Warmer Weather Finally!

  As much as I love the snow, I am looking forward to all the green leaves, filled with life, when I run throught he park.  I can't wait to plant a nice garden in the yard and get some much needed landscaping done!. The weather was much warmer this week and I sure got to enjoy some great runs outside, both in the neighborhoods and in the park.  I ran with people a lot more this week too than the last couple months, which sure made things easier.  It's not quite as warm as Miami was when I led one of the pace teams last month, but I will take temps in the 50s and 60s over single digits anyday!

Miami Marathon Pace Team 2014, i'm on the bottom left.

   I love to grow varieties of tomatoes, peppers, lettuces, and would just love some fruit trees!  I think I need to move to a warm climate so I can grow avocados, pomegranates, figs, lychee and jackfruit :P  Just being able to walk outside and pick them off the trees would be so wonderful :)  For the meantime, I am gonna stick with what I can do here in Ohio.  I have lots of thyme and chives growing in flower beds that i planted ages ago and lots of mint.  

Me and Sal slicing up a jackfruit in San Diego, June 2013

   I'm definitely looking forward to the summer races as well.  I want to pick the highly competative races this year as the main focus to hopefully motivate me and give me better chances of getting faster.  Higher competition = less chance of being in no man's land, some place I have been way too many times and it's quite a boring place to be for those of us that run there.  That's one of the reason's I like the Boston Marathon so much.  There's always, always, always people around to run with, no matter what your pace.  Maybe if I was an elite and slowed up enough I would be in no man's land, but at least have a huge crowd cheering for me.  

Summer haircut, finishing Firecracker 4 miler, 2013

  I also want to eat a healthier diet this year.  For me, that would be lots of fruit, veggies, and fish with some grains in there if needed.  I have going on and off a good diet for a few years now and want to just stay with it when I go on.  Always seems like one day a craving arises and then the diet is flushed down the drain once again :(  I need to stay focused and only eat what's good for me.  I know by now, through trial and error, several things that aren't good:  cookies, little debbies, lots of icecream, but i go on these stinkin' binges and need to call it quits.  It's high time to make some adjustments - Especially if I want to get any faster or not be on and off the porta john during long runs.  

  What do you think some of the healthiest decisions you've made were?