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I've been doing moderately better at getting my workouts in. I say 'moderately' because I've been hampered by my neck -- I've had the stabbing can't-turn-my-head type of pain on and off but more or less consistently for the last 6 weeks. Some days my neck will move and it's just pain, maybe a 4 on the pain scale; other days it locks up and I can't ( Read more... )

Something strange is going on with my running this year. It feels good.

Not the actual running part; the physical act of running is still full-on pain - I've got asthma, one ruined ankle with no remaining ligaments, two toes basically broken by arthritis, and horribly annoying recurring tendinitis in my ankles and knees: and you expect running to ( Read more... )

I've struggled a lot with working out / staying fit / being healthy in 2012. My biggest problem has been consistency.

On the short term, my mindset looks like this:

• [Sunday] I'm going to be so healthy this week and work out all the time! I go to the gym. I go to the grocery store and buy awesome high-protein breakfast and lunch ingredients, and ( Read more... )

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The Akron Marathon (Relay) is only 2 days away! I am starting to get excited/nervous about it -- last week I was ready to just have it over and done with, but now, I'm preoccupied with how I am going to do and whether the 200 miles of training I've put in are going to show up or not ( Read more... )

I haven't posted about training in a while, and since I've run 9 miles in the last 2 days and am exhausted from it, I think it's time for a catch-up post. Here's what I've done in August - I'm in the middle of Week #7 right now.

AUGUST
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week 5: 18.3 mi total 5 miles: warmup / 3 mi tempo / cooldown 3 miles easy/recovery 8.3 miles, ( Read more... )

In absolutely no order at all:

• Had a pretty good weekend full of friends, fireworks, and drunkenness. Got chased by the cops (yes, we are all 30 years old), did some amazing karaoke with safety_Caesars as Edgar and Locke, watched Lithium play an awesome show, and sewed. A lot.
• Finished my Azula costume for our Avatar group at Otakon 2011. The costume's ( Read more... )

So I injured my left calf (inner lower leg and inner ankle area, to be both specific and general) while training for the Pittsburgh Half Marathon. I realized sometime the week of 25 April; the week of 3 May I made the decision to stop training in order to make it to the Half. I ran twice after that decision: once on 8 May when I raced a 5K, and ( Read more... )

So I ran the Pittsburgh Half Marathon on Sunday ( Read more... )