Ham Sandwich Indicted!

It's easy. After a five course meal at Handke's, then homemade lobster ravioli with a crab cream sauce the following night, get up at 6:30 am the day after Valentine's Day and run a 5K with your loved one and a girlfriend that's a crazier runner than you are. NB: I would NOT recommend drinking a bottle of wine AND a bottle of champagne the night before you do this. Yes, month number two, race number two has come and gone. DF has jumped on the resolution bandwagon (for now) and ran Last Chance for Boston with me a couple of weeks ago. Technically, it was a one-mile loop that you could run 26.1 times and use to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Or, you could just run the 5K, 10K, or 1/2 marathon, if your idea of a romantic weekend is somewhat less draconian. Things that were great about this race: -the one mile loop is great if you're only doing it 3 times--you're halfway done before you even realize it (but ask a marathoner if they feel the same way doing it 26 t...

...was how I was described by the woman "running" behind me single file on this past weekend's mid-winter Bataan Death March. Thanks, lady. I was on this ridiculous adventure because my New Year's resolution this year is to run a 5K every month. I figure it'll keep my occupied/in quasi decent shape (providing I actually do some training), and will give me a chance to increase my collection of performance t-shirts. Last Saturday marked the January race--the Fantastic Frigid 5K, squeeking in on January 31st. It was definitely frigid, but fantastic may be a bit of a stretch. The course was basically a 3.1 mile run through 6-12" of snow, with a layer of crusty ice on top. My goal, aside from not getting frostbite (it was 8 degrees), was to finish without tripping and falling into said snow. Which, for the record, I accomplished. It did however, take me just under 59:00 (by far the worst time I've ever run a 5K!!!!), since I spent large chunks of time trudg...