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,…
Coyote Trail Run (Jun 2024)
Inside screened Shelter 5, Cleburne State Park. Event: Coyote Trail RunDistance: 8MDate: 2024-06-08, Sat, 8:00aLocation: Graford, TX;Six-O RanchEvent Host: Blaze Trails Running Here's another non-Race Report. I was registered to…
20240605 – Forward Roll (W1/D3-50K)
Motto: Quit Trying = Failure Which is to say, when you stop trying to reach the goal, you fail at the effort by default. So, I keep going...even if it's…
“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…
XTERRA Cameron Park (June 2022)
Note: I wrote this post during the fall last year and never published it. As I'm hoping to do this event again in 2023, I thought it would be fun…
So, How Fat Am I Really?
I lost 20 pounds in 6 weeks! Stupid (scary?) fast, I know. I wasn’t actually trying to lose weight. My doctor and I were trying to reduce or reverse my…