My first one in a long time

I am enjoying a glass of fine wine tonight.  Ok, I have to be honest; "fine" is an overstatement and "a" is an understatement, but I think I have found another staple low-cost wine: the Robert Mondavi Private Reserve Meritage.  With a nice healthy dose of malbec - in the 10% range - it rounds out pretty well.  It is an excellent addition to my training program.

Wine in a training program? Let me explain.

I was browsing around the web, looking for some motivation.  I found an article on Active.com called Your 3-Step Plan to Run a 5K.

 

It started with:

STEP 1: Sign Up to Race--Today!

So I started looking for the next race - my first race in over a year.

I contemplated picking the Susan Koman Race for the Cure in Atlanta in May.  Then I got to thinking - why wait until May?  I focused back to March.  After a little searching, I found the Run Dahlonega (no, I don't know how to pronounce it), a nice 5K north of Atlanta. 

As it turns out, Dahlonega is the heart of Georgia wine country! So, I figure it would be irresponsible of me to not include some wine in my training program.  Ignore the fact that I am drinking California wine.   

And so it begins.  Right now, I am in the middle of a very lightweight Nikeplus on line coaching program, which will end on February 19.  I'm using that plan is to get my legs and knees working again.  I'll chose a 5K plan for the four weeks before the race, and see how the two plans overlap, and adjust. And then I am on my way.

But not tonight.  I've given tonight to the wine.