I run, therefore I am…919 kilometers farther than I was Dec 31 2007
…but still I am really feeling the time off I have had from running. I have no idea of the time I took to run it. I had no walk breaks except to pick up my stopwatch which I had dropped at around the 3 km mark. Dropping my timer reset it [...]
Or very close to it. In spite of the perfect weather and temperature, with no wind, I felt really awful. I had zero energy. It was like my whole body was already exhausted even before I ran. My left knee started acting up and threatened to swell up on me. [...]
One of the hurdles to beginning karate is that one is barefoot and one must turn quickly on the balls of your feet. On a wooden dojo floor, or any floor for that matter, this usually translates into a painful friction burn. So to practice, one has to daily rotate quickly on first [...]
I am trying to keep my pace at or below 7:30 per km. I did the 5 km in 0:37:04 for a pace of 7:25. I guess I did it! My calf feels fine. I truly believe the ART has fixed it better than it was before the injury but I [...]
Today’s 11 km come back run had its ups and downs, but it still went better than I expected. I guess after the layoff I had, that this is now my long run. The rest of this week will be 5 km runs on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. That’s ok.
My next long [...]
Today’s lesson was intense. After the usual warm-ups we did a lot of push-ups. We also did a lot of isometric tension exercises where we place our hands or lower arms (flat on the floor) and then in a push up type position we hold ourselves up off the floor with our backs [...]
I attended this, my 7th class but I did not participate much. I was mostly a bench warmer by choice. It was exceedingly difficult for me to stand idly by on the sidelines, but I made the right choice. THAT battle was fought entirely in the mind. I so wanted to [...]
