Holy Springtime, Batman!
In the course of my last 4 runs, I’ve gone from 21 degrees and windy with slush falling from the sky to 68 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze. Just in between these last two runs, the temperature went up 25 degrees! It’s been three months since I [...]
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I managed a last run of 2011, the morning of New Year’s Eve! Coincidentally, it also marked exactly six months that I’ve been running. It was a surprisingly important milestone to me, important enough to undertake even though we were in Maryland visiting friends. I should however, have considered [...]
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I Long for a Little Boredom…
The weather the last two weeks has made running dangerous, difficult, and confusing, but I’m certainly not bored! There’s been snow on the ground for two runs (not adjacent, of course), a below freezing run, a mid-sixties run, and run with so much sun and heat I felt like it [...]
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Indian Summer Reprieve
Well, the warm came back, at least for a week! Three whole runs in glorious, warm, fall weather definitely reinvigorated me. The cold had me getting pretty apprehensive, but I used this time-out to push myself a little harder, and get my body used to a more difficult course at [...]
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Changing Things Up
I’ve been doing a lot of research on the internet about how I should train my body to achieve the most fitness I can from the running I do. It turns out that most folks recommend varied effort for best results. Quite by accident, many of the things they suggest [...]
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Stepping it Up
Having found a rhythm that seems to allow me to actually progress with my running, I decided today to take things up a notch. I increased my run/walk ratio from 3-to-1 to 3.5-to-1. I had considered going directly to a 4-to-1 ratio, but I was trying, for once, to be [...]
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Holy Crap, It’s Hot!
Today was my first post-camping run. I had to wait until all the blisters and bruises had become manageable. I was psyched, and got ready to feel great about myself. Then I opened the door, and got hit in the face by a wall of 97 degree air. It was [...]
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