And another year's slipped by...

As I managed to fail to mention this time (ish) last year, I've moved my run/bike tracking to RunKeeper -- purpose built and better for a stats/map blog, which trails has pretty much always been. So I've got this former blogger, now g**gle, account here and again I'm rediscovering it at the end of the school year.  What to do with it?

折角だから、maybe I can use it for posting race reports. Not that I've done any races recently; in fact I've done very few these past 15 months, compared to before then. The injury I picked up in my (foolish, says hindsight) February marathon in 2012 made a total mess of that year: spent the summer trying to pick up and get my knee strengthened with added biking, then felt good going into the fall, but a combination of getting sick and crashing while riding trails meant I just barely managed the Monson Memorial (half-marathon), Talking Turkey (6 miles) and Hot Chocolate (5K) before the new year.

Then, having signed up for a May marathon -- in Buffalo, looked like a great fun race and excuse for a weekend trip -- and actually started a training plan through RunKeeper, I got sick once (cold, missed a week) and then again (flu? something bloody awful -- missed almost a week of school fever for 3-4 days, totally wiped out for most of two weeks, and lucky not to have ended up w/ pneumonia, I think).

So Buffalo gets to keep my $80 (but I'll try them next year maybe, as the date and location are worth supporting) and I'm now back to trying to build a base (40 mpw) before starting on a planned fall marathon prep. I REFUSE to give up -- there must be bad years, and I happen to have had two in a row. *Luckily* (it sold out in no time last year) I got a spot in the Mohawk Hudson Marathon in October (prompted by seeing Mike C tweet about registering -- he's had his own tribulations, it seems). Now focussed on building up for that -- it's a potentially fast race, and my last chance to break 3:15 before I reach the half-century!

If all goes well, maybe I should put in for Boston next year too -- after the attack on this year's event, I'll take back my pledge not to run it a second time.

And it's time to get back to work, hopefully so I can get out for a nine miler this evening. Peace, all.