Pulling the Plug

Having lived in Sacramento for a long time it rarely rains, part of the reason I wanted to get the heck out of there. Too hot, too dry, no trees, too flat. Awesome, a flood warning and “downpours” for Sunday morning. Brilliant. My son is home sick again and now I feel phantom aches and […]

Ready

Holy crap I can’t believe we leave in 2 days. gulp I had acupunture again Monday so I made Tuesday my run day. Sadly I had a few appointments in the morning before work so I knew my run was going to have to wait until the evening hours. I rarely run any time past […]

Waters Tested

Because I know you guys are just as anxious as I was about my run I’ll finally spill the beans. 3 successful-ish miles. 9.30 slooooow ugh pace. My leg was pretty achy and when I attempted to pick up speed it got more achey. Thankfully no sharp searing pain anymore. I had planned on maybe […]

Day 10

Ok. Please for the love of God, leg feel normal today. I’ve been ellipticalling my little angry, entitled heart out. Acupunture, ice, ibuprofen, rolling the crap out of it, and a few dashes of wine and manhattans. I gave myself 10 days as the max I would allow off before trying to run. DING time […]

Day 8

Not a big fan of these cartoons but this one made me cry so hard I starting laughing wine snot out of my nose. So much for my no drinking till Thanksgiving, that was a stupid idea anyway. I worked a long night and have been pretty “veganish” for the last maybe 2 months or […]

7 Days

Yep, 7 days of no running. Totally sucks. Even thought this is taper time I was stoaked to be in such good shape because this was the week I was going to put the hammer down as far as speed work and tempos were concerned. Not. So. Much. I was able to get into the […]

Really!?

Really!?! 1.5 miles in and it’s hurting. You’ve got to be kidding me….

Ouchie!!?

Last week I started to get a little sharpish pain in my left shin; the same leg and perhaps the same spot as my stupid shin splits from Eugene. I took it pretty easy last week.Ok maybe 50 miles that week isn’t exactly easy I did my 20, I was going to do 22 but […]

Long Run Missed

This might sound a little cray cray but I think missing (opting) not to do one of my 20 milers a few Sundays ago was one of the best things that could have happened this training cycle. In fact I did not run at all that Sunday. I chose (had I chosen to run there […]

The Infamous Jacket

Man I was doing awesome with hits on this blog then I stopped sharing my wealth of insights via the World Wide Web and low and behold less visitors. Sad face. Ok well I was going to blog tomorrow but I’m all wound up NOW! (And no, not one ounce of booze is in my […]