Posts under ‘Training Notes’

By rights, I should be saying “the kilometers, the endless kilometers,” but somehow it just isn’t as poetic. I had a fantastic training run today. I ran 19 km with an average pace of just under 7 minutes per kilometer (6:58). My goal was to run it with a pace of 7:30 [...]

Today was the first really warm day at plus three degrees C and almost no wind so I didn’t dress really warmly. I set up to record the Canada/USA hockey final game so I could watch it later (happy that Canada won the Gold medal although with two such talented teams it really was [...]

Today’s run was 11 km on the indoor track and I felt really bad going into it. It took me 14 laps before the majority of the pain I felt began to disappear. I started out with 3 laps, the first walking, the second a slow easy run, and the last one was [...]

My running really sucks, but at least I suck way faster than I used to. Today’s pace was 7:26 per km over 12 km. I can’t say that the warmer temperatures (-10 for today’s run) are making me enjoy running outside in the winter any better.
I remember my first race ever when I [...]

I thought of various other titles for this post. Titles like “It was brutal! It was really really brutal!” But Brain Monkeys won out. And today’s run was brutal. I hurt a lot. I’m just this crazy frozen lump of crazy frozen ting. I barely made it back [...]

During my 12 km run yesterday, I was thinking how often I have had to “start all over again”.
Long story short, the Greek myth of Sisyphus: Sisyphus was condemned to roll a large stone up to the top of a pointy hill, only to have the stone roll down again – for all eternity. [...]

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, I’m so excited! Why am I excited? Because tomorrow is the one day of the week when I get to run indoors, where I can wear shorts and a T-shirt instead of layers of winter running gear and slogging it through the icy and unforgiving cold, which [...]