20250107 – New Year! (W10/D2–26.2M)
Hello 2025! Here’s a summary of this past week’s training. And my fitness kick-off for the new year. 2025 is going to be different! I’m doing it. That’s the best…
20241213 – “New” Plan (W3-6/D5-26.2M)
I suppose it’s easy to tell I didn’t finish my last training cycle—no updates since that first overly optimistic report about how “consistent” I was being. Not! I was still…
Work? I’m Retired!
This essay was a hard one to start. It’s the week 2 assignment from A Year of Writing to Uncover the Authentic Self1. I wrote the week 1 essay assignment,…
20240901 – Consistency (W2/D7-25K)
September. Can you believe it? Okay. So I'm calling this week 2 in my 25K training cycle. That 25K, in case I haven't mentioned it, is less than 4 weeks…
My Inquiring Mind Wants to Know
I started out with the intention of providing an update related to my recent DXA scan. Then I got to wondering… Did I get a DXA at my lowest weight…
20240329 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (W3/D5-27M)
The Good I’m continuing my training streak into week 3. It’s day 5 and I’ve ran everyday the training plan called for it. Today is the seventh day of a…
“Pie-in-the-sky”
It's OK. Go ahead and roll your eyes as you read through this post. Really. Even I can't help grinning stupidly at the audacity of it. Go big or go…
It’s a process
That's something I came to understand and appreciate last January while recovering from rotator cuff repair1,2 on my left shoulder. This January (2024), I find myself going through the same…
Statesman Cap10K (Apr 2023)
Perfect weather for a popular road race in Austin, TX Event: Statesman Capitol 10KDistance: 10KDate: 2023-04-16, Sun, 8:00aLocation: Austin, TXEvent Host: Austin Statesman It started the way it usually does.…
Now, About That 50K
60th year? Why not run my very first ultra-marathon? Well, I’ll tell you why-- If you don’t do the training, you’re not doing the distance. If you’re working on a…