TIME TO REDEFINE MY LONG RUN. Coach put me in for 14 miles today, with surges to half marathon pace at miles 11 and 13. That’s what I get for showing off last week and doing 14 miles when I was scheduled for 10 easy ones. But I got through them fine. Even finished with …
5Ks and Chicken Suits
RAN THE BORGESS 5K WITH MY DAUGHTER this morning. Kalamazoo, MI was bright and sunny, with temperatures in the 50s. A bit chilly standing around, but perfect for the run itself. We followed race management’s request to be on campus before 7:00 a.m. This is asking a lot of a college student on a Sunday, …
A Brief Failure
I FLUNKED UKE tonight. This is hard to do, but somehow I managed it. As senior student tonight, I was the demonstration Uke. The technique Sensei chose is supposed to end with Uke sliding to flat on the mat as Shite pulls Uke’s arm. Just before this, we’d been practicing sliding movements, and I could …
Six Miles
WHAT AN INCREDIBLE RUN last night! We headed out at 6:30. The sun was bright and the temperature was perfect (right around 60 degrees). We ran through a couple of parks on the Huron River, and over the Argo Dam. There were rowing sculls on the river, and lots of other people out running or …
RUN COFFEE WRITE 