Back to where it all began

I had some things to do at my mom's place in Port Coquitlam today, so I brought along the running gear and I did my long run back in my old neighbourhood. Poco is a small town with a population of probably around 50,000 about 30 km east of Vancouver. The title of this post isn't that fitting since I didn't start my serious running until after I moved away from home. I was however, on the cross country team in high school, so I did many of my training runs around the old neighbourhood. My run today was 7 km and that's my longest since my comeback to running about a month ago. This is going to sound gross, but man I had a major case of the farts on my run today! Just 2 more weeks until my first race of the season.

This is the last week of pre-training before I start training for my half. I was worried that giving my self 5 weeks of base training is not enough to do half-marathon training but I guess I'll just have to wait and see. The first long run in my training program is 7 km and that's where I'm at now, and I've been doing tempo runs in my pre-training at the same distance and pace as I will need to in the training program, so I think I'll be fine.

In other news, I was at the local running store yesterday and I bought a new pair of shoes to rotate in with my New Balance 765 that I'm currently running in. I bought a pair of Asics GT-2120. Here's a pic of them:



I also bought a Nathan hydration belt. I was going to go with a fuel belt due to the smaller flasks (7 oz. compared to 10 oz.) but the salesperson convinced me that the Nathan belt has better flasks and that they are easier to get out of the belt because of what the holsters are made of. I also like that there's a miniature pocket in the front where I can put my keys, and then a larger (but not that large) pocket in the back for gels or whatever. I don't need the belt quite yet as my long run is only at 7 km right now, but I did carry one flask in my hand on my run today. I'm thinking of maybe just wearing the belt with the one flask filled with water just so I can get used to wearing the belt and to get used to running with 40 oz. of fluids on my waste.

That's it for now, my next scheduled run is a 4 km tempo run at 5:00/km on Tuesday.