The long story short is that getting to the point where I can run again has been amazingly frustrating and difficult. I think I'm finally making progress, but I don't know how that 5k on June 1 will go. I have, as yet, been unable to do more than a 10 minute run, and I'm guessing the 5k will take me closer to 38 minutes. (My mental goal for ' ( Read more... )

I have been doing the couch-to-5k training schedule for running. I decided to do it because I was having no luck in getting back into running condition. (Running really hasn't been fun in a long time. But I want to be able to be a runner again; there is something useful and cathartic about being able to run ( Read more... )

Randomly ( Read more... )

Its been more than a month since i wrote here. Weird ( Read more... )

On Saturday i went on a bike ride with Marc and Paul -- first time on the bike since my crash at the end of last summer. I must admit that i was a bit wobbly, psychologically if not physically. We did some twenty miles with only minor hills, and i could tell that my legs are not where they once were. However, it was encouraging that I could do ( Read more... )

running with double jogger into head wind > running with double jogger >> running alone ( Read more... )

This morning at Marymoor park i did the Big Backyard 5k, happily a fundraiser for King County parks ( Read more... )

Rachel and i went on a long run/walk ( Read more... )

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4261723

via feeding Jasper the cat, and with the company of Marc. I felt like i could do it, hills and everything.
The Ravenna park ravine trail was nice.
and i got home with mud soaked feet.

Altogether, a pretty good time.

Today i ran with the dog to feed Jasper - it works out to be a good five mile run in the end, with a hill. The stop to pet the cat, and the fact that the up-hill is almost all in the beginning makes the end fly by. It felt like a good fast run. (I did not time myself, but my last few runs have felt fast. I might be up to getting out the ole HR ( Read more... )