Month: February 2018
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Finally A Nice Recovery Run – RunLog 2-19-17
After walking 2.5 miles with Bennie this morning down-back, I knew that I would not be running on the treadmill this morning. It was simply too damn gorgeous outside. Although I was seriously tempted to run the snowmobile trails this morning, but in the end I decided at this point in my life, it was…
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A Beautiful Winter Day – RunLog 2-17-18
After taking yesterday off, I really couln’t wait to get out there to run this morning. Well actually the 6*F slowed me down from heading out the door until it warmed up a smidge. Although Bennie and I did walk down-back for the first time in a while Looking back towards Blake Rd Hill Looking…
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Newton Gravity 5 – 50 Mile Review
I got my Gravity 5’s as an early Christmas from my Daughter back in early December and they have become my primary outside running shoes, when the winter roads in Maine are decent. That is why it took so to get them to the 50 mile review mark – the roads have been crap or…
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Running – 40 Plus Years Series – My Overview
There 40 plus years of running series is done – again. Two different people one with all of his life ahead of him and the other looking back on the life that was lived – the one constant through it all was – running. It has been a part of who I am all this…
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2015 to Now – Life is Good
As we get closer to the end of this forty-plus years of running highlights – that have included a few life stories as well, it gets easier, yet at the same time more difficult to tell the stories. I know/remember things better, but some of the memories are still too fresh for me to have…well…
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Happy Valentines Day – RunLog 2-14-18
Happy Valentine’s Day. Mary and I celebrated by going to lunch at Joseph’s and then got deserts from Governors to have with coffee this evening. We gave one another some candy and enjoyed the day together. Very low-key, but it simply is who we are – comfortable being with each other. Yeah, it was a…
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Simplifying Online Apps Again
This year is the year where I am going through and purging, getting rid of and simplifying things in my life. It is not just a one-time thing where you go through things, get rid of some stuff and then go back to collecting even more shit as time goes on. Just changing old stuff…
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Treadmill Long Run – RunLog 2-13-18
After staying up too late watching the Olympics last night, I was a bit groggy and really didn’t feel like getting moving first thing this morning. Unfortunately, Mary is very much a morning, get up and get too it type of person, which means that I don’t get to laze around in bed – it…
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Ice Means Treadmill Time – RunLog 2-12-18
Unnnggghhh yeah, a very nice film of ice on the roads this morning – no thank you. Walking first thing this morning was interesting, but not fun, so running would have been disastrous. I like our longer walk with Bennie, it gives me a chance to see how the roads are and decide whether I…
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A More “Normal” Week – Week In Review 2-11-18
Last week a bit more of a “normal” week, well mostly. A photo of our mailbox during the storm last Wednesday. I found out that doing my long run at the start of the week, means that it is much more likely to get done. The weekends are still focused on other things that interfere…
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Tired, Day Off and Good Run – RunLog 2-8 & 2-9
Yesterday, I felt my age and needed to take a day off from running and the elliptical. Yeah, snowblowing the driveway of 8-10 inches of snow on Wednesday night, getting up way to early for chauffeur duty, snow scooping the end of the driveway so I could drive out, then getting home, snowblowing the driveway…
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2011 to 2015- Life After Teaching
During this time, I went down the road less travelled and yes, it made all the difference. Even though some of you may have already read previous versions of this post. Since I have started writing on Aging Runnah exclusively, I have decided to clean-up and re-publish my forty plus years of running series here…
Harold Being Harold 