decision on the fly once I got to 3 miles. I ended up going 4 in a not particularly stellar time which is okay because today was supposed to be an 'easy' day. I'd like to say it was easy but it was not. It never is. My run looked like this (which you can't probably read):

My times were:
mile 1 - 10:16
mile 2 - 11:15
mile 3 - 11:37
mile 4 - 11:53
Not the desired result but that's what it was.

I did not wear my new shoes because the weather is ugly and I didn't want to dirty them up right away. In fact, I picked the only time during the day when it wasn't pouring rain so I lucked out there.

I have high hopes for this marathon season. I am going to do the miles, do the cross training and do the strength training and I am going to try to run a sub 5 hour marathon. 4:59:99 would be fine.

Oh - and I'm probably going to do another metric century on the bike on May 6. I think I really did lose my mind on that last one.

Addendum:
This came our schools Daily Bulletin Today. All I can think is WHAT??

Come to the vanilla bake sale after school on Friday March 31 to support the Women Leaders for the World program.

A bake sale for the Women Leaders for the World program?? Somehow that just seems wrong.