In the crapper.

My motivation is in the crapper. I havent updated this blog in seven months, and I really havent run very frequently since then either. I did a half marathon in my hometown in Missouri in June and thats the last race I ran.

My wife is pregnant and due really any day now. I am pretty anxious for that to happen and to get on with real life (whatever that will look like, once it starts!).

I ran once last week and havent run yet this week. I know I need to, I know I will feel better if I do, but just cant seem to make it out of bed and get moving.

An up side is that I have been commuting by bike exclusively lately and plan to keep that up for the forseable future.

seatbelts.

Polar Plunge!

This past Saturday I did the Polar Plunge which benefited Special Olympics Oregon. I ended up raising $5000!!! I had a huge donation the night before the event and it put me into first place of Individual Fundraisers. I was pretty stoked about it. The event was alot of fun and it raised over $100,000 for Special Olympics Oregon.

Ive been running pretty well lately. Doing shorter runs alot faster than normal, and I am feeling pretty good about it. Im not sure if I am gonna do an Ultra this year, but my goal is to break my old PR at the Run Like Hell half marathon. My old PR is 1:37.4. I'd like to see if I can do a 1:35. It'll take ALOT of work to get there, so we'll see what happens.

I hope everyone is doing great!

Seatbelts.

thirty-one on my thirty-first.

Today is my 31st birthday! I got up at 2:30am, and started running around 3am. I ran 31K (19.3 miles) to celebrate :) It was a good run, I was definitely doing a bit of a death march at the end. I was pretty wiped out from the lack of good sleep. Its hard to get up that early! Thanks to Doug and Mike for joining in and keeping me going at the end.

I am skipping the Cascade 1/2 marathon this year. I was gonna do the 10k option, but I missed the early sign-up so they wanted to charge me $45 to run 6 miles. I dont think so!

Good luck to Luvin, Pain Train, and J-Dogg on Sunday. I hope you guys have awesome races! Pain Train, I hope you PR the heck outta that 10K.

Seatbelts.