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Motivating Music: What’s Your Top Tune?
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You either love it, or hate it. Running with music that is. If you are one of the millions that love running to music, you may be interested to hear [...]
Soccer Field Six
Another six miles on the soccer fields where I really worked hard in a bold attempt to get fit for some of my upcoming races. Looking forward to the Race for Literacy 10 Miler in Suffolk, VA on Sunday’s 10 Miler. No goal at the moment, but I’ll probably tag on an extended warm-up/cool down [...]
Ten In The Park
Not my best run ever, but good to get in another ten miles. Started off with a couple of slow miles, but still found it difficult to pick up the pace along the Cape Henry Trail. I did notice some odd readings on the Garmin and now that I’ve looked at the GPS track, it [...]
Ride/Run
I followed up a quick blow out on the bike (6 miles in 17:57) with another run on the soccer fields at the PAAC.
Started with two easy miles (7:52, 7:37) and then ran a couple of miles where I jogged the length of a soccer pitch and “sprinted” the widths (7:15, 7:00). Finished off [...]
It’s Been A While…
Oh dear — fallen behind on the blogging again, so here’s a quick catch-up on what’s been happening:
Thursday (Day 11): Yesterday, on Day 10, I ran “too-fast-for-an-easy run” and predicted I’d regret it the next day. How right I was. Today was easily the toughest of the marathon training so far, but I survived…..just.
Plan: 60 [...]
Another Random Update
Life is good, but life is also busy. Here’s another mixed bag of updates….
Friday June 5th:
Very pleasant, very easy Friday morning run. It was raining. I got drenched. It was fun!
Saturday June 6th:
Ran the Equi-Kids 5k which turned out to be a lot of fun on a challenging, rain-soaked cross country course. My warm up [...]
