Month: August 2014

When I woke up this morning it was raining and there was lightning associated with the weather a bit further south. I had 18 miles on the schedule this morning so I did not want to be well away from the house and have that lightning get closer. So with that I decided to get…

I haven’t had a chance to write up my runs through the week this week so I thought I would do a quick recap of what I accomplished (is hurting yourself again considered an accomplishment?). – Sunday Aug 24th – I woke up to a rainfall warning and ended up waiting until after the rain…

A comfortably cool morning with some mist and a few places where my running path was muddy and slippery but otherwise a great morning for a run. To get my miles in today I decided on a couple laps around the neighborhood and since it was a bit cooler I would try the first one…

Once again my hamstrings are aching – I’m still not sure if it is the chairs in the course I have been in or if I pulled something on Tuesday night’s run. Either way tomorrow is a rest day and I am finished the course so I am hoping to be able to work out…

The hamstrings in my right leg were bugging me all day today – I don’t know if I tweaked them during last night’s run or if the chairs at the training course I am on are messing with them. I suspect the problem was last night’s run – I caught myself not running properly on…

Today’s post is me tattling on myself for cheating a bit on the treadmill. Consider what is written below as me writing “I will not…” lines on the chalk board… I was in a training course all day today and my legs were pretty stiff from sitting all day and from the miles I put…

Just 3.1 miles short of a Goofy Challenge this weekend!  If I extrapolate out my Sunday run it would have been my beaten my 4 official Goofy Challenges quite well. Granted you run the races a bit different when you are actually at Disney World but still that is a nice confidence builder to see…

Up and out early this morning to avoid the heat and to get the run out of the way to clear up time later this morning to play taxi driver for some family members. I figured I was heading out early enough that with the lower temperature I wouldn’t need to bring quite as much…

I haven’t done speed intervals in the past couple weeks as I have been trying to build up a stronger steady pace but I knew tonight that I needed to really give a push. I started out with a minute at 7.5 mph, then a minute at 9, back to a minute at 7.5 and…

I really didn’t know what to expect on the run tonight. I’m still fighting off the last of a stomach bug and I was falling asleep on the couch after supper. Then when I took the kids to the park I could not run very well playing tag with them….man those little buggers are fast! So…