Oh neat! Thanks for the info!

Your friend is built different. More power to him because I could never!

I know a decent amount of people treat winter as their off season, choosing to do maintenance runs as opposed to rigorous training, perhaps moving indoors to do treadmill work as opposed to braving the elements, etc. I’m curious if anyone out there does the opposite and treats the SUMMER as their off season, putting in their heaviest work in the colder months of the year. As someone who is very anti-warm weather, I think this is the plan I want to go with–keep it light and don’t engage in any running after 9AM from May to September, but go all out with long runs, speed work, etc when Mother Nature isn’t actively trying to burn me alive. Thoughts?

Also on the topic, can anyone point me in the direction towards some late winter/early spring half marathons and marathons I can sign up for someday? I’m not running those distances yet, but it’d be a nice goal to get to in 2025.

I bought my first pair of shoes from Saucony and I’m SO excited to run in them! They’re Cohesion 15s which the internet has deemed to be budget trainers, so I realize they aren’t super fancy. They’re my first pair of genuine running shoes though—definitely a step-up from the no-name generic sneakers from Sears (yes, Sears) I ran my first 5K in earlier this month.