Yes, I’m still tracking that virtual run. As of the first of January I’ve logged just over five hundred and twenty kilometers, my pace fluctuating quite wildly since my half marathon in August because the clinic I re-joined in the weeks following dropped the mileage back down to the starter-level again. That said, things are picking up now — my next half-marathon just a month away now — and so are the weekly kilometers. We did six last night (on hills) and have a sixteen planned for Sunday morning. Here we go again, I guess. For those curious, the virtual run — that cumulative five-twenty-ish — puts me (as measured linearly down real, mapped roads from my front door) somewhere just over the BC/Alberta border, [...]
I’ve neglected to update on my latest progress on my mega-running-goal. Having blown through my calendar year goal of on click per day, 365 kilometers for 2009, finished sometime in July — New Years Resolution, check — I’ve kept on going. Tracking the virtual run, I’m heading off in the direction of Vancouver a’la my big old treadmill goal from a couple years ago. As such, sprinting down the QE2, turning West at Airdrie, delving into Cochrane, bumping along Highway One, and scooting into the mountains, my current view is the gates to Banff National Park just West of Canmore — virtually speaking of course. That was helped significantly by a nineteen and a half kilometer jog yesterday morning through the foggy Edmonton river valley. [...]
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 02009 under
running.
I’ve been running. Running a lot, it seems. I remember a couple years back when I was talking about aiming for a ten kilometer run… someday, thinking aloud to Karin in the car that it would be cool if I could lace up my shoes and think little about such trot around the neighborhood. Then I tried, and I ran for five hundred meters along out nearby park and almost threw up. But little by little, step by step, clinic by clinic, practice by practice I’ve added distance. But I’d never run longer than ten kilometers at a stretch, give or take. In fact, if you go back to those early ‘virtual run’ posts where after multiple runs over the course of a whole week [...]
Posted on Monday, May 4, 02009 under
running.
Seeing as how I’m now supposed to be (technically) training an average of five days per week, it hasn’t been difficult to chalk up quite a few kilometers for the annual total. For those who don’t recall, I made one of my not-so-famous online pledges around the time of the new year — otherwise known as a blog-your-resolution — to accumulate a tally total of at least one kilometer (by sneaker) for every day of the year. For those who are still challenged by basic math, that’s three hundred and sixty five kilometers recorded between January first and December thirty-first, in this year of two-thousand and nine. As of yesterday — and that grueling Sunday morning jaunt with the speed-inclined half-marathon training group — I’ve [...]
