Uh-oh

Regular readers (both of you) will be surprised to learn that this little piggy is supposed to run a 5k tomorrow night, the Corporate Challenge, in honor of a fallen comrade. The surprise would arise from my having failed to mention anything about running lately, but fear not, that's no oversight on my part. I haven't trained one bit for this run. I'm keeping my biking up, but haven't run even on the track for a month and a half. So, this will be interesting, n'est-ce pas? I thought I might get in a couple of days this week, but it just didn't come together. I've told everyone, in a very loud voice, that I'm running only at a training pace. Let's see if I can even accomplish that. My goal is to get through without pulling my ITB, and then get back to cycling.

Speaking of cycling, if you haven't done it yet, you simply must watch the Giro d'Italia on OLN. 9:30 eastern, repeated at 1 pm. Bike racing rocks as a sport, it's like chess at 25 (or 40) miles per hour, and OLN has been showing nearly the whole thing. In fact, they've hugely stepped up their cycling offerings this year, and I couldn't be happier. Now if only I could get the whole time-shifting thing down with this digital cable / VCR setup . . .

In fact, bike racing is a very easy thing to have on while exercising, you don't need your eyes glued to the screen every moment, and it has a very peaceful rhythm until the end (when there's a crazy sprint for the finish, bikes everywhere, and usually some nasty pileup), so I've been working nicely on getting my body back where I want it to be. When I took up running I laid off the weight training for the most part, because I didn't need that extra bulk. But then of course I laid off nearly all training, the muscle went away but the weight was still there, and after last summer's lack of training and sickness, I was a mess this winter. A blob. So, it's all coming back together now, and I'm feeling like my old self. Eat less, exercise more -- only thing that makes any sense.