Month: March 2014

I was happy to see when I got up that the freezing rain did not come through the night after all.  So I geared up and headed out for my 20 miler.  It was still icy in several areas but it was better than yesterday. Things started out fine and felt very good for the…

Got up early this morning to get an outdoor run in.  Still fairly cool with the wind but not too bad. There has been a bunch of thawing / refreezing going on and the paths were very icy today. I was fighting some G.I. issues as well so I decided to run slow and steady…

At least I didn’t trip… I knew I wanted to take the run easy tonight on the treadmill since I did a pretty hard run last night.  I also need to catch up on The Walking Dead with the season finale coming up.  So I figured if I took a solid steady run the timing…

I only had a bit of time to run tonight so I had to get my 5 miles done fast.  With that in mind I decided to push a bit harder than I have been to see things fell. I basically ran 5 minute cycles where I would do 1 minute at 7.2 mph, 1…

So a week into my renewed attempts to get my weight moving in the right direction I really haven’t made progress. As of this morning I was actually at the same weight or higher than what I was a week ago…but that doesn’t really tell the whole story.  Yesterday morning I was 2 pounds down…

I swapped out today’s shorter run for tomorrow’s longer run tonight.  I am going to be short on time tomorrow night and getting in a strong 10 miler would be tough.  So I took it strong and steady today for the 10 mile run. I only had 4 minutes of walking through the 10 miles…

Managed to get outside to run this morning!  I had 2 entirely different temperature readings for local sources (10 degrees different!) and one of them was way too cold to run and the other was ok’ish. So I thought I would give it a try and head out just to see.  I was in such…

Woke up this morning and the temperature outside was -35 C (-31 F) with the windchill…yep back to the treadmill again.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a bit warmer but still not great.  Might be able to get my scheduled 19 miler in outside but I will make the final call on that tomorrow morning…

Solid run tonight – felt really good.  I started with 7.2 mph and 9 mph one minute intervals with every second 9 mph interval lasting 2 minutes.  Did that until I hit 10 minutes and then did 2 minutes at 9 mph for every minute at 7.2 mph finishing the second 10 minutes with a…

I decided to take it easy tonight and not rush the 9 miles that I had scheduled.  I wanted to run a run with out focusing too much on time and just get lost in the moment.  This can be pretty hard to achieve on a treadmill but I think I did pretty well today.…