Will I Ever Run Again?!?

Topic: The Rain Stopped, Let's Run
Key Words: Monthly Mileage, Circle of Felix, 21 Miler in 17 Miles
Word Count: 387
Tomorrow's Likely Topic: Forget Stocks, Let's Trade Options

Despite her desire to rain continuously, Mother Nature met her match today - Felix Lugo. Any man who runs marathons with a USA flag on an eight foot pole is too bad to mess with, so our Earthly Mother relented on her week long "rain" of terror, and about 15 of us got in our usual Thursday, four mile Felix run. On a funny note, I think Felix has known my face for a while (I've ran in his group of 200 or so marathon trainees for two years), but he never knew my name (he always know the girls, and I haven't always been that social). Though he might forget it by next week, I've made the inner circle of Felix ... he used my name after hearing my introduce myself to a new runner! I'm one of the cool kids now!!

Since I've been talking about "desire to train" and since May is coming to a close, I thought I would document my past mileage and races to keep me honest. I really didn't know what I would find when I looked back at my "shoe mileage" note card (mileage, followed by races in that month):

November - 60 miles; HMSA 25k Classical
December - 81 miles; Houston Fit 30k and Houston Fit 21 Miler (which I managed to complete in 17 miles!)
January - 43 miles; ran, walked, and crawled my third Houston Marathon
February - 47 miles; Rockets Run 5k and Austin Half Marathon
March - 34 miles; Bayou City Classic 10k
April - 47 miles; none
May - 49 miles; Sprint for Life 5k and Race for the Pennant 5k

We start Fall training on June 9th, so most of the Summer needs to look more like November and December than May. I'm basically pleased with these numbers though; hopefully I'll hold up under the coming heat.

Since the month is ending, and since I'm sending a link to the blog to some new people, I thought I would list some of my past post (cause I may be too long winded for you to go back and read them all):

The Start of it All
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/welcome-what-can-i-do-to-earn-your.html

Financial
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/cross-training-your-portfolio.html
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/track-your-dollars-while-you-track-your.html
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/rent-vs-buy.html
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/ive-made-moderate-stock-purchase.html

Running
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/nascar-running.html
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/357-miles-of-running.html
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/felix-run.html
http://beating-oprah.blogspot.com/2007/05/im-not-content.html

Friday tomorrow! Finish the week strong!