Today was a cross-training day, and I somehow convinced myself to drag my booty out of bed at 5:15 a.m. to get to spin class at 5:45.

Now peeps, remember how I don't like spinning?

Right well now I've done it twice this week. What give?

And I had so much fun in today's class. (Ok well at least as much fun as you can have with an alternating songs of extremely high speed or extremely high tension).

But the music rocked, the instructor was upbeat and the class format was solid. I felt like I got a great workout in.

So I think I'm going to have to reconsider my stance on spinning because seriously I was craving spinning by this morning.

Anyway, tomorrow's supposed to be a six-miler. I'm debating if I want to do a three mile loops twice around the neighborhood or head into the city and check out this trail everyone keeps telling me about. Depending on the weather I might go for the trail.

Check back tomorrow for the final decision.

Sorry I've been gone for so long peeps. It's been a busy few days. Here's a quick recap.

Monday: Crappy morning run (see previous post for details) and then ended up working a 12-hour day. Yikes it was long and made me really glad I worked out in the morning.

Tuesday: Had to cover an event in the morning so that meant I was back to my evening workouts. But it worked out perfectly for me because I had to take a half day because of the long day Monday and the early start on Tuesday. So I went grocery shopping, did laundry, caught up on two episodes of Lost, took a 20 minute power nap and then headed to the gym for an early cycling class. I was so tired I had thought about skipping the gym all together on Tuesday, but I ended up being really glad I went even though I wasn't a huge fan of the cycling instructor and her class format.

Wed: Back to my morning run on the thrillmill at the gym. Got in a solid 30 minutes, but kept the pace at 5.5 miles per hour because I didn't want to end up with shin splints again. It was a solid run.

Thursday: Today was a scheduled 25 minute easy run, but because Monday's run wasn't the best, I decided to push it a little bit this morning. I started out easy enough warming up with five minutes at 5 mph. Pushed it to 5.5 for the next five minutes and then kicked it up to 6 mph for the last 15.

Today's run was solid and left me feeling great. And that combine with reading this article from Active.com, inspired me to consider putting a full marathon on this year's race calendar. Originally I had four perspective halfs planned for this year with a few 5K's possible. But I don't know, I'm really toying with the idea of doing a full again.

I promised myself after my last one that I would take some time off (like a couple years) from the full because I was so sore afterwards and it took me a long time to recover because I got sick for the two weeks immediately after the race.

It's been about 1 year and 4 months now and I'm seriously considering doing it. I think I'm also being a bit competitive here because a friend of mine who's never run a marathon before is training for his first one, and I mean if he can do it, I think I can obviously do it again.

It's just a matter of whether or not I want to dedicate the time to it. It's something I have to think about.

Most of the snow has finally melted, but it's still freezing and not spring. Soon enough though.

This weekend was great. I was at home for my graduation party. My friends from CP came up and my mom made some delicious food. We ate lots of yummy food and hung out and caught up. Overall it was good times.

I've officially decided to move my workouts back to the a.m. I always used to be a morning work out person, but since starting the job I had moved them to at night. I'm not sure why, it just seemed easier at the time. But with my luck with all the snow and sometimes sheer exhaustion at the end of the day, I missed a lot of workouts this past week. So I'm back to the mornings. (Except for tomorrow because I have to be at an event for work at 7:30 a.m.)

Today's run was kind of sucky. Because it has been a week since I ran I thought it would be smart to push myself a little bit so I didn't fall too far behind. Now smart runners all know we shouldn't push ourselves after a bit of time off, instead we should ease back into it.

Well I wasn't in the mood for any kind of easing this morning. So I went out hard. Too hard. After 13 minutes I was walking because I had such a bad shin splint in my left leg. (And I almost never get shin splints on the treadmill.) I was frustrated as hell but kept walking because I was supposed to get 35 minutes in and I was going to be damned if I quit early. So I walked for a while, then stopped to stretch and then walked some more and then ran for a few minutes and walked again.

It sucked. I get frustrated with less than stellar runs too easily.

Tomorrow's cross-training, but I guess it will have to be at night because of the thing tomorrow. Maybe I'l hit spin class. We'll see.