Monthly Archives: January 2013

After sitting unused in the box in our living room for almost five months, my new Saucony shoes got a taste of the road this morning. I got myself up and out and managed to run a moderate/slow 2.29 miles on a fairly mild January morning. Given my long time off from any sort of running, I’m happy with this morning’s performance and plan/hope to make it the start of a regular routine.

At this point, I’m thinking to keep my distances on the shorter side, topping out at maybe 10K when I can get back to that, and strive for frequency over distance or speed for the next few months.

Morning Run – Riverside Dr. by mmelzer at Garmin Connect – Details.

I started this blog just more than three years ago, at the very end of 2009, and only kept up with it in earnest for 7 months (my late stage marathon training was automatically posted from MapMyRun). Well, a lot of running and other stuff has happened in the 2.5 years since I last posted. Most importantly, I got married and we had a baby girl (2.5 years is a long time). Running/exercise-wise, I ran the ING NYC Marathon in November 2010, participated in the Hazon NY Ride in 2010 and 2011, completed the Aquaphor NYC Triathlon in July 2012, and participated in a number of smaller races.

After a post-tri break and mild illness this summer, I bought new running shoes (Saucony Powergrid Triumph 9 in orange) in mid-August and planned to restart my routine before our daughter was born sometime around her Labor Day weekend due date. As luck would have it, she came a little early, just a couple of days after my shoes arrived, and they’ve languished in the box since, despite a fairly runner-friendly fall (hurricane aside). Well, a milder forecast for today sent me out on the streets this morning, assisted by our adorable little alarm clock going off a bit earlier than usual. My plan and hope is that this is the (re)start of something good.