T: Monday night, I taught meditation. (By which I mean I led the meditation group, because Andy wasn't there, and Ken didn't feel like it, having done it the week before. Okay, sure, no problem.)

L/T: Tuesday night was square dance. I took the course last semester, but this semester I'm an "angel" (club member who dances with class members), ( Read more... )

Today was the Groton Town Forest Trail Race - 9.5 miles of "narrow dirt roads and winding single lane trails, with lots of roots, rocks, leaves, uphills, and downhills". I was under-trained and (it turns out) under-fueled, but it was going fine until, around mile 5, I tripped over a root and fell. And fell 3 more times between miles 8 and 9 - ( Read more... )

This morning was the Wilmington Half Marathon. In two years of running, this is my first repeat event. It was a lot cooler than last year, and I didn't walk any of it, but I still managed to finish almost a minute slower than last year (1:49:42 vs 1:48:47). Possibly because I was running 3-4 times/week this time last year, and I've only managed 1-2 ( Read more... )

("Heja" is roughly "hurrah". We heard it a lot from the spectators.)

Official time: 3:40:59. Gun time 3:43:29, which means that it took 2:30 just to reach the start line. Big races are like that ( Read more... )

See my splits every 5k! Follow me on the course map ( Read more... )

Running in Stockholm is always an adventure. This time, it was an 8-ish mile run around Brunnsviken lake that turned into 12.5. See, the rule of "keep water to your right" did not account for the canal connecting the lake to the Lilla Värten fjord, and it was a couple miles further north before I realized that something had gone horribly wrong. Yes ( Read more... )

Or I could hit the wall, and post a time of 3:50:04, which isn't bad, but still 5 minutes off my previous time, and way off of what I was hoping for.

This tells the story (from a screen-cap of RunKeeper on my phone, because graphing on the RunKeeper website is completely useless - wide and low and unlabeled axes):

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Remember this? Of course you do. Part A was this morning: half-marathon in 1:43:26 - 94/936 overall, 6/27 in my division. Yay, Personal Record, rather better than my 1:49 in the previous halfsAccording to the VDOT calculators, this is predictive of a 3:36 marathon, which would also be PR, but not enough to qualify for Boston. Oh well, we'll see. ( Read more... )

I'm also doing this thing on May 30th: The! Stockholm!! Marathon!!! Because I've got a business trip to my current favorite European city, which dovetails with this race, and IT! IS! IMPERATIVE! that I should do this race.

I'm doing this thing in May: half-marathon on Saturday, full marathon on Sunday ( Read more... )