It has been a few weeks since I ran to work, what with taper then race weekend, then recovery meant I "didn't have to" (not that we ever have to do any training, but you know what I mean ...). And the logistics of doing so slipped away from me a little this week. Yes, I managed to remember to bring all my clothes for work today in to work yesterday ( Read more... )

This morning was a second attempt at what I failed to get out of bed yesterday for. Yesterday it seemed like what I needed more was to silence the alarm and snuggle back into bed (and if my body is telling me that that is what is needed, then that is what I do). But this morning I was awake before the alarm, ready to get up and go.

Now that the ( Read more... )

Earlier in the summer I had turned a wishy-washy desire to swim butterfly into a specific and measurable goal. So, well, I missed that goal in so very many respects! :( I spent many an humorous hour in the pool trying exactly what the books warned against: trying to muscle and power my way through the butterfly. My effort and enthusiasm lasted ( Read more... )

Over the summer, I've been kinda-using paces for 3 marathon goal times for my workouts: 3:40, 3:30 and 3:20, kinda picking the one with the easiest run-math with which to do my quality workouts. Yes, kinda waffly, but I'd been training for someone else's PR, not really my own, 3:40 was kinda-comfortable, 3:30 Goldilocks, 3:20 my bleeding edge, some ( Read more... )

I've done some since St. George, a 10 miler last Sunday, a couple of weekday light runs, a bit of swimming. Kinda taking October off, kinda keeping active. Today was a fun run with IronBarbara and others training for the San Antonio marathon mid-November. This was their "only 10 miles" run before their last big run next weekend, before their taper ( Read more... )

As I did last year, so I have done again this year. :}

Paraphrased/abstracted from Wikipedia:
A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. Some governments outlaw it, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments.

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One thing I am pleased with? Perhaps not above all else, but up there? And I don't think it is (just) because they are more recent memories, but I am happiest with two marathons (Austin this year; StG this year) that aren't even my fastest time(s)/PRs. 18 months ago I would never have dreamt such a thing ( Read more... )

Friday night, we tried going over our race plan again.  We reviewed potential mile-by-mile splits.  I got overwhelmed.  I'm not accustomed to micro-managing my races.  I run by effort.  Tears welled up in my eyes and I left the room.  When I came back, Mr. Enstone said, "Are you crying?  Oh no.  I'm never around crying.  I don't know what to do.  ( Read more... )

The St. George marathon is a point-to-point marathon from Central, Utah to St. George, Utah. Central, Utah (the town name is "Central", that's not a description of where relative to the rest of Utah it can be found) consists of twelve mailboxes on a kinda-paved road with tracks -- presumably driveways -- leading away into the landscape from the ( Read more... )

We had told people [from the beginning] that we were running the St. George marathon together. But what you say and what people hear are not always the same thing. Last week and this weekend we heard numerous "Oh, you'll be running together, like 'with', side by side?" "Yes", "Oh". Not just running the same destination marathon, but running with ( Read more... )