Archive for January, 2007

A winter’s run in my new yaktrax…

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

I tested out my new yaktraks today in the Devon river valley trails. I took the same route as the 5peaks trail race last year. Total distance was about 6.5 km according to my PDA GPS route I recorded while I ran the trail. I took my adjustable ski poles with me [...]

Running in my area in this kind of weather…

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

So far this year I have run 64 km in this area and weather:
Here is a photo looking out through my front door. To the right is our bird feeder and a red mesh bag containing suet that our squirrels like to hoard. The squirrels chase away the pileated, downy, and hairy woodpeckers [...]

A nice walk and two cool things happened…

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Yesterday was a 9.5 km day and I did very poorly. I decided to run 8:30 and walk 1:30. That will be my new Galloway type interval for LSD’s. I felt really weak and slow and yes, fat. I am *gak* counting calories! Like Lisa Lawrence, I don’t believe in [...]