Last year, I heard about a run that sounded like a lot of fun, but for various reasons, I couldn’t do it. However, this year I was determined to make it onto a team and do it. Today was this day! The 2008 ChickEkiden, part of the Gainesville chicken festival. It’s a marathon length (26.2 [...]
Read More..>>Saturday, I had the first half of my exciting weekend running, getting ice cream. Now, as exciting as this was, it was all roads, shoulders and sidewalks, dodging cars and breathing exhaust. So Sunday, the plan was miles of trails. Our group planned to meet at Ft. Yargo State Park at 7:30. This is when [...]
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Comments(4) Watching the weather report yesterday, it was supposed to be raining all morning today. This left me with a delemia, do I get up and meet the group or sleep in and go running whenever I get up? I decided to sleep in…and it was pretty nice. For my run, I decided to make it [...]
Read More..>> Comments(6) Okay, I admit, I enjoy reading other peoples blogs. Maybe it’s the voyeur in me…or maybe its because sometimes I come across little nuggets of virtual gold. It might be a sentence, it might be a paragraph, but it’s a little piece of wisdom gained. What’s that people way? Better to learn from others mistakes [...]
Read More..>>As y’all know, occasionally I am caught up in something that strikes me as funny. Today, another one of those moments happened. On Monday, a coworker mentioned he signed up for a sprint triathlon. “Cool for you” I said. He’s a big biker…brought his own trainer into the gym to use all winter and goes [...]
Read More..>>Now that I’m officially recovered and all, it’s time to start preparing for the next race in a couple weeks. So, I got up early and met with Roman to get some extra miles in before our group run. For some dumb-ass reason, we decided to meet at 6:20 AM. I can’t complain too much, [...]
Read More..>>My fears of some stress fractures are now gone. The podiatrist says it’s just tendonitis. With some good ol’ non-steriod anti inflammatory pills (e.g prescription strength ibuprofen), I’m good to start running as much as I want and can handle. I even got a cool picture of my foot.
Read More..>>2008-april-newsletter Okay, here is yet another marathon post. I’m using an edited version of my original race report for my article in this months club newsletter, so for those of you reading it, sorry for the not-so-original content. Next month, I’ll try to put together what I was originally going to write about. I’ve edited [...]
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