Feelin' Alive!

For the first time in months, I feel alive running again!  With the cooler temperatures, I've been steadily increasing my mileage and speed with relative ease.  Being born and raised in Arizona does NOT make me immune to the higher temperatures.  Many of the people I run with say it affects them too, but I can see not as badly as it affects me.  Once the morning temps dropped into the 60's (my ideal running temperature) I was shocked at how much better I ran!  I'm still tossing around the idea of doing the Lost Dutchman marathon on Feb. 19, 2012 but can't seem to commit quite yet.  For now, I'm doing some solid 10 mile runs on the weekend with my usual speed work and 5 mile tempo runs.  Life is good!