Tag: running
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10Ks and kitchen misadventures
Yesterday was the second time I took a crack at at the Lakeshore Miracle Run 10K. As I mentioned after running it last year, it’s a hard 10K. I had forgotten just how long a climb up that dune it really is, and with not training at all for this run, I’m just glad to…
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A record month
The month of March has been a big one for me. Despite getting sick (again) earlier this month with the same thing I had the week prior to my trip to California, I managed to shatter a few records: – Most active month on RunKeeper (21+ workouts) – Best running month ever (42.1 miles) –…
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A record month.
Today’s 10K marked an important milestone for me: this has now been the most active running month I’ve ever had. I’m at 32.8 miles for the month so far (there are still 7 days left in the month), and I’m about 6 miles away from having a career length of 200 miles run on my…
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…and now it’s no big deal.
Last week I ran the first official 5K of the season and was pretty pleased with my time – 28:14, about 75 seconds faster than my time last year. It doesn’t hurt that the weather was a solid 25 degrees warmer this time than it was last time, but I’m glad that I was able…
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Runfos, freaky January weather-style
This week’s weather has been a little nuts. Tuesday, I did some interval training downtown. It was 50 degrees outside. I decided to head west, away from the main loop and all of its stoplights and traffic, and headed down to Kollen Park to run along the boardwalk. I’d watch people do it all the…
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2012 Goals
2011 was a decent year. I ran my first 5K and 10K, biked 100km for the first time in a couple of years, and got quite a bit better at soccer. I made my first batch of mead and capped the year yesterday with a bottling party at my friend’s place. We bottled 4 growlers…
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’twas the week before Christmas
Coming back from a vacation can always be a bit of a rough adjustment. Previously, I’d wrap four days off around a weekend to create six days off between two three-day weeks, which seemed to help, but last week I went for the full week off, which made coming back this week a little rough.…
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Time for an experiment
I have concluded, after the last 24 hours, that I’m sick. Not in a major, show-stopping, don’t-shake-my-hand kind of way, but I’m sick. It’s probably the beginning of the bi-annual sick that I get around this time every fall and spring when the seasons go through their major changes and my body decides it doesn’t…
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Good news/bad news
Tonight was our last outdoor game for the season against the Rangers. For the 99% of you who have no idea who they are, they’re the soccer team that keep flipping back and forth between the lower division (which we’re at the bottom of) and the upper division (which we don’t even want to comprehend…
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Plan C
The conclusion to my summer running goals was supposed to be the Park 2 Park half marathon, which is this Saturday. About a month ago I realized I was desperately not ready and set out an aggressive training plan. When a friend suggested the next day that such a plan might kill/cripple me, I came…