Boston Training Plan Week 1 of 18, check!

Whew, that was tougher than I expected but most of the effort was in the mental anguish department. How to fit the scheduled runs around a busy holiday schedule? Between work meetings, lunches, Christmas parties and some more nasty weather I was still able to get in all the runs but in different order. Total for the week was 60 miles in 8hr 55min with year to date at 2099.

This morning was a short 6 mile 'recovery' run, originally meant to be the day 'before' the long run but it was switched due to our family get together. It turned out to be a tough slog on the treadmill, probably because the body was expecting a rest day and not another running day. Once I got through the 1st couple of miles the run went a bit better but still was harder than expected for an easy run.

The coming week is also totally rearranged so that I can get my runs in and not interfere with parties, work and most especially Christmas day! We're really looking forward to having the whole family together again for the week.

Today's get together was nice with lots of good food and family fun. Would like to have stayed longer but we had to get home so A could finish his homework project that he left till the last minute. He might even get to pull his 1st all nighter and still not out of high school!

Here are some pics of the new Havenese puppy. He's incredibly small and cute!

and he loves to play with the cat (who is the boss of course)
Nothing to do with running but that's OK. Have a great week all 4 of my readers ;-)