My second run of the year... I ran 5k, but it wasn't easy. I felt some muscular pain at the back of my legs, from my buttocks to below my knees right from the moment I started running. The moment I went back to walking, it was gone again. Don't know it, but it didn't feel like something 'serious', more like a sort of muscle stiffness. Maybe I should look for the cause yesterday: January 3th is something like Black Friday in the States: start of the winter sales. So dh and I went to Antwerp to do some shopping, and have been 'running' around in the crowds (i.e. even walking at a proper pace was nearly impossible, never seen so many folks around) the whole day. I must admit, I do not especially like shopping during those sales days, but dh always wants to go. Dh is much more frugal than I am, and he does all his cloths shopping during the sales period. But had I known that the city would be so crowded this year, I wonder if I would have gone...

Second run this week... I planned to run 5K (as I haven't been running during three weeks, I thought I would do only 3 x 5K this week before taking up OHR again), but while running my best friend and former running buddy drove by, and she stopped and we talked and... OK, I only ran 3K, but I had a good chat with my friend that I don't see so frequent anymore since her doctor has forbidden her to run (she has rather serious chondromalacia patellae - runners' knee).

Well hi folks and happy new year! Difficult to get out where I am as we are having freezing weather so all the pavements are iced up. Went out for a bit and did more than I expected but less than 30 mins which was my aim but it was something. Ran on the road for abit but that is risky even with my flashing armband Lets hope the conditions (legs/weather/work/family...) allow us to keep running.

I didn't have a good run either. I was supposed to run 3 miles but ended up only 2.4 Oh well, that's better than nothing. It was on the treadmill, and I have my first group run outside in the frigid temperatures on Saturday morning. It's supposed to be about -2 F at 8am when our run is scheduled, with a real feel of -17. I am not a morning person so this is going to be miserable!

Glad to know I'm not the only one struggling to get any running in at all this month! I was doing so well, I had only missed one run since July or August. I was all ready for the final run of One Hour Runner. Then that huge snow storm hit Portland, then Christmas & New Years happened... I missed a couple of weeks, and have only been managing two runs a week, none up to an hour yet. I was sore after two weeks of sitting out! I am getting back into shape, and thankfully the break let my knees rest from the increase in mileage during the OHR program. But boy, is it a struggle to run, what with very busy work days, it getting dark so early, and my 3 hours of commuting every day. I can't wait for our offices to move downtown and the sun to stay out longer. And we'll have no more of those huge snowstorms, thank you very much. Good luck keeping it going, everyone. I know how hard it can be to start up again after a break, or when the season makes it so challenging. Even though I was out only 2 weeks of the last 5 months, it took no time at all for my brain to go back to my sedentary norm of the last 12 years. All the sudden it was like, "Running? What running?" It took some effort of will to get out there again. But I am glad I did!

Glad to know I'm not the only one struggling to get any running in at all this month! I was doing so well, I had only missed one run since July or August. I was all ready for the final run of One Hour Runner. Then that huge snow storm hit Portland, then Christmas & New Years happened... I missed a couple of weeks, and have only been managing two runs a week, none up to an hour yet. I was sore after two weeks of sitting out! I am getting back into shape, and thankfully the break let my knees rest from the increase in mileage during the OHR program. But boy, is it a struggle to run, what with very busy work days, it getting dark so early, and my 3 hours of commuting every day. I can't wait for our offices to move downtown and the sun to stay out longer. And we'll have no more of those huge snowstorms, thank you very much. Good luck keeping it going, everyone. I know how hard it can be to start up again after a break, or when the season makes it so challenging. Even though I was out only 2 weeks of the last 5 months, it took no time at all for my brain to go back to my sedentary norm of the last 12 years. All the sudden it was like, "Running? What running?" It took some effort of will to get out there again. But I am glad I did!

Cassi, I think you speak for many of us with that post! I did a 30 min run today, just about anyway, it was mild compared to the previous week which had temps down to -10*C so there was no excuse for slacking on my part. But, I do feel better for it and I feel slightly less guilty about the cakes I've eaten over the break (well, my Garmin said I had worked off 360 cals!).