Where's my Swing

Getting back into the swing of things after Tucson has not been easy. I took two weeks off after the marathon, because, well, I deserved it - and I had to travel for work and it was Christmas. Last week was to be my first week 'back' and between snowshoeing and running I might have gone 20 miles. I'm garmin-less for a month so I have some sort of idea because I'm running familiar territory, but I'm not certain.

This week was going to be a 'real' week back, but Hoyt has been sick and has been home with me for the past two days and will be home again today. My intention was to get in some running, but that hasn't happened and it's Friday and I've now kind of taken the stance that this week is going to be a wash as well. I intended to do a 5k snowshoe race, but ironically there's no snow up in the mountains. Down here at 8500 feet, we're still pretty well covered - I guess I could go out and do my own race, but what fun is that.

I'm now weighing my options on signing up for the rest of the Winter Series we've done for the past three or four years, but we'll see about that. I could save more money not doing them, and with almost four weeks off I'm thinking there's no way I could come back to any sort of fitness by the 21st. Maybe I'll avoid races for awhile.

Who knows maybe the extended lay off will result in leaps and bounds in the speed and fitness department. I've devised my own 'training plan' for the next 12 weeks or so before I get into the big beefy 50 miler plan - but I'll go into that later - I'm not really all that crazy about talking about something this far out - I'll just keep moving along until I'm comfortable in where I'm going.