Rehab Sucks! Yes, rehabilitating an injury sucks – big time. Yet, if you take part in sports, are active, or are simply alive and kicking, you will have an injury that requires you to rehab it at some point in your life. As a runner, it seems that I get to do more than my share at times. For me, this most recent Achilles tendon … Continue reading Rehab Sucks But You Gotta Do It
Yes, it is still Winter, although I did get lucky and get most of my run in before the squalls and winds got here. The temps were around freezing with a ten or so mph breeze, pretty typical for January or early February, but it is mid-March, so I am ready for this stuff to be done. It isn’t, and March is known for Mother … Continue reading Cony-Piggery 10K – RunLog 3/14/21
The first day of a new month usually begins with high hopes for how it will go, and today, I felt a sense of confidence in my running that I haven’t felt in a while. I hope that it will be a good sign of things to come for the rest of this training cycle. I plan to train for a faster 5K and set … Continue reading Procrastinated the Rain – RunLog 3/1/21
It is hard to believe that 25 years have gone by since a certain Captain proclaimed I had swallowed the anchor and retired from the United States Coast Guard. This is not one of those life is great after I retired posts. It got better, but it took a while to realize how good life was and could be. Twenty-Five years ago today was the … Continue reading Has it Been 25 Years?
The morning was another of those below zero starts. Luckily the winds were calm, and the sun was out. So it was cold but nice. It also meant that there would be no running until the afternoon. Just a walk up on the snowmobile trail with Bennie. Which the body is not a fan of anymore. It likes its mid-morning jaunts. I felt off starting … Continue reading Some Days You Are The Bug RunLog 2/13/21
I was reading Vern Gambetta’s blog the other day, and one of his recommendations was Out of Thin Air by Michael Crawley. When he makes recommendations like these, I take the time to look at the titles. When I did, Crawley’s book intrigued me enough to buy the eBook. Thank you, Coach Gambetta, for your recommendations. I have a feeling that at some point this year, I … Continue reading Out of Thin Air – Thinking about What I Read
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
Last night was a wild night and I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep. Not with the wind sounding like a freight train most of the night (which meant 40-50+ mph winds) and rain hammering against the bedroom window. Always in the back of my mind wondering when we were going to lose power. We never did, but that was one of the worst … Continue reading After the Storm & 361 Pacer 2 Initial Run
A pretty good week, the ribs are improving enough that I was able to start running on Wednesday and get a few miles in. Yesterday they felt good enough that I ran 3.1 down-back and felt pretty dense while doing it. Although last night while we were sleeping Bennie was between us and suddenly kicked out with his hind foot and caught me square on … Continue reading A Better Week – October 11, 2020
I took yesterday off, just as a precaution to make sure that my ribs and whatever else I damaged in that area were doing just fine. This morning I felt pretty good and decided after walking Bennie to go ahead and attempt a 2.0 miler instead of doing just one. The first mile was pretty good and the hamstrings bothered a little more than the … Continue reading 2.0 Miles and Still Healing – RunLog October 9, 2020
On March 10, 2020, I ran my last run starting from someplace other than the end of our driveway. Yeah, that was six months ago and back then there were legitimate questions of whether I would be here writing this post or not due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I have been identified as one of the at-risk populations due to my age. Luckily, some of … Continue reading Six Months Later – September 10, 2020
No big hoopla or fanfare, just gonna go from here and have some fun. Have you ever needed a place where you could just plunk down and share your thoughts about what it feels like to be you. The you that has interests, ideas, or thoughts that seem almost counter intuitive at times to everything else going on in our lives. You know that one … Continue reading Initial Thoughts
