For the 1 or 2 people who actually wander by here, I’m not going to be posting every little puny workout (cause they might be little and puny) and will aim for more of a weekly wrap-up. I’m not in training for anything specific except the biggest race- life and health.

I am thinking about running the Runner’s Den 10k in early February, maybe a Grand Canyon hike with friends in March, and cracy enough, some others are trying to talk me into the Las Palomas Sprint Tri-athalon in April… but if you think ihaterunning then you have to know i reallyreallyreallydespiseswimming and not only that, dont have any place to practice.

Variety is it.

For catch up, yesterday I did the 3 miles of the Ralls Road loop, its got those killer steep hills you get coming and going. Felt good, but sore to finish. But I did.

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I don’t want to jump to any conclusions after a new running program that consists of 2 runs so far, but I am happy with better lower average blood glucose levels. My 30 day average (which was about what it was the last 2 months at least) was 166, and in the last 14 days, its down to 137.

This might be some positive reinforcement

The engine on the Excuse Chain was steamed up and ready to roll through today, and then my friend @soul4real shamed me on Facebook (from what I can tell she was watching football today), so I planned for an easy afternoon run. It snowed last night, but looked like it was lifting to just clouds.

By the time I got dressed and failed to get my MP3 player working (out of juice) I noticed it was raining,

The Excuse Train conductor was lifting a foot off the brake.

So I said WTF, strapped on my old running shoes, and left the iPhone at home, so was tuneless. Just went for an easy loop around the Strawberry neighborhood, nothing flat, lots of up and down little, but steep, hills. Byt the time I got out there, full fledged snow was falling in big chunky flakes.

So I went about 1.3 miles and opted to walk the last hill home.

There, put the train back in the station.

It’s time to get the creaky old body in motion. The last year has been a poor one for health, and I have pinned to my fridge my last Hemoglobin A1c score, a worst ever 8.3. A year ago I was at 6.0.

The weather here in Strawberry has been sunny and near 70 in the daylight, so it was beautiful for a jaunt down Fossil Creek Road past the Strawberry Schoolhouse and back…. really slow.

I am looking at some new tracking sites, tons of them to choose from. I have an account on DailyMile and tossed up their widget on the sidebar. I was also looking at MapMyRun.com which has an iPhone app– I really would like one just to enter log results, but the MapMyRun one is supposed to use the iPhone GPS to track your route. I messed it up today cause I think I pressed the home button putting the phone away, so nothing was recorded.

Maybe a hike tomorrow, or spend some time getting the bike in gear.