Posts from ‘June, 2009’

My first run since my 5Peaks race last June 13th and my second since the marathon May 31st went not too badly but certainly below par. I started out pretty good but tired very quickly. I guess I have not yet recovered completely from my last two races, not to mention that rather [...]

We had a lot of fun today, beginning with a warm up then we did some x patterns. After this we celebrated the last class of the “winter/spring” season by dividing up into teams and we played Calvinball. There were two balls and no rules except that we were not allowed to cross [...]

Before, I had my Green Belt of Adequacy, now I have been awarded my Blue Belt of Mediocrity.
The grading got on my nerves even before I started. MM and I were the only ones grading today so we had to be up front only 10 feet from the judges. It [...]

It hurts to be back. Oh my aching quads! I’ll tell you running up all those hills in my last trail race was hard work and my quads are still really sore. But after I got warmed up a bit the heat dulled the pain so I could do what I had [...]

Here we go! 14.3 kilometers of hill climbing in boiling, sweltering, muggy conditions. This year’s Devon race course is new and totally awesome. It begins innocently enough, on the flat. But only for a half kilometer or so. After that it’s up hill for I don’t know, 3 kilometers? [...]

I was working in the yard today and also maintaining the trails I have throughout my property. I never noticed this while I was mowing the trail, but MM and I found a dead fawn while walking the trails this evening. I don’t know why it died. It seems in rather [...]

My first run since the marathon was 11 km at a 7:39 pace. It was run in 15 degree C heat and was hard enough that it tells me I am not quite yet 100% recovered from the marathon 10 days ago. Still, it felt good to be back out there.
This Saturday is [...]