The final day of 2020 meant no running. A rest day. I met the goals that I had for December and the year already. It was a day to recharge the body a little, laze around the house, work on my 2021 RunLog spreadsheet, this blog and think a little. Maybe a little too much. It was probably just as well that I didn’t run, … Continue reading New Year’s Eve 2020
My running in 2020 has been a litany of injuries, experimenting, isolation, and even a little running thrown in for good measure. It certainly was not the year I thought it was going to be on January 7th. The day I ran 7.0 miles on the treadmill, with 6.0 miles under an 8:00 minute mile pace and felt confident that 2020 was going to be … Continue reading Running in 2020 – Quite the Year
Ahhh the last run of 2020 and it seemed to be microcosm of the year itself. I started off really strong, hit a few rough patches and had a bad stretch and then finished pretty well. When I look back with 2020 hindsight, that is pretty much the way it was. I decided to do the final run of 2020 down back, since it is … Continue reading The Last Run of 2020 – RunLog December 30, 2020
This is the kind of day that I would have loved to still be going to the gym. Running on the treadmill this morning would have been soooo nice. When I left the house the thermometer claimed it was 21*F, which isn’t too bad for this time in December, but the winds of December greeted me when I got out to the road. 15-20 mph … Continue reading Windy and Cold – RunLog December 29, 2020
Over the course of 2020, with all the anxiety around COVID-19 and the election, my focus on writing or blogging hasn’t been all that great. To say the least. There was too much going on and not enough brain cells left to process it all. Then add in back in the Spring that I thought that I needed to move on from writing so much … Continue reading Writing about running
It seems that COVID-19 and the election took the ummphh out of me since last Spring and I have gone off on several tangents with my blogging. However, now that my head is beginning to get some brain cells back, I am going back to what I know that I am passionate about — my running and running in general. So here is today’s run … Continue reading Coming out of the Blahs – RunLog
2020 in the rear view mirror is something to be happy about for me and most everyone else it seems. It saw me lose a sister, have our lives upended by the pandemic and of course, the chaos of a contentious Presidential election that doesn’t seem to ever end. So to say that 2020 was a year, that was is an understatement. While I expect the … Continue reading 2020 – My Year-End Reflection
Yes, I am reviewing another older shoe – the 361 Degree Meraki v1. V2 is out already and versions 3 and 4 have been slated to be released in 2021 from what I am hearing. It has been a while since I did a running shoe review, not because I haven’t been running and trying different shoes – I have. It is more that I … Continue reading 361 Degree Meraki – 50 Mile Review
Running in 2020 has been a challenge for most of us to say the least! For a self-professed running shoe geek, who at the start of 2020 promised to significantly cut-back on the number of running shoes this year…well it didn’t happen. Somehow or another I ended up running in at least 26 pairs. Fortunately or unfortunately depending upon how you want to look at … Continue reading Running Shoes 2020
Okay, when the house thermometer tells me it is 22*F and there is around a 10 mph breeze out of the North, that tells me it is frigging cold outside. This would normally be one of those treadmill days in shorts and a t-shirt, but instead I was bundling up and heading outside to have fun with Mother Nature’s choice of weather this morning. Yeah, … Continue reading BRRRR – Yeah Winter is Here – December 8, 2020
Well we survived the first N’oreastah of this winter. Yes, we lost power for a bit and learned just how good an investment it was to get a whole house generator last summer. What a difference it made in our stress levels during the storm. Luckily we only lost a couple of trees outback and a bunch of branches. Compared to many who are still … Continue reading Tired But Good — December 7, 2020
Sometimes a nice routine run is what I need. You know one of those runs where you don’t really have any lofty goals or times that you are attempting to achieve. The ones where you just let your mind wander and go places that you haven’t gone in years. That’s about all I remember about this 5.0 miler, well other than the slime that comes … Continue reading Clearing Some Memories — RunLog December 4, 2020
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