Day 78: Running To Eat

It’s Thanksgiving Day. Our family did something different this year and went to stay in a condo on Lake Travis near Austin, TX. We went down with my wife’s parents, and her brother and his wife came up from Houston to stay with us. It was a lot of fun hanging out [...]

Day 75: Back To Running

After a two week layoff after injuring my foot, I’m back to running again. The run went well with no pain in my foot. I probably could have started running last week, but I wanted to give my foot plenty of time to heal. I tried to take this run as easy [...]

Day 64: On Injured Reserve

If you read my previous post, you’ll know that I did some sprinting intervals for my last run and that I mentioned some foot cramping on the last mile.  Turns out that I must of strained a muscle or tendon in the arch of my foot because I can hardly walk on at times.  If [...]

Day 61: Interval Training

Preparing for the Half-Marathon last month, I was mostly focused on getting my distance up near 13.1 miles.  Regardless of how slow or fast I was going, I wanted to be able to finish the race.  Now that the race is over and I can officially see how many women beat me, I’m wanting to [...]

Day 59: Short Catch-up Run

Took a short run on an off-schedule day, Saturday.  I normally run MWF, but we had a busy week this week and I only ran on Monday.  So, I ran a quick two miles this afternoon just to get some miles in and let my legs know that they need to stay alert.  I hadn’t [...]