cc licensed flickr photo shared by Clover_1 I really mean it about the title of this blog. I have tried and tried, and I failed to come to a joy our even tolerance of running. It’s been a while since I made this decision, but am late in catching up. I ran 5 miles on [...]
Posted December 26, 2010 @ 5:23 pm • 4 Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Found this interesting book on Amazon (I was buying a gift for a friend’s birthday, she is diabetic, and the description of the book caught my attention. www.amazon.com/Born-Again-Diabetic-handbook-diabetes-cont… I liked it so much I got one for me too. I’ve been diabetic now 39 years this coming October [...]
Posted September 5, 2009 @ 12:34 pm • No Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Jack the UPS guy is making some regular rounds here as I have ordered these new running shoes, a pair Nike Equalon +3 and equipped for Nike+ as soon as the sensor arrives from another retailer (I ordered all the stuff on Amazon.com). A bit risky buying shoes [...]
Posted July 7, 2009 @ 11:44 pm • No Comments »

I’ve pretty much given up interest in Medtronic’s Global Heroes program, which purports to recognize runners who’s lives rely on medical devices (many of them, ahem, who run with Medtronic devices, aka customers): Running long distances was never meant to be easy. It becomes even harder when the body becomes a barrier. For runners diagnosed [...]
Posted March 28, 2008 @ 7:34 am • 1 Comment »

During my training for the last marathon, I had some wonderful comment and email exchanges from Catherine W, and a ton of support there. ironically, she works and lives in Phoenix though we never met (and certainly not on race day as she was way ahead of my time). She wrote me about a neat [...]
Posted February 29, 2008 @ 11:54 am • 10 Comments »

Yep. The running shoes are in the closet. I might be riding shotgun on the Excuse Train, buy to be honest, my life has been turned upside down (separation, move out of house, sadness) and now I live full time in Strawberry. Hey, its cold here! There’s snow today! Great excuses? Not really. People have [...]
Posted February 15, 2008 @ 7:40 am • 5 Comments »

Thanks for the many nice messages I got after announcing completion of my first marathon. It is a big deal, and I know that stat about less than 1% of Americans can say the same. I feel fortunate in that I had only minor soreness in the thighs for one day afterward, and feel great [...]
Posted January 21, 2008 @ 9:13 pm • No Comments »

Oh, the training log takes another hit this week. I felt great after Saturday’s run. On Sunday, as a different excercise, we walked about 3 miles total going to a movie and back (for what its worth we saw, “No Country for Old Men”). And Monday, I felt IT coming it. IT was that coughy, [...]
Posted December 20, 2007 @ 5:56 pm • No Comments »

Well, my small cold I caught my second day in Australia lasted the entire trip. I coughed my way around the entire country, likely sharing all of my germs with hundreds of innocent people. My voice was hoarse, and at about 40% there, not a good thing as I had 8 speaking presentations ranging from [...]
Posted November 6, 2007 @ 3:18 pm • 1 Comment »

I’m coming around to some slow acceptance of shin splints being a Fact if Life — running can be hard, running on hard surfaces can be very hard on the body of the non bionic kind. In a recent comment, John wrote: I am a physical therapist and found your shin splint troubles quite interesting. [...]
Posted April 24, 2007 @ 7:55 am • 2 Comments »