Just a few days away from my first race of 2011. I'm going to take a different approach to racing this year. Rather than focus all of my training for just a few key races, I plan on doing around 20 races this year. I'm gonna take a 1970's-style race-every-weekend approach, ala Bill Rodgers or Frank Shorter. I'll have to cut back substantially on the number of track workouts, tempo runs, etc. Not that I am complaining. As they say, "racing is the best speedwork."

This morning I cruised 7 miles in 49 minutes.