Day 502 – I’m Still Here

I can’t believe it’s been since August that I posted an update.  Since it’s been so long, I should probably recap the last few months…
I’ve stopped running due to foot pain.  I may pick it up again later, but I’m not going to attempt getting back into it until I have someone check out my [...]

Day 340: Three In A Row

I went out to Buck Creek for the third day in a row.  My tail was a little sore, but I managed to stay off of the seat as much as I could.  I ended up covering the entire trail except for the Technical Loop in about 1:20 and burned about 1300 calories.
I forgot to [...]

Day 333: Back To Buck Creek

I returned to the Buck Creek Trail ahead of schedule today.  I was planning on waiting a few more days for my previous injury to heal, but I was pressured into it by a friend.  It didn’t take much pressure, mind you; it’s just that I didn’t think about riding until he texted me about [...]

Day 144: My First 5K

I decided to venture over to Red Bud Park here in Abilene today to get in my run. Red Bud is a popular place for hosting 5K and 10K runs here in Abilene. I’d been to the park before, but not since I started running. It’s like I didn’t even notice that [...]

Day 132: Back In The Saddle Again

Joe Thorn had a post a few days ago describing how it took him a few runs to rebound from a 2-week break in his running. I think I made a similar turn today. I took a 4-week break during December and then put in a difficult, 3-run week last week. Last [...]

Day 52: Taming The Beast

Well, today was the big day, and a day of firsts:

First official race
First official Half-Marathon
First Personal Record (PR)
First time to run over 10 miles
First time eating a Snickers Marathon Energy Bar (I’m sure that’s what saved the day)

The race went really well, I think. I had several goals in the order of difficulty: [...]

Day 40: Surprising Myself

 I really surprised myself tonight.  I normally run at around a 10:20 pace, but on the fifth mile out of ten tonight, I picked up the pace and ran sub-10 minute miles for the remaining 6 miles.  My fastest mile came on lap 6 at a 9:14 pace.  I ended up finishing the whole thing [...]

Day 38: Testing the RS100

For the first month of my running, I use my cell phone’s stop watch feature to track my runs. It was nice because it would let you do lap times. Well, it died a couple weeks ago, so I’d been using a cheap stop watch. The only problem was that I lost [...]