Month: April 2014

A good solid run tonight – right knee wasn’t happy for a bit in the middle of the run but seemed to settle out. I will have to watch that on the run tomorrow to make sure I don’t aggravate it before the WPS Half Marathon on Sunday. The shoes I am currently using on…

Wasn’t sure what was going to happen tonight on the treadmill. I got on with a sore back and a headache…after about 5 minutes both of those worries were gone. Whoohoo! I did my version of intervals tonight – 1 minute at a slower speed, 1 minute at a faster speed, 1 minute back at…

I did however forget to put on nipple protectors…ouch. I also forgot to charge my Garmin yesterday and it died on me a little over 2 hours in.  I run a running tracking app on my phone when I run as well as a back up but it is not as fast to check on…

Woke up with a headache, which is never a good thing – also felt a couple stomach twinges that I chalked up to being hungry.  So I popped a couple Tylenol to take care of the headache, had a quick snack and headed out to run figuring both the head and stomach were sorted. The…

Definitely a hard start to the run tonight – not much energy in my legs and my right knee was not pleased about something. It was bad enough I contemplated cutting the run short but after about a mile and a half I managed to get things to settle down so I continued on and…

I decided that tonight I should try a mid length run at near the pace I need to run at to hit my half marathon PR on the Winnipeg Police Service half marathon in a week and a half. I ran the first hour without stopping at 7.5 mph before taking a 1 minute walk.…

Since I got into the Dopey Challenge through early registration as an Annual Passholder and the weather finally turned nice enough to run outside, I figured I would give myself a bit of a challenge over the Easter long weekend. I had 4 days off work and was able to get out and run. So…

Decent run on the treadmill tonight even with a headache plaguing me through most of it. I didn’t want to push too hard after putting in over 30 miles over the weekend – plus I repaired my treadmill on Friday and I wanted to make sure it was solidly functional before I tried to kill…

The warranty parts for my old treadmill showed up on Wednesday and since I was off work today I got a chance to fix the machine.  Ended up getting a new breaker, on/off switch, power cord socket, some power cabling (that had gotten crispy), a new motor control board (that had gotten kinda smoky) a…

Whoohooo – 4 day weekend!!! And so far I am on track to get 4 runs in outside this weekend.  I will be doing 4.4 mile laps during the runs – 1 lap today, 2 tomorrow, 3 Sunday and ? Monday. On Monday I want to do 3 laps for sure but maybe more if…