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Today I began my blog, I have been running 3.5 - 4 miles 5 or 6 days a week for about 3 months and am hoping to increase my millage.

Today I hope to get some miles in this evening, I will be on a buisiness trip so I have my fingers crossed that there will be an oppurtunity to get out.

***Edited to add:

 I did 4.2 miles on the hotel treadmill. I would have liked to go outside especially here in sunny California but time ran short.

Tonight I don't think I allowed myself enough time after eating before running. PF Changs was really good, but I tell you what belching that stuff took the spring out of my step.

 Tonight was 3.5 really nasty miles. I took it easy not wanting to stir up what I had consumed earlier. I must make a mental note to eat less or wait longer before running. :)

Today I didn't have a lot of time to run so I decided to do a half a mile warm up and then see how fast I could do 2 mile. I ran as hard as I thought I could handle. At the end of the 2 miles I was not as worn out as I thought I should be. I probably should have increased my pace a little more. I am super excited, a few months ago that pace would have lasted maybe 5 minutes, now I can do 2 miles straight of it. Whoa!!!

 My other motivation for making today a short day is that it seems that I need to get my feet used to shoes. I have worn today's shoes once before and had blister issues. I wore them around the house and today they felt really good. I didn't want to push the distance just incase a blister started to form. All was well and next time I will take the shoes out for a normal distance run.

Decided to get out with the dog this evening. When I first started running I thought it was really too cold but after about 10 minutes it was just about perfect. What a great evening to get out. I felt really strong and even decided to do a little off-road on a local trail that is about 1 mile long.

 All in all it was a good evening of running. I would have liked to do more miles but I have a take home test to work on. BOOO!

Today was another perfect evening for a run. Again cold to start but after I got going the temperature was perfect. The dog went with me again tonight, sadly I ran him to close to some goat heads and he got a few in his paws. We were able to pick them out and he was happy and ready to run some more. I let the dog set the pace today, we started at what was for me nearly a sprint but soon we were going at a pretty smooth pace.

 I need to start planning some longer runs, these 3.5ish runs are starting to get done a little to quickly. I never thought I would be thinking this way. I hate running, I have always hated running. HA HA