Simon Says...Run

Oh yeah, I had an appointment with my family doctor last Friday. He took an x-ray of my leg. Of course, nothing showed up. If something had ...

Since Susan ask...here are my gardening photos. Here's a little garden I whipped up over the weekend. Actually it's a conservator...

I had a nice 3-day weekend and didn’t even think about running or cross-training. Since it was 97 and 94 degrees (102 heat index) the last ...

Okay. Now what the heck do I blog about? Is it just me or do others find it disturbing when 35 year old men have a conversation about Americ...

Last night's run felt terrible – right from the start. We were supposed to do mile repeats at 15-30 seconds per mile faster than MP. M...

Hmmm, just looking at my log book and I’ve gotten to the point where I run hard or I don’t run at all. I ran hills last Tuesday, 2-mile rep...

The first few minutes of last night’s run were miserable. I came ‘this close’ to turning around and heading home. But I didn’t and my leg ...

I took yesterday off, since I was feeling a little beat up from the hills. I still feel stiff in the mornings, but once I loosened up this m...

Last night I figured out how to feel better about my injury. I just need to run with someone who’s in worse shape than me. I met my traini...

Last night was another hard night to get my body loosened up. Figuring it was just a recovery day, I stopped after 4 miles. Normally, I’d ru...

I found this regional running publication at one of the most popular local running stores over the weekend. It took me about 2 seconds to s...

I’m happy to report that I’m feeling a lot better. My new diagnosis after all this B.S. is that I have some VERY tight muscles – especially...

Well the girls had a sleep-over at Grandma’s last night and my wife stayed at a friends’ house because they’re doing a garage sale together....

Well the good news is that I’m able to run. The bad news is that I can’t just roll out of bed and go for a run. Last night’s run required ...

A couple a weeks ago, after biking for 3 hours, I mentioned how great the Twin Cities are, especially for outdoor enthusiast. Last night’s b...

It’s “funny.” Each morning I wake up with ideas of staying in the best shape possible floating in my head. I could bike, swim, lift, really ...

Not much new to report. I didn’t do anything on Friday or Saturday – partially because my parents were in town. Sunday I was able to get i...

Crappy running = crappy blogging – writing and reading. I ended up taking Wednesday off. I talked myself out of running that evening, more b...

Monday was my first day at our new office. Now I need to work on developing all new routines. And if that includes running from work in th...

I have to keep reminding myself how beautiful last weekend was because all it did was rain on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday I stopped ...