Month: September 2014

Wasn’t sure how this run was going to go tonight. 5 minutes before I planned to get on the treadmill I dropped my table edge on right on top of my right foot. Stung like a bugger and left a mark… Luckily it did not seem to have any impacts on my run – I…

Nice slow and steady 18.1 miles this morning – no drama although I really felt how slow it was! That makes 38.1 miles in the last 4 days (48.1 this week) – the runs were broken up as 5 / 5 / 10 / 18 – so not too far off of a Dopey Challenge…

Had a bit of delay getting started tonight – treadmill Go button wouldn’t work. Going to have to look at that but managed to disconnect the wire for the switch and jumper it so I could get going. I decided to do a decent speed but not to push too hard. I pushed pretty well…

5 miles tonight – 33:58 on the treadmill with no walking – max speed was 10 mph and slowest was 8 mph. It felt very good with no issues with my knee or hamstrings. Nice! For the heck of it I decided to check where I was 2 years ago on the same day –…

Was just exhausted all day today – hectic day at work kicked off by an enthusiastic kazoo player at 6 this morning. Plus I didn’t get a chance to get on the treadmill until late today so I wasn’t sure what I would be able to do. I figured I would at least try for…

Cool and sunny morning this morning with little wind – perfect running conditions. Grabbed a small bottle of water and headed out to do a scheduled 13.1 mile run. I was a bit concerned that the run would fall apart as I had to fight a flu yesterday – massive headache and stomach issues. Luckily…

As I have been doing this blog for almost 2 years now I realized that many of my posts are really just my exercise log posts and other stuff I have written can get kind of lost in the archives. That and the exercise log posts can be mind crushingly boring. So I have decided…

Back in September 2012, I decided I was going to run the Goofy Challenge in January 2013 – it would be my 3rd go at the challenge but I hadn’t trained properly for the first couple. I finished both but I didn’t lose weight during the training and I knew I could do better as…

I got a bit of a late start on the treadmill tonight and was definitely tired. After much internal debate I finally forced myself to get rolling and I figured if I at least did 5 miles that would cover tomorrow’s run and then I could do tonight’s scheduled 8 tomorrow. It took about 15…

I did not know what to expect getting on the treadmill tonight – after the knee and hamstring issues over the past week I half expected to not really be able to run at all. Things ended up good though – I started slow and slowly increased my speed until I was splitting my time…