A smart friend of mine, Jean Groce, dropped me a note wishing me a speedy recovery on my ankleness, my ankle-agility, my… there’s probably a clever word play on a tweaking ankle but I got nothing. Anyway, Jean wisely reminded me: Difficult though it is, you may have to give it some time off. We […]
Tomorrow I’ll look at the big data, from whence we can drill into the details. Times and conditions and whatnot. But for today, I’m just going to enjoy the inexplicable. Apparently I came in first for the half marathon. It wasn’t a super fast time — maybe 1:41. Slower than last week but faster than […]
My ankle is bugging me quite a bit. I could offer all sorts of excuses but it is what it is. I was slower than a week ago’s half marathon in Santa Monica. But unlike then, the field was smaller and somehow I wound up with a 2nd place finish overall. Bonus! As always, A […]
I’m in a funk. And I shouldn’t be. Yesterday I got to catch up with former roommate Brandon Oropallo and my brother. Brandon even brought me screen used Match Game answer cards. It was great to see him and to see him so happy – his wife and kid are really wonderful and I couldn’t […]
So I skipped the run this morning. We’ll see if I can rally for this afternoon. My mind says I need to go, my hear says go, but my body? My body is saying something else entirely. I’m not sure if I’m Goldilocksing this thing — am I over doing it, under doing it, just […]
I know, I know. There’s no such thing as a bad run. There’s a tough run, but there are no bad runs. Because I’m always glad to HAVE run, even if I’m not happy WHILST running. But today was a bad run. I was super slow, even with some green lights in my favor. Lumbering, […]
I really, really, really, really didn’t want to go for a run today. Much like Shel Silverstein’s Lazy, Lazy, Lazy, Lazy Jane who wants a drink of water so she waits and waits and waits for it to rain, I might have waited, waited, waited for my legs to run on their own. But here’s […]
I paid the $20 to have a digital download of my Run For The Red Marathon finisher photo. It was the first and as of this writing ONLY time I ran a Boston Qualifier time. By the slimmest of margins, I did it but ya know what? I did it. And that felt worth commemorating. […]
I first ran with A Better World Running last year around the Fourth of July. It was at their 3rd of July Marathon race that I inexplicably pulled *something* in my shoulder. I didn’t fall, I didn’t do anything weird. But that’s the race where something went haywire. To be clear, it wasn’t anything other […]
Last week I bought a used Garmin Vivoactive on eBay and just received it from my mail lady. I bought it hoping to replace my current GPS watch, a Garmin 10 that’s been playing up a bit. And not in a “oh, isn’t that fun!” kind of way. My first impression of the Vivoactive is […]