mellymell: (homer running)
I ran today. I figured I should take advantage of blue sky while I could. I did run 5/walk 1 minute intervals since if I was being honest with myself, that's about what I was doing the couple of times I ran in December. It was cold, but we were well equipped. Jonah actually kept his hat and mittens on the whole time, but his hands were still a bit chilly when we were done. I wore gloves and some of my new compression gear and felt comfortable for the entire run. I did get a couple of blasts of wind that really knocked me back a bit. It's really blowing hard out there, but in sporadic gusts. My time was slower and I didn't cover as much ground as I was the last few times I ran, but I'm not going to beat myself up about having to backtrack in my training. At least I did something. I must say, I also had to stop at least 5 times to pick up a sippy cup that was dropped overboard and I stopped briefly to get our gloves on. So, maybe I wouldn't have been so far off had I factored those things in. I'm also resetting my week count. I didn't run enough in the past two months to really count those weeks, so I'm just going to start over. New year, fresh start.

I have just 17 days before the Zoo Run Run 5k. I've registered and there's no way I'm backing out. But, there's also no way I'll be to a point in my training where I'll be running a 5k. But I'm going to try to run as much of it as I can. Unfortunately, I figured out that it's on the same day that we scheduled the Smial book discussion of Book 1 of FOTR. It makes me a sad panda to miss out on that, but I don't want to half ass the race to try to make both events and I committed to it first.

As far as running resolutions:
1. Finish my 5k training
2. Run at least three 5k races this year (maybe more)
3. Work on my times and endurance and try to get down to a 30 min or less 5k, then think about adding more distance.

If I accomplish these things, maybe I can think about working towards a 10k. Then I can cross off another thing on the 43 things.

Now to go heat up some minestrone. My second breakfast wore off shortly after my run.
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I'm going to try to keep track of the movies I've seen this year. I can't promise to do an in depth review of each one, but I will try to at least mention it. I'm going to do the same for the books I read. I hope to see a lot more movies (and with a Netflix subscription, that shouldn't be difficult as long as we keep up with it) and read a lot more books this year. I did better last year than I have, perhaps ever, but there's a lot more fiction I'd like to read this year, since I broke my streak of reading nothing but non-fiction last year.

Now, on to the two movies I've seen so far this year. I'll try to always put these behind a cut since I don't intend to be careful about spoilers.

Burn After Reading )

Wall-E )

2009 movie count: 2

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