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not my picture. I was going to go back with my camera but I had already said my goodbyes. It was a beautiful February night as I headed out for my evening run at 5:45 just after the sun had set. Earlier I had watched the huge lava ball ignite the sky and was disappointed that I had missed the spectacle of it all out on my usual running route on Freeman Rd. It was dark when I began my ascent

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I am just heading out for my longest run by time and hopefully distance ever on the Gould Lake trails. The Yukon Arctic Ultra is ready to begin so I will be sending out good vibes to coach Derrick and fellow Health and Adventure athlete David Bohn as I take on all of the rolling hills. If you go here you can see the Spot Tracker map and get more details and charts to follow the athletes. Well the

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The early runner gets the pristine snow. The sleepy head gets this... I'll have to get up earlier if I don't want to run through and around this kind of mess left behind by the snowmobilers and cross country skiers. By the the time I took these pictures the trail was actually much more runable as more snowmobilers had broken up the icy clumps I found myself in a few hours earlier. I can't

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Ok I went for a quick recovery run today. I headed out the door wearing my Kinveras, a pair of warm socks(ski socks actually), a pair of tights, a shirt, and a light coat. After 35 minutes and 30 minutes of running I arrived home with everything I left with except for one thing. I was missing one sock. Why did I leave with two socks and arrive home with one? Here are a few more clues. I saw 5

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I was working on a poem in Tim Horton's today...isn't that what people do in Tim's?? No, you are correct I should have been in a Starbucks but really I don't "GET" Starbucks. I don't know how to order and I really don't want to learn. It is coffee people not rocket science. They get out all of the blenders and shakers and foamers and flavors and syrups for everyone else's order and then I ask

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Note: There has been a week delay in posting this. I think I decided not to post it originally because I am becoming tired with myself for saying what I am going to do when I should be doing what I say I am going to do. If that makes sense. Whether I will carry through with my plans as stated below is yet to be seen but I think I was able to take some baby steps towards my goal during my race and

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Warning: This is a ramble, unedited and uncensored. I won't even spell check and be warned I can not spell well so this should be fun.(BLOGGER NEEDS SPELL CHECK) Q: What do modern running shoes and modern toilets have in common? A: Both inventions tried to fix a problem that really never needed fixing. OK running shoes in general were not a problem until someone had the idea that we needed to

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A few weeks ago as I was tucking my 11 year old daughter into bed(a ritual I will surely miss as she gets older...boo hoo hoo) she turned over to face me pulling the covers up snugly around her neck and enthusiastically said, "Mom, I have to get up early to run." After picking my jaw up off of the ground I casually asked her why she was running in the morning without letting on just how proud her

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   Sitting down in front of a blank page is a fearful thing for me. I know if I dare to make a mark that I must be prepared to see the truth as it is revealed to me in graphite. No matter the outcome though I am always amazed when I am able to make something from nothing. That blank page in my sketchbook is very much like the starting line of a race. The race course is the white void of

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Emilie Mondor "Emilie's Run" had a strange vibe for me. I was there to run a race but could not help but think about how Emilie Mondor was running and winning this very race only 5 years ago a few months before the car accident which took her life. I felt at odds with my reasons for being there and the celebration of that life. The two events did not gel for me because running a race in honour

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Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love ya, Tomorrow, You're only a Da-a-a-a-ay... A-a-a-a-a...Wa-a-a-a-ay!! I really love to day dream about Tomorrow. Tomorrow is full of conquering my fears and fulfilling my dreams. Tomorrow keeps me hopeful. Tomorrow never let's me down. Tomorrow is always there waiting for me to hurry up and arrive so I can turn all of my fantastic visions into reality. This Tomorrow I

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 The Town Crier reads the Proclamation to begin the 16th Annual running of The Beat Beethoven 8km race in downtown Kingston.    The Kingston Symphony waits to begin playing the 50 min. selection of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" in the free outdoor concert!  512 racers stand ready for the music to begin playing and the race to commence. My Arch-nemesis Stacey with me

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Thank Goodness It's Thursday;-) Thursday afternoon means that all of my "workouts" are done for the week. My intervals, tempo and strength/core workouts are but a memory and I can now sit back and reflect on the past week and look forward to my long run on the weekend. This Sunday I will be joining Tammie and many of her other clients for a  fun 15km run on a part of the Cataraqui trail that I

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Which one do you think I ate???? That is my daughter's hand. She went for the soft warm gooey straight from the oven chocolate chip cookies. She did manage to fit in a few carrot and celery sticks also. I just started reading Matt Fitzgerald's book "Racing Weight, Quick Start Guide". To date I have calculated my lean and fat body weight(110 and 31 lbs.), my sleeping, training and daily

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It was a beautiful still day in Kingston Ontario for The Limestone Racing Weekend. Hundreds of people lined up for the 5km and Half Marathon at 9:30 am on the warm spring day. I went out slow with the 1:40 rabbit for the Half then picked it up to finish my first km in 4:35. Heading into my second km I had lots of energy and picked it up a bit as I passed under the RMC arch way. I know it is only

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Start of the Limestone 5km/Half Marathon 2011 Is there such a thing as racing/race day etiquette? I am not talking about racing in the Olympics here but a local hometown race where most of us are racing for fun, training or personal bests and not Overall medals. Here are a few observations from my race on Sunday that may or may not make the "Top 10 Things Not to do In or At a Hometown Race"

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I NEED TO TAKE BRYON'S(and my own) ADVICE!! The picture and the text really do speak to me concerning this coming weekend's race. It's as though I drew  it myself! Thanks Bryon for the advice although my coach has been saying it to me since Day 1. The 3 gals I should not see behind me are Shirley, Myra and Margarita. I will make sure to line up well behind them; )

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 Limestone 5km 2010  I am running in the Limestone 5km this Sunday. I have no idea what to expect as I have had some injury issues of late which have just resolved themselves this past weekend. I had a great training season through the winter and a few good training runs this spring but not nearly enough of them for me to feel confident about racing this Sunday. I know my mind is strong but

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Last week I had a little setback. At the time it seemed like it might turn into something huge and I could feel the disappointment trying to encapsulate my entire being. It is hard to deal with disappointment especially when you have a plan set in motion only to see the whole thing go up in flames when the unexpected happens. Which is why my friend Mr. Disappointment came a calling when a

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Once again I find myself in this very old house with a spiral staircase. I look up and cannot see where the staircase ends as it appears to go on and on so I begin to climb it. Looking up as I climb I do not notice the many people behind me who are now also climbing the staircase. After some time I become aware of the others and I wonder if they know where all this is leading to but I do not ask.

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Jane & JT Well it is a beautiful sunny day outside and time for me to brag about my Mom (Sherpa) Jane again. Recently with her goal to make the Canadian World Agility Team she decided to step up her game and began a core and walking/running routine with the help of Tammie Stanton . My Mom has always been active however she has never ever followed any sort of exercise plan. When she was young(

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 Doing the Scorpion  I have been quietly waiting. Waiting for something to happen. Something worth writing about. Some monumental accomplishment that will have you all dropping your jaws to the ground and gasping in awe as you read my account of my superhuman feats of glory. But Spring is threatning upon us, Winter's cold is lifting from my bones and the quiet has become deafening as I

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Mmmmm, I love cookies and I can't stop eating them lately. I told myself that I had eaten my last one. Well maybe one more then no more after that one and definitely no cookies tomorrow. That is what I said last night. Then I woke up this morning, poured my morning coffee and decided one more cookie couldn't hurt but it was the last one and then after eating 3 more I said enough is enough. Then

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A gif of me during the Dion Frontenac Snowshoe race in January. This is my first time using a gif on blogger. Thanks to the photographer who snapped so many successive pictures I just couldn't resist making the gif.  I had to reduce the pixels down to 200x300  and reduce the number of shots until I was able to get the gif to run on the site. You can also post a larger file and when people click

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CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW! Messing with ones natural stride is a taboo in some running circles. There is a train of thought that if you let an athlete run enough miles that he/she will find their natural stride. Problem is that many find injury before they find the perfect efficient way to get themselves from point A to point B. Yes the saying, "If it ain't broke then don't fix it", makes

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Here is a video of my Mom(71) and JT at the Ontario Championships winning the Steeplechase event. For me this is one of the most exciting things I have ever seen. I am just so proud of  both of them. You may notice that my Mom does not run beside JT through the course like many dog handlers do. Since JT is so fast she does not want to slow him down to her pace(which is slower then her younger

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Dear Coach Derrick, Thank you so much for another GREAT year of training. I still can't believe that the girl who met you for coffee to discuss training 2 years ago was me. She had many dreams and I'm the one who gets to live them. You took a "middle of the packer" and moved me that much closer to the front, but more then that your positive approach to running and life has also been a great

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Like I always say, I can WIN any race I enter...as long as no one FASTER shows up; ) Well usually that never happens, in fact it has NEVER happened until TODAY!!: ) The second annual running of the Somersault Triathlons, Duathlon, Canoe Tri, Kayak Tri, Swim, Swim-Cycle, 10KM, 5KM, 2KM, etc. etc. etc. took place today in my home town of Sydenham, Ontario. Everyone in the village came out to

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I am not going to bore you with all the details of my 1 mile race. I'd like to cut to the part about my goal for the race which was to "TRY". I would also just like to make it clear that my goal was to "TRY" not to "DIE" or "DIE TRYING". Yes finishing a race so tired that you can't hold yourself up is certainly one for sure sign that you "TRIED" but unfortunately my race didn't play itself out

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I had my last workout and now all I can do is wait for Thursday's race time to arrive. I actually cutback today to an easy 30 minutes and skipped the 4 sets of 20 sec. strides. I(we) decided to cut the strides because mentally and physically I was just not up to it due to what was suppose to be a simple tune-up workout yesterday. I started the first 90 sec. interval of the workout way too fast

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"Set your goals high because what a person accomplishes is in proportion to what they attempt." -Mitchell Naufell The quote above got me thinking that it may be time for me to adjust my goals. My recent goals have been to run a sub-20 minute 5km and a 6 min mile in 2010. Funny thing but these were also my goals in 2009 and since I did not reach them the same goals just kinda carried over into

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10 year olds can be very busy. This is just one of two projects we accomplished yesterday. I will post some details about our "geocaching" adventures on "The Meandering Trail" later.

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As I headed out the door for my long run I decided to grab my snowshoes and hit the trail. I spend alot of the week running my workouts on the road so the opportunity to snowshoe before the snow is gone was just too tempting. When I arrived at the trail I realized that the conditions were much worse then I expected. The trail was sloppy wet where the snowmobiles had travelled so I decided to go

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I can't believe the first month of 2010 is already over. I spent the first week of January in Florida however upon my return to the "Great White North" I decided to take full advantage of our winter season and was able to mark a few "FIRSTS" (as in first time doing something) while I was at it. Sydenham Lake after the thaw and refreezeMy first "FIRST" was finally getting up the gumption to run

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Saturday 23rd of January 2010 was the date of the first (ANNUAL?) Dion Frontenac Snowshoe Race. Results are here and a few more detailed race reports are here and here. It was my first snowshoe race and I had alot of fun testing my skills on the single track trail winding up and down and around Frontenac Park. It was a beautiful sunny day and had time to chat with many friends I only get to see

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The end of 2009 marked the end of my first full year of training- -time logged running: 170 hours -time logged aqua-running: 9 hours -time logged strength: 65 hours -time logged core: 55 hours -kms logged during training: 1573 kms This includes a 3 month period starting in June of low mileage due to my runners knee injury -kms logged during racing: 28 kms Races and Thoughts... # of Planned

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All My Mugs                                                                   Mother's Day Mugs This looks like my dog Gypsy, she was my first baby. Old habits and addictions die hard especially when you have invested money into them. Take for instance my coffee addiction. I had bought a very nice coffee maker with a stainless steel and black finish to match my other appliances in the

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Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

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This report is a bit delayed as it took be sometime to chew, swallow and digest my "HUMBLE PIE". I went into this race with specific time expectations so falling short of them really affected my overall veiw of the ultimate outcome. My goal was to start out slow and not to go out too fast like has been my habit. Actually my goal to start out slow is nothing new it is just that I have never

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Thanks to Derrick and Sara and all of the volunteers for putting on such a great event. I will write more about it when I get time. Official Pictures are here It was also fun hanging with David and Kim after as well. Here is a picture as proof. Hanging out with David and Kim Sara and Derrick                                       David wins a pumpkin and a silver medal Rob and Kim(silver

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I went for a nice meandering walk on MY TRAIL today and took some nice pictures of the fall colours currently being displayed around the lake. This section of the trail is in really good shape for the race tomorrow and I suspect the rest of the trail is in similar shape. Good Luck to everyone running this year and I hope to meet some of you at the post race festivities. Thanks in advance to

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I have meant to put these photos from a trip to Florida up for a while. I just think the sign is hilarious. I am pretty sure that the dog has more chance of outrunning that alligator then the guy does.  The trail this sign was posted on looped around a swampy area and despite the sign I actually went for a jog there as it is the only dirt trail around and I was getting tired of running on the

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Sanbanks Official Results My Goal: 22:30 and on a great day 22:00 The Results: 22:37 5km Race History: June 2008 Time Trial 29:50                               Sandbanks 2008 25:46                               Kingston May 2009 22:53                               Sandbanks 2009 22:37 In Summary: I am getting FASTER: ) Future Goal: 22, 21, 20, ............ minutes Thanks to Sara for my New

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-86077039075784208152009-09-15T11:47:00.000-07:002009-09-17T11:39:39.597-07:00

Showing Off my "Trophies" scabs, stitches and ALL!!My coach once had the nerve to tell me that the excruciatingly sore legs I was left with after my first goal race were infact my "TROPHIES". What kind of prize is that I thought, he must be CRAZY. But hey no one else was giving me any trophies so I took my prize and ran with it(them). The next time I raced my legs were sore again and as before I

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-25207945044806187052009-09-07T07:00:00.000-07:002009-09-07T09:07:26.623-07:00

I was feeling amazing. I thought to myself that I wish I always felt so light and springy. I was nearing 2.5 km when I was thinking about a Pose Running Clinic going on in Montreal. I had missed the posting on line and thought that perhaps I could have gone...then I was down. My hand was bleeding and my head was a bit shaken although I did not hit it. I got up and kept going thinking how this was

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-70323678428026240762009-09-02T08:12:00.000-07:002009-09-02T08:12:08.680-07:00

For some reason this week I am finding it hard to finish my sentences and to form coherent thoughts. I think it is just my excitement over getting back from Florida to my trail and some more sensible weather. As Fall approaches I am LOOKING FORWARD to- -training on my trail -the race reports from this years Haliburton 50's and 100 Sept. 12th. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!! -training for Sandbanks -

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-15233856938315680642009-08-25T08:26:00.000-07:002009-08-26T15:03:56.954-07:00

A great week of training in Florida. The humidity and heat was crazy and I tried my best not to complain about the added discomfort and instead concentrated on running strong and with purpose. I had 2 aqua-runs this week and 4 road runs including a very successful interval run on Tuesday and a great long run on Saturday. I find I spend a great amount of my running time thinking about my running

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-45972882041501607142009-08-18T08:58:00.000-07:002009-08-18T09:53:41.331-07:00

The second I deleted my poem from the top of this Blog last week I had a sinking feeling that I may have been a bit premature. At the time of the deletion I was well aware that my knee problems were not 100% behind me and as it turns out I was correct...and that is a GOOD THING:) I was correct that Mr. Cranky Knee was NOT BEHIND ME because he was in fact waiting AHEAD OF ME 5 minutes or so at the

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-824570960946341642009-08-13T17:05:00.000-07:002009-08-13T17:13:16.585-07:00

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-85564114732686480182009-08-10T16:48:00.000-07:002009-08-10T19:35:09.342-07:00

With much thought and no remorse I have finally decided to retire my poem from the top of it's namesake Blog. I wrote the poem one very frustrating day in May, 2 weeks after my PB setting 5km race which marked the beginning of the end of my knee. I was 3 days into a 7 day layoff from running and my computer was refusing to turn on no matter how patient I was trying to be. Pressing that ON button

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-80908696631042271332009-08-05T18:16:00.000-07:002009-08-07T07:56:55.376-07:00

Things felt really great this past week and I am almost ready to retire my poem from the top of this Blog. If all goes well this week then I will take it down.I had 7 days of workouts including 3 days aqua-running, 3 days trail running and 1 day rowing on the Egometer due to rough water. My knee was good as gold all week and it was nice to finish each run without that horrible building knee ache

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-79145230364833532722009-08-02T06:43:00.000-07:002009-08-03T07:45:30.542-07:00

If running has taught me anything about life it would be quite simply to keep moving forward. At least when you move forward you end up somewhere new, hopefully somewhere better and at the very least somewhere not the same. Getting out there to expand your horizons, to learn, see and experience new things is what running and life are all about.Unfortunately sometimes it is hard to think about

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-61883673270140464392009-07-27T09:41:00.000-07:002009-08-08T07:37:09.556-07:00

"Aqua-Running"... is it a true alternative to "Land-Running"or just one coach's devious plan to keep an unsuspecting land-runner occupied and sane while her broken body heals?I had that thought the other day while I was aqua-running at my usual snails pace and being blown out of the lake by the swimmers including World Champion Triathlete Scott Takala. What if this aqua-running thing is just an

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-48714361172764790612009-07-20T19:18:00.001-07:002009-07-20T19:37:26.067-07:00

That's me way out in the Bay with my white hat on so my daughter could keep an eye on me. These waves were better for kayaking then aqua-running.I was able to get in a good week of training while vacationing on Georgian Bay. The weather was better at the beginning of the week and I was able to get in a 25 min. aqua-run on Wednesday however skipped Friday's planned aqua outing due to the

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-712155713868259922009-07-12T14:30:00.000-07:002009-07-12T19:53:34.508-07:00

This week I was back to 6 days a week of training. By adding the Aqua-Running to my schedule I am finally able to get consecutive days of running in again . It's not real running but I will take it over having 3 days off a week anytime.-Monday was 35 min. running with 2 x 8 min. light tempos and 2 min. recovery's.I only made it through 30 of the planned 35 min. due to a building knee ache but

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-66945019713996630532009-07-10T07:01:00.000-07:002009-07-11T08:41:52.431-07:00

To put it BLUNTLY, Aqua-Running is DAMN SLOW!

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-35453200321483502112009-07-08T04:02:00.000-07:002009-07-08T11:32:43.957-07:00

This was the training week I was hoping would put an end to my knee troubles. It started out encouraging but began to fall apart half way into my Saturday run when I had to stop my tempo early. I did manage to set a push-up and pull-up record though so that is something to hold on to. The knee is being real stubborn so Derrick has loaned me his aqua belt for a little water running. Stay tuned to

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-57998673034845983722009-07-02T05:47:00.000-07:002009-07-02T08:41:53.472-07:00

I headed down to the Limestone Mile yesterday. I WILL be running this race in 2010 and as I may have mentioned before it will be the GRAND FINALE of my second year of training. As we arrived in the general vicinity of the race my daughter decided to plop herself down at a face painters booth, announced she was using her OWN money and ordered the Large Full Face Canada Flag(it was Canada Day after

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-88992247144259709752009-06-29T16:34:00.000-07:002009-06-30T07:40:10.861-07:00

Well Blogger since we last spoke I was headed out for a 35 minute run on Sunday the 21st of June. That run went well and this Sunday I increased my long run up to 40 minutes without a word from my knee. I am still running every other day though due to a disastrous attempt on Monday the 22nd to run on consecutive days. I could not finish the scheduled 20 minutes and after a minute of trying to

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-40524465507672528992009-06-23T06:32:00.000-07:002009-06-23T12:17:38.073-07:00

In my short 1 year of training I have prided myself in my ability to squeeze that last bit of effort out of every workout. My coach who has been at this running stuff just a bit longer then myself(his 7000 plus runs compared to my 500? runs) often uses the term "going to the well" when describing putting in that extra effort. He has advised me on numerous occasions that "going to the well" should

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-12279194229551857352009-06-21T05:58:00.000-07:002009-06-22T06:36:41.961-07:00

Welcome to what will eventually become my "Training Blog", however what I am doing now cannot really be called "Training". It can more aptly be called "Testing", so with that said then, "Welcome To My Testing Blog". With the guidance of my Coach and Chiro. I have been testing my knee to see what sort of punishment it can endure before it begins to "BARK" at me. "RUNNER'S KNEE" can be very

EJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095749168151599461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293004785581569501.post-19779680260056546812009-06-19T09:59:00.000-07:002009-06-28T03:09:07.058-07:00

Yesterday I turned the BIG 45!! Why the "BIG" 45? Well because I am planning on living to be 90(anything past that will be gravy) so 45 is halfway... HALFWAY THERE, HALFWAY OVER, HALFWAY TO GO, HALFWAY IN BETWEEN the BEGINNING and the END. I have this nagging feeling that the "BIG 45" is going to be an UPHILL BATTLE as many of the signs are telling me that I am going downhill(IE. more silver

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