Author: ted

Got up early this morning to get an outdoor run in.  Still fairly cool with the wind but not too bad. There has been a bunch of thawing / refreezing going on and the paths were very icy today. I was fighting some G.I. issues as well so I decided to run slow and steady…

At least I didn’t trip… I knew I wanted to take the run easy tonight on the treadmill since I did a pretty hard run last night.  I also need to catch up on The Walking Dead with the season finale coming up.  So I figured if I took a solid steady run the timing…

I only had a bit of time to run tonight so I had to get my 5 miles done fast.  With that in mind I decided to push a bit harder than I have been to see things fell. I basically ran 5 minute cycles where I would do 1 minute at 7.2 mph, 1…

So a week into my renewed attempts to get my weight moving in the right direction I really haven’t made progress. As of this morning I was actually at the same weight or higher than what I was a week ago…but that doesn’t really tell the whole story.  Yesterday morning I was 2 pounds down…

I swapped out today’s shorter run for tomorrow’s longer run tonight.  I am going to be short on time tomorrow night and getting in a strong 10 miler would be tough.  So I took it strong and steady today for the 10 mile run. I only had 4 minutes of walking through the 10 miles…

Managed to get outside to run this morning!  I had 2 entirely different temperature readings for local sources (10 degrees different!) and one of them was way too cold to run and the other was ok’ish. So I thought I would give it a try and head out just to see.  I was in such…

Woke up this morning and the temperature outside was -35 C (-31 F) with the windchill…yep back to the treadmill again.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a bit warmer but still not great.  Might be able to get my scheduled 19 miler in outside but I will make the final call on that tomorrow morning…

Solid run tonight – felt really good.  I started with 7.2 mph and 9 mph one minute intervals with every second 9 mph interval lasting 2 minutes.  Did that until I hit 10 minutes and then did 2 minutes at 9 mph for every minute at 7.2 mph finishing the second 10 minutes with a…

I decided to take it easy tonight and not rush the 9 miles that I had scheduled.  I wanted to run a run with out focusing too much on time and just get lost in the moment.  This can be pretty hard to achieve on a treadmill but I think I did pretty well today.…

Definitely a strong push tonight.  Probably my fastest run since late January and I felt great after making me think I could have gone harder.  Good confidence booster at any rate.  I will have to build on this. The run had no walk breaks and my speed alternated between 7.2 and 9 mph for 1…