My New Toy

Woo-hoo! After over a year of drooling, I finally bought a Garmin. I want to go out and use it now, except that it's almost 10pm and I don't want to be raped (I live four blocks away from a high school, and a stranger went onto the campus this week and raped a student in the bathroom). It's so cool!!! The only problem is that it has a serial port, not a USB port, so I cannot connect it to my computer. I'll have to wait until next pay-day to get a converter. I'm so excited because I know it'll help me keep a good pace. I am getting slightly faster, and my short-term goal is to get down to a 12 minute pace comfortably, and maintain it for at least 13 miles.

I'm slightly saddened that I can't find a full marathon to do in June. They're too far. I did find, however, Dallas' marathon in April. That's less than 2 months away, and that's a lot of pressure (never mind I'm up to 15 miles in training). The last two halves I did, I maintained a 13:25 pace, so even if I slow down after mile 16-18, I still might make it to the 6:30 cut-off. I'm going to start training for it, but I won't sign up for it until March, just in case I'm not doing as well as I'd like. Then if I'm not happy, I'll just sign up for the half. I'll be needing a new race about that time, anyway.

Tomorrow: I'm hoping to go for either 9 or 12 miles, depending on how much time I have. I can probably get away with 12. And I'll be using my new toy!!!!!

Cheers!