Author: ted

I got a bit of a late start this morning as I had to wait for some lightning to pass and then needed to confirm that I wasn’t going to get caught out again by the next storm like happened a couple weeks ago. After putting out some speed last night my legs really weren’t…

I ended up missing out on a planned run last night as we took our son out for supper for his 9th birthday. By the time we got back and got the kids to bed, I had no energy left for running. So I figured I needed to get some running done tonight even though we did…

Ok – time to get focused again! The last of the house guests and family / friend visits, etc are done for the summer. For a while I was doing ok at handling both but in the end the running slid (but at least 2 weekends ago was solid with 13.1 and 19.1 miles on Saturday…

It has been tough getting runs in the past few weeks due to various visitors and house guests and tonight was no exception. The summer heat can limit runs but the socializing this summer seems to be doing more damage! Tonight was no exception but I forced myself to get in 5 of my planned…

When I woke up this morning my left ankle was bugging the crap out of me so I didn’t want to run on it. Instead I got in the pool for 45 minutes and did some laps as well as several sets of resistance exercises. As the day moved on I also had to help…

Over the past couple days I have had a few different pairs of shoes crap out on me, each with their own symptoms and indications to let me know that they were done. The coincidental timing of the shoe failures made it tough to sort out which pair(s) were the culprit but with some trial…

I got up a bit late this morning – my wife got up with the dogs and let me sleep in for a little while. When I got up our daughter and son were just getting up and after waffling a little I asked them if they wanted to go in the pool. It was…

Yay summer vacation! Two weeks off work starting today – going to use the time to put in some long outdoor miles and sleep…glorious, glorious sleep. I thought about giving myself the first day off as a chance to sleep but I managed to convince myself to get out and get moving. I wanted to…

Yeah – so somehow on Saturday I managed to put a bit of a hole in my left shin…not bad enough to need stitches or anything but it did get a bit swollen and it was not pleasant to move around too much on. Man…my last few months reads like a bizarre string of dumb…

I have been fighting a bit of a flu the past couple days (had a fever on Wednesday) but have managed to get in my scheduled runs. Until this morning that is. The flu is now down to just a cough and I woke up around 2:30 am coughing like crazy and nothing seemed to…