Thursday night's the running group's hill run in my neighborhood, so I usually walk the mile or so from home to the track, do the mile track warm-up, the 3-mile out-and-back hill run, the mile cool-down, the "No, I'm not eating ice cream with you guys - I haven't seen my wife all day, and I'm going home."  That's the routine, that's how it usually ( Read more... )

Back in the fall, when I was cautiously walk/running on Saturday afternoons (after months of pain from the overtraining debacle that was my attempt to take up running last spring),  I hoped to be healthy enough to finish the MCG Heart & Sole 5K in Augusta that started everything last year, and hoped beyond that to be able to tackle, with my wife, ( Read more... )

Following is the main text from an e-mail I received.  The speaker is Richard Twiss, founder of Wiconi International, an agency dedicated to reconciling first nations people to the God of the Bible:

"In a two party system every election will polarize people on both sides of an issue. That tension is part of what makes a democracy work. Voters, ( Read more... )

In early March last year, after about a month-and-a-half of clueless "training" miles that were, unbeknownst to me, setting me up for injury, i sprinted and walked and surged and hobbled through my first 5K.  I was doing it to have something in common with my wife, who ran it as part of her training for a first 10K that would come in April.  I ( Read more... )

I run.  Two weekdays, I'm up just after 5AM to go out and run laps around the campus of Augusta's First Baptist Church, stopping during warm-up and cool-down laps to do chinups on a swingset  in the border playground.  Two other weekdays, I get up  a little bit later (certainly before 6 - what am I supposed to do, sleep ALL the time?) to do a core- ( Read more... )

That blasted magazine Runner's World.  They're really to blame.  If not for that January article about runner types, I wouldn't have started thinking about mixing up my runs again.  I wouldn't have done my first tempo run since spring last week (for the uninitiated, this type of run means running up-tempo, close to the timing or tempo one would aim ( Read more... )

I had this great idea back before Thanksgiving to mention some of my favorite Christmas music, and 12 seemed like a good, seasonal number.  Why mention them?  Well, with so much horrendously bad (Mannheim Steamroller) and mediocre (*insert bland pop artist's rendering here*) seasonal music being offered through the years, why NOT share the ( Read more... )

Alright, so waking up to the sound of a rising tide isn't the start of a Thanksgiving memory for most of us.  We were fortunate enough to be invited by our in-laws to join them this week at a beach rental house on Edisto Island, just out from Charleston, SC.  Rain may blow through before the weekend's out, but the drive over last night was pleasant ( Read more... )

During my run this morning, i had a moment of recognition regarding my gate (stride, not fence-door), which allowed me to adjust the way my foot lands so that it causes less pain (still rehab-ing from a months-old knee injury ( Read more... )

So the Republican convention is done.  I hate not having gotten to catch more of last week's Democratic convention, for comparison.  Alas, I have to trust my dentist's personal evaluation:  "The Dems just throw a better party.  This week's speeches have just been boring."

But at least I got to hear from both party's nominees a wish list, er, i mean ( Read more... )