Bad News. Good News.

The bad news is that I fell off the blogging bandwagon for a while. I blame a combination of feeling creatively empty and holiday hustle and bustle. However, the good news is that I did NOT fall off the running bandwagon. I certainly had to make some changes to my routine given our holiday travels and changing weather, but I stayed fairly consistent. When we got to my parents' house in Northern Illinois, we were greeted by 2 feet of snow. Since my parents live in a new development, most of the streets do not have sidewalks so I had to do some creative running. I basically ran on the street and did figure 8s around the neighborhood because many of the streets were too slippery to test my luck. On the second to last day of our visit, it got really warm and rained. While this created an "ice free" zone, it also made for a very, very wet run!

By far, the best place I ran was in Durham, North Carolina. We stayed with Paul's family and there was a trail nearby so I decided to give a shot. The hills were just difficult enough to force me to really push myself but not so difficult that I gave up. There was also a segment of the trail called the "Fit Trail." It was about 3/4 of a mile and every few yards there was a post with different exercises to perform. Most of them also had different apparatus in which to perform the various tasks - i.e. monkey bars, mini-balance beam, horizontal bars, etc. I just stuck to the running but I thought it was pretty clever. It had the aura of a Jane Fonda Workout video.

This week I've had to run indoors on the treadmill - BOO! I hate running inside, it's so boring and the treadmill doesn't really record my distance accurately. However, I did go to yoga last night. I really like my teacher so I think it is something I can definitely stick with - YEA!