With only a day or so left in the month, and just coming down off of food poisoning and a head cold, I thought I’d set up October to be something of a challenge month for myself, trying to get back on the cart with regard to my foreshortened fitness plan, et cetera.
Starting October 1, [...]
This is a follow up to: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Poor planning on my part — or not — but the long weekend played havoc with my running plans. Ideally, I should find myself running wherever I happen to wake up on any given morning. On this instance it happened to be in Red [...]
This is a follow up to: Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4
The last week has shown a marked improvement in both my times and Sparkle’s attitude. Would you believe that she nudged me out the door on Monday, pulled all the way to the park, and was running before we hit the asphalt. [...]
This is a follow up to: Parts 1, 2 & 3
Not counting my five kilometer road race on Saturday, Sparkle and I are completed eight runs to date. And things continue to improve. For myself, I’ve had one of my best weeks ever, completing a total of nearly twelve kilometers over three runs, and [...]
I know I mentioned that I’d be uber-posting episodes from the novella here this week, but I’ve needed to re-evaluate that particular goal due to some random distractions, inconveniences, and other personal reasons. I’ll try and get at least a couple up before the week is out, but realistically the one-a-day thing is now [...]
This is a follow up to: Parts 1 & 2
Six runs down, Sparkle continues to do well (with the exception of one messy Friday morning — check out the comments in Part 2, link above.) Our focus has improved and my endurance is increasing for these early morning jaunts that used to be sheer torture. [...]
Sparkle and my morning routine now includes some jogging. I’ve decided to steal back a small fragment of my day and by getting up a half an hour earlier I’m hoping to squeeze in a longer stroll — or three times a week — a five kilometer run in the nearby park. Tomorrow [...]
I was feeling guilty. I skipped my running class last night for the simple (and valid, I think) reason that it was hovering around thirty degrees for most of the day yesterday and I don’t want to die of heatstroke — especially while wearing running gear. The alternative was a humble promise to [...]
When it was the deepest days of cold winter the only excuse I ever really gave for not running was the lack of a sidewalk for fresh snow. Those Saturday nights when we were graced with heavy white drifts measured in multiples of inches on the paths made a leisurely Sunday morning jog close [...]
A couple months back when I was pondering good ways to ring in 2008, I fell into the trap (as many of us do) of making resolutions. Nearly nine weeks post-festivities, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the progress. As far as I can recall, I officially opted in for two [...]
As for the running clinic: one of the emphasized techniques that is revealing itself to be quite clear, in both the class and the propaganda, is the run/walk split. That is, when we were out the other night we did our run in the pattern of run five minutes, walk one minute, repeat four [...]
Last night it was minus fifteen Celsius. Last night was also the first night of my running clinic. We didn’t run five kilometers yet. Actually, I just stuck it into runningmap.com and came up with 2.75 clicks — but not bad for my first serious run in a couple months, and my [...]
