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 [...]
Posted January 7, 2009 @ 9:32 pm • 2 Comments »

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. [...]
Posted January 4, 2009 @ 4:02 pm • 1 Comment »

Since I’ve been picking up a string of comments about my Camp Glyndon post, I set up a Facebook group as a place for former campers (counselors too, of course) to re-connect. Check out the Hey Camp Glyndon group. If someone has a better logo, please send it my way. That is the best I [...]
Posted July 23, 2008 @ 9:01 pm • No Comments »

A few months back i ranted a bit about the Medtronic Global Heroes program which discriminated against over 40 runners or ones with diabtetes more than 15 years for the Minneapolis Marathon. Who would have guessed, they are dropping these conditions for 2009 according to an email I just received: Alan, Thank you for your [...]
Posted June 17, 2008 @ 11:02 pm • 4 Comments »

I Think I Remember These Originally uploaded by cogdogblog. I am still trying to figure out if I want to keep running. I am pretty PO-ed about the Medtronic “you must be under 40 to run our race” flap, which might be enough motivation to train.
Posted April 21, 2008 @ 7:29 pm • 1 Comment »

Marathon Gear Originally uploaded by cogdogblog. It’s time to try and get some restful sleep before that alarm is chirping at 4:30 am. All my marathon gear is ready, fresh songs on the mp3 player. I am hoping to set out in just the singlet, mid morning today was pretty toasty warm. The gloves I’ll [...]
Posted January 12, 2008 @ 10:28 pm • 2 Comments »

Just got back from our Team Diabetes Carbo Loading pasta dinner, our last gathering before the marathon Sunday. I was proud to be among the 53 who made it through the 22 week training season, and we all remarked how quickly the time went. In reviewing the history, our local Team Diabetes is the only [...]
Posted January 11, 2008 @ 10:01 pm • No Comments »

I just want to thank all the folks, some I know well, some not at all, that responded to my request for sponsorship via some blog posts and twitter announcements. With an end of the year tremendously generous donation by my colleague Teddy (who I now owe lunch for sure as she lives in Phoenix), [...]
Posted December 31, 2007 @ 6:22 pm • 1 Comment »

While some consulting work I did raised enough funds for me to run this year without pestering my family and friends for donations, I was still hoping to go a bit above the minimum. So in turn, I appealed to readers of my CogDogBlog site; see “Ain’t to Proud to Beg (sponsor $$)”, and that [...]
Posted December 20, 2007 @ 6:07 pm • No Comments »

After the first Wednesday track training, the Thursday mornings look pretty grim for a run. My shoulders and upper body felt pretty tight, but had planned on this, and designed the day so I could run at 5, after work. Much better. Since it was bordering on dark, I relinquished to running some laps around [...]
Posted November 29, 2007 @ 10:35 pm • 1 Comment »