First run of 2014: Late afternoon, 15 degrees, snowing, and four inches already on the ground. But my training goes year-round, and running on New Year's Day is one of my personal traditions, so I layered up, strapped on my new headlamp, and went out for 4 miles and change. Most non-runners I know are …
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Fun in the Snow, and Respecting One’s Elders
Southeastern Michigan got royally dumped on last weekend, which actually led to more outdoor exercise for me, in the form of shoveling our long driveway. Three times. It's good upper body work. If this keeps up, I'll look like Charles Atlas in the spring. (When he was alive, I mean, not right now.) The PR …
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Chilling Out, and My Vanity Solves a Mystery
ONE GREAT THING ABOUT RUNNING, as most runners will tell you (like one did last night at the ice cream shop) is that it's a great stress reliever. So on Tuesday, when an annoying assignment at work threatened to turn me into a grumpy, embittered soul, I jumped ship and went to Running Lab to …
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I Want it ALL!
"I need to pick a different day for my speedwork," I told my coach Wednesday night. My current training consists of a Saturday morning long run, the PR Fitness Wednesday night run, and one day of 'speedwork' - tempo run, intervals, hill work, progressions, or similar torture, which has usually been Tuesday. All well and …
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