Unsurprisingly, I went out for a run today. The surprising part is that I also ran yesterday, so it would appear that I'm breaking my own rules. Well, I actually found a loophole. There's an elementary school about 100 feet from my house, and I realized that if I just go run on the grass, I can pull off running two days in a row. That knowledge should come in handy throughout the next few weeks. I'm hoping to put in a sub-20-minute 3-mile run this week. That's still not fast enough, honestly, but it should be a good precursor to a fast 3.1.

I was reading through some blogs the other day when I came across this list of recommendations on Chuckie V's triathlon blog (I figure that's appropriate since I'm a cyclist trying to figure out how to run again), and read this interesting bulleted list he wrote up. I didn't think it all applied to me, but there were a few points that seemed rather pertinent. I figured I'd share the ones I liked with the vast throngs who continue to check my blog on a minute-by-minute basis (I'm not really having hallucinations, don't worry). So here they are:

• "Train for your worst possible day, not the one you hope to have"

• "Train to want to be done"

• "Train to suffer"

• "Train to gut it out"

• "Train to resist fatigue"