Firecracker 10K: Race Report

July 4, 2010

Happy Independence Day! Our family celebrated today by running, eating, and napping. While Brady went with his high school running buddies to dominate a 5K in Delano, the rest of us headed to the Firecracker 2 Mile and 10K race. We ran this race two years ago and put it on the list of races [...]

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Play Time

July 1, 2010

Running for me was an evolution, not something that I started all at once. It started with walking on the treadmill which gradually turned into running for a minute or two followed by more walking. That finally evolved into solid running on the treadmill and it took quite a while for that to become running outside. [...]

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Good Week, No Race

June 27, 2010

In the end, I decided not to race today. It doesn’t feel like a let down because I actually had a pretty good week.  On Monday I ran with the Run Club. Mike has been a member for many years, but I rarely get to run with the group. I found myself on Monday afternoon with [...]

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Back in Motion

June 20, 2010

Like all vacations, my running vacation had to come to an end. It was good to get a break but, just like real vacations, it’s good to get home and back into the familiar routine again. I’m hoping that a slow ramp up with keep some of the nagging aches and pains quiet as I [...]

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A Lot of Nothin’

June 12, 2010

I’m in the middle of taking my first vacation from running and exercising. Since I started working out consistently 6 years ago, I have never missed more than 2 days of workouts except due to illness. Only pneumonia has made me miss a week. I had decided a while ago that after my half marathon [...]

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Not So Good

June 6, 2010

I ran my 7th Half Marathon today and it was by far my worst finishing time. Up until today, my slowest HM time was 2:15:48 which I ran in 2007 during my first HM. Each one since has been faster than that by a few minutes or more. Well, today was a new low. My time of [...]

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Pre-Race Thinking

June 2, 2010

The Minneapolis Half is coming up this Sunday. I’m excited about it because Mike is running the full, our son is running the half, and we have lots of friends who will be running in each race. No matter what race day brings as far as finishing time, it’s sure to be fun to see [...]

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Spam Problem

May 22, 2010

My blog as been inundated with spam comments, so I’ve had to turn on the comment moderation. Now, when you post a comment, I will have to approve it before you are able to view it. I know some of you have had to do the same problem and hopefully this change won’t discourage you from [...]

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Walk Training

May 21, 2010

The big news in my life is something that all of you are going to find so boring that you can begin yawning now. Here it is:  I’m learning to walk! And I’m really excited about it!
I’ve told you repeatedly that I am a slow runner. This space is limited and I don’t like to [...]

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Bad Example

May 13, 2010

If you are my age or older, you probably remember that Adam Ant song from the early 1980’s that goes, “Don’t drink, don’t smoke. What do you do?” I remember it well for two reasons. The first is that MTV was new back then and that was a pretty early video. There was a short time when I had [...]

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