I Hate Running: But I am preparing to run my first full marathonin training...
Thu
2
Sep '10

Down By The Lake

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This was the first out of town run of the season (not even a week old)- I’m in Madison Wisconsin for a site visit in the planning for the 2011 NMC Summer Conference. Today’s weather was gray and moist, but the trail along Lake Monona was a great [...]
Posted September 2, 2010 @ 6:37 am No Comments »
Tue
31
Aug '10

Two in a Row!

I ran again. Second time this week– first time I’ve done that in…oh… 8 months? Sunday I did 1.5 miles for first time out, this morning I did 2.6, so at this rate, adding a mile per outing, in a month I might be running 18 miles a day! Ha. I just am going slow [...]
Posted August 31, 2010 @ 8:46 am 3 Comments »
Tue
2
Feb '10

Just Say No to Treadmills

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, [...]
Posted February 2, 2010 @ 8:03 am 1 Comment »
Sat
30
Jan '10

Rewind? Who Me, Run?

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 »
Sun
17
Jan '10

Ran, Run, Done.

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. [...]
Posted January 17, 2010 @ 11:12 pm 5 Comments »
Sun
3
Jan '10

Devils Distance

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) [...]
Posted January 3, 2010 @ 5:39 pm No Comments »
Wed
30
Dec '09

Snow and “I Cannot Run a Lie”

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 [...]
Posted December 30, 2009 @ 6:39 pm No Comments »
Sat
19
Dec '09

Running With Team D

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 [...]
Posted December 19, 2009 @ 8:14 pm No Comments »
Thu
17
Dec '09

Looping, Looping

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. [...]
Posted December 17, 2009 @ 6:21 pm No Comments »
Sun
13
Dec '09

Stopping the Train

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 [...]
Posted December 13, 2009 @ 6:17 pm 1 Comment »