cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Part of today’s training run was a 3 mile descent down AZ 87 from Strawberry to Pine. What was that low distance whistle blowing this morning? Could that have been the excuse train? It id not ride close to my house, but its wail is distinct. It was [...]
Posted November 13, 2010 @ 10:11 pm • 1 Comment »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Thanks to snafu with the clock on my iPhone I almost did not make it to the start line (it made a daylight savings time adjustment although Arizona does not do that). As is I did not have time to check in at ye TeamD booth, I forgot [...]
Posted November 7, 2010 @ 9:49 pm • 1 Comment »

One step at a time. It was about 49 degrees at the outset, and felt good to be running again in sleeves. Once the sun poked out it was nice. I started out on my usual loop, but spontaneously decide o go in a different direction, and found a nice new shortcut that removes some [...]
Posted November 2, 2010 @ 8:22 am • 1 Comment »

This is the giant flat bottomed divit in my training: Two Three weeks ago was my last run- 5 miles in Barcelona. Three days later I was coming down with something, on the long flight home (the last leg in a 29,000 mile trip in two weeks), I knew I was falling to the mat, [...]
Posted October 30, 2010 @ 9:57 am • 2 Comments »

After breakfast and a walk with my local friend Cyprien, I had a good sense this would be a great route- mostly flat and a lot of visual stimuli to occupy the mind. There was some sort of rock concert going on at the stadium across the river, lots of colorful people strolling about! Given [...]
Posted September 25, 2010 @ 12:43 am • 2 Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It’s upside down here in Australia. Or maybe I am. I landed this morning (which technically is yesterday afternoon) in Brisbane, Australia, after a 25 hour plus jaunt the included a bus ride to San Francisco airport, a short flight to Los Angeles, a loooooong flight (12 hours) [...]
Posted September 23, 2010 @ 3:02 am • 3 Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog There must be something about California that is good for me. Oh, there is an obvious thing, and she is the reason why I am here a few days for the Big Trip. But wow, something unexpected happened in today’s run. It felt good. I got here yesterday, [...]
Posted September 20, 2010 @ 8:39 pm • No Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by sarowen I missed the Thursday run, with all day travel back from Boise. Today’s training was for 4 miles, but I pooped out at 3, and at that I was doing walk breaks the last 2. I’m just not feeling any energy, but know I need to keep at [...]
Posted September 18, 2010 @ 9:31 am • 1 Comment »

I arrived in Boise today in order to be here for a presentation tomorrow at Boise State U. It’s my frst time in Boise- what a pretty place! The mountains were tremendous flying in. My original plan was to run this morning, but ran out of time getting ready. I’m glad I opted out, cause [...]
Posted September 14, 2010 @ 10:22 pm • 4 Comments »

I’ve got a new equipment routine now for running. Out is the iPod Nano with the Nike iPod+ and In is the iPhone 4, now using the RunKeeper app, which actually measures with GPS where you ran (I did get the new Nike+ GPS app, which some report is better GPS data than RunKeeper… more [...]
Posted September 12, 2010 @ 10:23 am • 3 Comments »