Author: ted

If you have been reading the blog lately, you know that I have been having issues with my left ankle. Not during runs, it never bothers me during runs, but after the run and the next day it can be very sore and almost lock up. It also can make a very lovely clicking sound.…

As always – a big thank you to all the volunteers who were out in the cold today! Awesome work folks! Us dumb ass runners couldn’t do what we do without your help!….I guess that makes you enablers… Ok – to set the stage…We drop the kids to stay at Heather’s Mom’s place the night…

Yeah, so…if you read my Lemming Loop 2015 recap post you know that I had a bit of a head cold the day before and the morning of the race. By the end of the race everything seemed fine though with only a bit of a sniffle left. However late Sunday I was coughing like…

First up – awesomely run race again. Well organized and you can tell it is all about giving the runners the opportunity to do their best. Great management, nice course and fantastic volunteers! Thanks folks! Now about my run and personal experience… I was going in fairly undertrained. This time last year I had over…

Well – if nothing else it should be an interesting run… If you have been following the blog you know my mileage / training has not been where it should be (I maybe have 2/3rds the mileage in this year that I had in last year at the same time). I am also fighting a…

Yay! I managed to suck it up and get on the treadmill tonight! I did get some mileage in this weekend but not many – I was up most of Friday night / Saturday morning with stomach cramps and didn’t get much sleep Saturday night either. I ended feeling ok most of Sunday but felt…

After more slacker time this week I finally managed to get on the treadmill and put in some miles tonight. First run since the weekend – I don’t really have a good track record going right now – especially with the 12 hour Lemming Loop coming up in just over a week. It is going…

Not too long a run this morning but still pretty good – I tried out a few new things that seemed to work pretty well for me. First off I went for a 4.5 mile run without music – I had my phone and headphones with me but I wanted to see how I would…

After my running kind of falling apart over the past week or so it felt good to get in a focused run. I’ve done very little running through last week but had planned to run long on Saturday and Sunday…but Saturday was missed due to some family stuff and then I was feeling pretty rough…

Tonight was a good solid speed work out – alternating 8 mph periods with 9 mph periods. Finished out 30 minutes with 4.14 miles on the treadmill. Definitely a solid run. It felt good to get moving as I really haven’t had a good running week at this point. I gave myself a 0.2 mile…