It's been a while...

It's been quite a while since I posted, and I've been feeling introspective lately with the holidays and new year approaching...so I'm back!

Running lately has been going well, the weather has not been helping though. Yesterday was a 5 miler, the actual temperature was 1 degree when I left the house, and the windchill was -21...but I finished my hilly long run and treated myself with a nice hot shower and a long nap in our fleece sheets. I have a 5k coming up this weekend, it's at a reservoir near our house so it's a treat to not have to get up super early for a race. I'm very much looking forward to it and am aiming for the 25 minute range. Not blazing fast, but a "post-college" PR nonetheless!

In the same series I will be running a 5M race in January and a 10M race in February. I'm hoping to run the 25k at Greenland Trail this year and hopefully my first marathon in the late summer/fall. I can't believe I'll be 25 by then!! Time flies...

Some additional running goals for 2009 are to run 1,560 miles (30 miles per week), run 1 race per month, and keep contributing to the 100,000 mile challenge.

On a more personal note, I've having a lot of dialogue with Chris lately about our plans for the future, my heart is set on living a childfree life or adopting a child someday and have been dealing with the emotional issues that coming to that conclusion have brought up. Does that make me less of a woman, less considerate, more selfish? Chris is also on the same bandwagon, but what if one day he changes his mind and I can't bring myself to join him? It seems that everyone around me is trying to conceive or expecting a baby and I suppose I just feel a little left out. It's definitely put my desire for another dog into overdrive though...see, I'm compassionate!!

On a lighter note - there are 6.5 working days left until my Christmas vacation, can't wait!!