Archive for October, 2009

Slow, decrepit, etc.

Y’all know how I’ve been hitting the stairs once a week for the last couple months.  Yeah, good stuff there.  I figured if I got down to 4 minutes, I’d be flying.  My coworker who does this with me agreed.  4 minutes would be awesome. We’ve mentioned this to another coworker of ours before.  He’s [...]

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The stars were flying by

Last Wednesday, we took  a break from the ordinary and woke up way before the crack of dawn to watch the Orionids meteor shower. Dianna had seen in the park schedule that they were hosting a meteor shower party at Little Mulberry.  Yes, the same park I always go running at.  So, being the adventurous [...]

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4:46

As you may have been following along, a while ago I started running the stairs at work. Today, I made a big leap by blowing away my previous best time of 5:00:07 minutes. (Yeah, I was counting down to the 100ths, since I missed it by that much.) New PR:  4:46! Yay for me.

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And then, it was time for bed

As you’ve heard me talk about a little bit lately, I was doing a little support for Sean’s run from Athens to Atlanta to raise money for Team in Training.  This was an 87 mile stroll following the same course as the A2A skate, which Sean was participating in (sans skates). Here’s how it went [...]

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Ahhh, mid week

Gee, I wasn’t going to write anything tonight. Earlier this week, I said to myself “Self, you should do a mid-week post about the coming weekend.”  But then, I got lazy and forgot about it. But, as I sit here waiting to make sure the little boy is really asleep, I read Sean’s blog, and [...]

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Born to…

Unfortunately, a couple nights ago, I missed the opportunity to go for a run with Chris McDougall, the author of Born To Run.  (He was in town for something, and took an evening for go out for a run with GUTS.) A friend lent me a copy of the book a couple weeks ago, and [...]

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