I got distracted while I started talking about running, and forgot entirely what I was supposed to be writing about/what the title of my post yesterday was. So I started running, and I did a marathon, and my times were all in the 12 minute area — more 12:45 than 12:01, but still, 12s. Then, after I kind of stopped biking a lot (last year — wait for it — I completed a VERY SLOW century ‘with’ my son (he was 2.5 hours in front of me) WHILE training for a marathon), my times are definitely in the 13s — more like 13:30 when I do long runs. Yesterday’s 5k was in the 14s!

I’m not in it to win it (my dad’s marathon when he was 40 was LESS THAN FOUR HOURS, which I consider INSANE and have ZERO goal of) — but it was nice to know my time, and to know it was staying fairly steady. Now, even though I ran a lot of short runs in 2024, like more than 250 of them, I am just slowing and slowing. Make it stop!

I finished up at work and didn’t get to go to the museum with my family so now I’m going to hurry home and harass them into playing Scrabble with me, so I can get thoroughly trounced …