cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog To mix things up, and ease into the schedule, and heck, to avoid the drudgery of running, today I went on a casual hike with friends into Pine Creek Canyon. A friend who lives near the entrance knows the people that run the private church camp at the [...]
Posted October 30, 2010 @ 8:16 am • No Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It’s here, the night before the run. Everything is packed, timing chip hung on shoe, alarm clock(s) set. I’ll be getting up in time to get to ASU at 5:30am, hop on the school buses that take us to downtown Phoenix, and hang around for the race start. [...]
Posted January 16, 2010 @ 8:49 pm • 1 Comment »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’ve not run since last Wednesday’s long training, the 12 miler. This is, after all, part of the important “taper” down in training which Coach Dave says has been shown to be effective for the body repairing damage done by the months of training. I’ve taken a bit [...]
Posted December 28, 2009 @ 6:18 pm • No Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog After yesterday’s run, it was nice to change up the routine with a hike at South Mountain Park in Phoenix. Its been a while since I’ve done a hike, and today’s walk with my friend Sian (we could walk from her house). We headed up the trail from [...]
Posted December 20, 2009 @ 7:31 pm • No Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’m in Oregon on the first leg of a multi-faceted 2 week trip. I arrived last night into Portland, picked up a rental car and headed to Eugene to visit my friend Tim. He said the weather was perfect… last weekend. In first light, it was a promising [...]
Posted November 7, 2009 @ 11:03 pm • No Comments »

I opted to substitute some other exercise for today’s scheduled 40 minute “recovery” run– it certainly was a variety of activity. I can already tell I am getting wary of repeating the same local running routes (only so many ways to mix it up in a small town that has lots of hills. Anyhow, this [...]
Posted October 11, 2009 @ 10:37 pm • No Comments »

I made a personal substitution for today’s scheduled 35 minute relax run by doing some strenuous work in the yard; afew hours of moving rock, racking, and shoveling to finish off a project of widening and improving my driveway. No miles, but some upper body work. Back to the running thang Tuesday! And Wednesday! And [...]
Posted October 5, 2009 @ 12:10 am • No Comments »

I’m in the early portion of a nice long 12 day vacation up at our cabin in Strawberry. Yesterday my wife and I (and our dog) ventured out for an overnight backpack, actually not very far away, to hike up Strawberry Mountain (which we can see from our place) to camp. The hike in was [...]
Posted August 29, 2006 @ 5:01 pm • No Comments »

I am in San Francisco for a work meeting at the lovely Grand Hyatt near Union Square. I wake up early, yet even at 6:00 Am the small fitness center is jam packed, and the 3 treadmills are in motion with what looks like a line. Sigh, I resort to one of the other LifeFitness [...]
Posted May 4, 2006 @ 11:23 pm • No Comments »

It’s been a long, long time since my wife and I did a desert hike, so today was a cross training today as we did the new Sunrise Trail on the east end of the McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale. This is part of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, a refreshingly outgoing effort by the city to [...]
Posted January 28, 2006 @ 9:56 am • 2 Comments »