Took the entire downstairs office and flipped it 180 degrees (plus about three feet of sliding it in one direction). Feels good to have hit a year at home without major incident and decided that changing things up would be good for me. I like the change. A little unsure on how a third rotation would work, but I got a few weeks to work that out ( Read more... )

Work continues attempting to kill me. Losing my team lead to another group in the company at some point in the next 3-5 weeks. Issues with the software release for year-end. Etc, etc, etc ( Read more... )

Completed? Yes. Completed running? Yes. Completed in under 2 hours? No ( Read more... )

Getting close to the starting line. Bunch of friends all doing big distances lately. Doug Campbell just knocked out a marathon in Baltimore. Jackie Capriotti has a half, what, next week? Think that's right. And I've got mine on Sunday. Yay running ( Read more... )

The 12-miles on Sunday went about as well as I had hoped. The terrain wasn't going to allow for speeding through it (not that long runs are supposed to be speedy in the first place) and I could tell that passing my start point twice would lead to thoughts such as, "Y'know . . . seven miles would be enough today, right?" But it also let me refill ( Read more... )

Knocked out my 10 mile run yesterday in good form. Got tired, but a good kind of tired. Next Sunday is 12 miles. The following Sunday is a reduction back to 6. And then the following Sunday is the half-marathon. Feeling pretty confident about completing the "finishing this thing while running" goal. Jury is still out on the "cracking two ( Read more... )

After yesterday's run, I'm halfway to the race date ( Read more... )

The day after my tempo run last week, I got up from my desk and rotated my legs and ankles around to loosen them up. Right one kind of half-popped, but not fully. Sort of like half-cracking a knuckle. Within an hour, I found that my ankle felt 'thick'. It didn't really hurt at all, but definitely didn't feel 'right ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my first tempo run as I continuing building for the half-marathon ( Read more... )

I know I've commented on it before, but it is just so weird to not have your brain fully on-line until you're about 10 minutes into a really early run. The last three or four Tuesdays, I've been getting up pre-work to knock out my run that day. It works out well since the runs are only three miles and the entire process from "wake up" to "out the ( Read more... )