THE TUESDAY EVENING RUN WAS EVERYTHING I had looked forward to: sunny and warm, and a fired-up group ready to hit the road. We basically did a park tour – Wheeler Park to Gallup Park, then through the Arb (including a nice little half-mile hill) to campus and back to Wheeler for 7 miles overall. …
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By day, I'm a mild-mannered Director of Training at a software company in Ann Arbor, MI. By night - I sleep, mostly. In between, I do other things I feel the need to write about. Check out fitnessat50.net to view my thoughts on running, cycling, Aikido, and other things that keep me going.
Responsibility Sucks
TWO INCREDIBLE DAYS IN A ROW, AND I’M STUCK in the office. Sunny and in the 70s with a cool breeze. It doesn’t help that I passed a few cyclists on the way to work. It wouldn’t take much right now for me to get back in the car, drive home, change, hop on the …
Back to School
RAN INTO (WELL, WITH) MY FORMER RUNNING 101 INSTRUCTOR this morning, who was back from California for a visit. Turned out she was done with the West Coast and on her way to North Carolina for a new job selling gear for Columbia Sportswear. True to form, she was zipping along at the head of …
Feeling the Heat
IT HAD COOLED OFF TO 96 DEGREES by 6:30 p.m., the start of the regular Wednesday evening run from Running Fit downtown. At least there wasn’t any doubt about what clothes I’d need; as light as possible on everything (man, my new Kinvaras feel really good in this weather). And lay on the suntan lotion. …
