A few quickies

I bought a Garmin Forerunner 205 from Amazon. It is a rather expensive gadget but I really wanted something to replace my dead Nike+. I just realized the 205 doesn’t have a heart rate monitor…doh! Oh well, it still does really cool things and will definitely encourage me to run outside more. In fact, to help further encourage my running outside, I think I’m going to go buy some new over the counter Zyrtec. I have really bad allergies to basically all things outdoors, so if the pollen count is high or other allergens are running amuck my nose is running, I’m sneezing, and my lungs feel like they are about to collapse. It’s not pretty. And I really want to run outside because I was discussing with my roommate, you only run on the treadmill as fast as you set it. Maybe I can run faster and I just don’t know it because I’m not pushing hard enough on there. I want the freedom of just going outside. So…by next week I’ll have that!

Two, I did not run in the 5k yesterday because of the previous night festivities (my law school friends did an awesome bar crawl…we don’t have much time left so I thought it was important to hang out with them). However, I did run a 5k in the afternoon at the gym. I did it in 32 minutes! Which for me is definitely a PR. I really am excited for Garmin because it will make tracking my running easier. I have kept okay track in an excel log I keep, but sometimes I’d like to know what the fastest 2, 3 or 4 miler I’ve run was and I don’t know.

Three, I think I’m going to run the Chicago marathon! My friend Taureen, who I ran the Mini with last year, was asking me to do it last year and I said no, but when she mentioned it again this year I thought why not? I’ve always wanted to run one, and having a future BIG race keeps me on track with running (which is good for the weight loss), maybe I’ll even be at my goal weight by the race! Hopefully, Chicago won’t be having a heat wave again this year. It’s October 12th, so 7 months from now and 5 months after the Mini. I think that’s pretty good timing.

~ by jaimielyn on March 17, 2008.