This and that and 5 miles too!

Yesterday I found out that I was the winner of a $150 Visa Gift Card contest that Amanda did over at  Run to the Finish.  How freakin' awesome is that?  She has a great blog!  I don't always do all the blog giveaways but this was certainly a great one.  I already have the money spent(oops) on running stuff.  I'll post the items here as I get them.  Perhaps I should wait until I have the Visa card in my hands?  Nah!

Three mile run on the agenda for today and guess what?  I did five instead - I try to be Mr. consistency and usually follow my training plan pretty well.   The reason I changed it is that I only want to run 3.1 on Saturday for Adam's Virtual Race at I am Boring.  Since I had five scheduled for Saturday, I just did them today and moved my three miles to saturday(and added 0.1) If you have not looked into it, you still have time to sign up for it.  He's even giving out prizes!  He got a great blog and he cracks me up!  Today it was cold out again - oh yeah, it's winter out?

On another note, today is the first day at my new job.  Unfortunately, it was time to leave my old employer of 5.5 years.  I am happy, though, to have a job in my industry with a great company and especially in Michigan since things are still pretty tough around here.  Hoping the economy will start to get better soon.  I do see signs of improvement which is good.  Yesterday was my last day at my old job and on the same day, they also laid off another employee that did what I do for a living and it really stinks.  I feel extremely bad for him.  It's one of those happy/sad moments.  I'm happy to be moving on but sad that this had to happen on the same day.

I'll finish with a little running joke I heard:

How do crazy runners go through the forest?

They take the psycho path!  Bada bing!  Sorry, very elementary school, I know.

Have a great day and......Keep Running!