Month: July 2014

Hit the treadmill as soon as the kids were down for the night – I felt strong right from the beginning and kept pushing at a nice steady pace through the whole run. In the end I did most of it at a solid 8.5 mph. That felt really good and I realized as I was…

Right after work today, I spent a half hour in the pool splashing around and doing swimming pool resistance training (arms and chest) before supper. Since I had had issues with my knee yesterday I made sure to put a brace on it before I got on the treadmill tonight. I’m glad I did…it hurt…

I got in the pool for a little while tonight with our son – swimming around I managed to get some resistance exercises done which felt good. I hadn’t managed to get in the pool for a few days because of cool weather so it felt to get in tonight. After I got him to…

Yeah…I don’t think the beer and pizza late last night helped my run much today. It was a pretty tough push to even get within 10 minutes of the time it took me to do the same distance yesterday. That being said it was also my 5th day in a row of running (45.42 in those 5…

…and I only almost got run over once. By a cyclist not following road rules – that stop sign meant you sir! Good thing I am always watching for that sort of thing, especially on residential area intersections. Lesson in that – Keep your heads up folks! Anyway – no harm done and I wasn’t…

I am off work today so I wanted to get in a short run to stretch out the legs before I start tackling a bunch of odd jobs. My mind was wandering pretty good and my hips and calves were tight so it wasn’t the greatest run but it felt good to get it done.…

Definitely a strong run tonight – after a rough week of not feeling well and missing miles it felt really good to push pretty hard. I started off a strong 7.5 mph speed with an occasional bump up to 9 mph to test the legs and see where I was. At about the 10 minute…

I had an 18 miler planned for Sunday but with sleeping in and then the heat I did not get out in time to get it done. So I intended to do it later in the day once it cooled off a bit…but then I managed to cook myself pretty good while out in the…

I got up early this morning to run (was out of the house at 6:30 am) to try and avoid the major heat today – it was already pretty hot with the humidity when I started and when I finished at 8 am it was 29C / 84F with the 90% humidity…there was a very…

Right after work I hopped in the pool tonight with the wife and kids. We splashed around in there for a good hour (including some pool resistance exercises) before supper and then after a little time to let that settle they went back in the pool and I got on the treadmill. In the end…