It's been about two weeks since the last time I posted anything new.  Kimi and I started full out this week past week.  On Sunday a week ago, I was involved in the Gobbler Grind Marathon.  I was the lead cyclist for the 5k, half marathon, and marathon.  Thankfully, the leader of the marathon ran under 2 hours and 40 minutes.  That means I didn't have to stay out there quite as long.  It was quite cold that morning.  Prior to the event, Kimi and I searched on Craig's List to find me a bicycle.  We were just going to find something really cheap but then we had the idea that we should look for a quality bike at a great price since I plan on doing a triathlon sometime in 2012 (we'll see).  We ended up buying me a bike that values at nearly $1500 but we got at quite a fraction of that.  It was quite the experience riding the lead cyclist.  Of course it never goes as smoothly as one would hope.  I took a wrong turn early in the event and Kimi chased me down and corrected me.  Thankfully only one person followed me that direction and it was only two tenths of a mile out of the way.  That was the only real screw up that I had during the event. Everything else went smoothly. 

Following that 26 mile ride, Kimi and I ran 5 miles in the afternoon.  To my surprise, we managed a pretty decent run.  This week went like this; Monday, 5 miles; Tuesday, 6 miles; Wednesday, 6 miles; Thursday, 6 miles; Friday, 3 miles; Saturday, 6 miles; and Sunday, 10 miles.  On Saturday, the weather was quite dreary.  It was raining most of the day with temperatures around 50 degrees in the morning.  We made arrangements to meet with Jamie Burnham at the Vet's office in Miller at 11:30.  The rain was light when we began the run and the wind was at our back for most of the 3 miles out.  Just before we turned around at the 3 mile mark, the rain began to pick up and the wind greatly increased to gusts easily over 20 mph.  Thankfully, we were turning around and the wind was going to be at our back again on the way back to the cars because as the rain picked up so too did the wind change direction.  We had an excellent run on Saturday.

Today, we ran 10 miles and it was pretty nondramatic.  Nothing special happened today other than it being about 35 degrees with a wind chill in the mid 20's.  Thankfully, we completed the run and I'm greatly looking forward to next week where I'll be aiming to hit closer to 50 miles for the week (this week was 42).