I’m in Austin for an in Monday out Tuesday trip, but there’s nothing like being in a different city to make a run a little better. At 6:30am it was pretty damned dark out. Would this mean having to fight my hate of treadmills? But after a light breakfast, at 7:30 it was light enough, though [...]
Posted February 2, 2010 @ 8:03 am • No Comments »

Well, it has been 2 weeks of blissful non running, the shoes were sitting in the closet, still sporting the timer tag from the half marathon. I’d been doing some self beating up feeling like I had not run very strongly the whole route, and had to wake up and realized that all I needed [...]
Posted January 30, 2010 @ 3:44 pm • 2 Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This, for me, is the nice part of running. Being done. Looking back on it. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Conditions were perfect today, at the start at 6:30am it had to be close to 50°F and must of peaked in the 70s during the day. I was surprised at [...]
Posted January 17, 2010 @ 11:12 pm • 5 Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) The Team D training schedule called for a 7 miler yesterday, but I decided to cross train and did my work out playing in the snow atop the Mogollon Rim. Today’s run was 6.66 miles, meaning I did my map measured neighborhood loop (3.33) miles twice, [...]
Posted January 3, 2010 @ 5:39 pm • No Comments »

I’ve been riding the express Excuse Train, actually, maybe upgrade to the Excuse Jet Liner First class, not running one centimeter since last week’s 12 mile long run. I could hold out no longer, and avoided the Big Train today given it is cold outside (32°F), late (4:30pm) and it was snowing. But I got done [...]
Posted December 30, 2009 @ 6:39 pm • No Comments »

I’m spending a few days in Phoenix visiting with friends, and it worked well to catch today’s Saturday run with Team Diabetes, and it was the “holiday” run. This meant instead of going for a set distance, our group was send otu for an hour afterward were we had a pot luck holiday breakfast. We met/started [...]
Posted December 19, 2009 @ 8:14 pm • No Comments »

I’m trying to get this training back on the tracks, this week I got in my Tuesday and today’s 40 minute outings, doing a loop I’ve perfected (meaning I know where every stick, rock, and beer bottle lies in the path). It’s interesting to see how the running goes when you loop in opposite directions. On [...]
Posted December 17, 2009 @ 6:21 pm • No Comments »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by thomas.merton Despite my best intents, I’ve been taking more rides on the Excuse Train than I ought to, and my training schedule has been on a slide since early November. This week the train tickets were due to travel to Austin for meetings- I got a nice run in Thursday [...]
Posted December 13, 2009 @ 6:17 pm • 1 Comment »

Cue the music…. cc licensed flickr photo shared by miikkahoo Today was an unexpected day on many fronts. On Monday, I drove down to Phoenix to take my Mom to the airport. We got out in time, as it was only raining (alot, clouds hanging low around the base of Mt Ord); much later there was a [...]
Posted December 8, 2009 @ 8:40 am • 1 Comment »

cc licensed flickr photo shared by jypsygen I had two good strong midweek runs (under 10:30 pace) but I’ve not been getting enough sleep lately, like 4 or 5 hours per night for at least a week. It must have caught up because I just had no gas on today’s run. It was supposed to be [...]
Posted December 5, 2009 @ 6:08 pm • 1 Comment »