Month: January 2014

I have been out of commissioning for running since we got back from Disney World on Tuesday – my legs were fine but both my wife are fighting off a flu we picked up on our last day at Disney.  I have had fever, sneezing, GI issues, coughing and chest congestion – all combined into…

The day started…well I was going to type “bright and early” but to be honest “dark and very late at night” is probably more accurate…with a wakeup call from Olaf from Frozen again.  My wife and I got up, confirmed the weather and started getting ready. A bit of a preamble – my wife hadn’t…

The day started off way too early at around 2:30 am when we got a wakeup call from Olaf from Frozen.  Despite probably only getting a couple hours sleep both my wife and I got up and had a quick bagel and peanut butter and headed out to the buses to take us from the…

My apologies if the following post isn’t very exiting – super tired right now after a very early start today – it may not come across below but I am extremely excited and happy to be here at Disney World and completely wired to have the races begin! So with that said on with the…

Basically did the run today at a steady 7.2 mph – I would love for this to be my marathon pace for the Goofy Challenge in Disney World on Sunday but I suspect I will be slower than this though.  But felt great and it feels good to be done and ready to roll for…

Solid training run in tonight – 3 miles in 23:01 – only 4 miles to go for the Goofy Challenge!  Pushing hard right up to the end. Very closely watching the flight situation out of Toronto – we have to go through Pearson Intl Airport on our way down and with all the delays, cancellations…

Strong run this morning – 9 miles in 1:14:32 at 1% incline – way too cold to run outside today so did my last Goofy Challenge longer run on the treadmill.  I have accepted that outdoor runs aren’t happening until I get to Disney World at this point – so I have cleaned up my…

Stronger run – no walking and got up to 8 mph for a while – if it weren’t for the headache I’m sure I could have gone faster.  Oh well – forced me to not hurt myself. Then got in the van and did a 6 hour round trip drive to take my Mother home…

Head cold kept me from work today – or least the meds for it did – lots of sleeping today.  Still off tonight but felt good enough to at least try a run.  Did ok – got the miles in but it was not a great run.  Still 20.5 training miles until the Goofy Challenge.…

Good first run of 2014 – solid 6 miles in 48:34.  I wasn’t sure how things were going to go as I have been fighting the start of a head cold all day and it has slowly been getting worse – luckily no sneezing while running.  Did ok on the treadmill but now that I…