Nate slept through the night!!!!  He went to bed around 8:45 and slept till about 5:15 this morning!  Now, I know some of you wouldn’t call that sleeping through the night, but I am an early bird (or at least used to be before I had Nate and became sleep deprived).  So, 5:15 isn’t that much earlier then I would wake up before I had him.  I hope this continues and wasn’t just a fluke.

After I fed him, I put him back to bed at 5:30, then went and laid in bed for another 15 minutes.   My alarm went off and I got up, slipped into some running gear, grabbed Riley, and we were out the door for a run.  This is my plan for when Nate does sleep through the night.  Go and run with Riley after feeding Nate.  It worked today.  The run was short, only 18 minutes – about 1.5 miles.   I didn’t even run the whole time, did a run/walk, but that’s what you have to do to get back into running shape.

It’s going to take some time to build my running base back up.  I’ve done it before, and I can do it again.  I am starting to get an itch for a spring half-marathon.  I just don’t want to get too ahead of myself.  Training for a half-marathon is very doable when you don’t have a child.  I am just not sure how easy it will be with an infant.  I’m sure Alan and I can work something out so I can get all the runs in.  I just wish there was a bigger running community here in Chapel Hill.  There are no winter training programs that I can find, which is funny to me since even in Chicago CARA has a winter marathon training program.  So, it looks like I’ll be training on my own again.