Archive for the 'Training Runs' Category

Run 75, 2008

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Another 11 km today in 1:20:44 for a 7:20 pace. Very angry with myself. I would have made it a literal 4 minutes earlier if my @$^$$### left knee hadn’t swelled up. I am icing it now. It’s my last run before my road trip. Runs during my trip will [...]

Run 74, 2008

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Nothing special about today’s 11 km run except that it was a bit cold, windy, with rain sprinkles. I did it in 1:20:04 for a 7:16 pace. For Friday’s run I think I will ease up considerably and slow down, after all I need the healing time. Tomorrow will be my last [...]

Run 73, 2008

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Again I ran into trouble at the start of my 11 km today with low blood sugar. I drank some Gatorade and by km 5 - I was back to normal. The problem is that I am just eating a high fiber flax and bran cereal with skim milk in the morning for [...]

Run 72, 2008

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Another happy 11 km today in 1:22:52 for a 7:32 pace in brilliant sunshine. Hmmm…let’s see how many calories that would be…calculating…ah yes, that would be at least 900 calories. I am succeeding with keeping my caloric intake down below 2000 to 2500 per day. My weight should drop really fast. [...]

Run 70, 2008

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

In an amazingly-blazingly fast 1:40 (a 9:05 pace) I did…11 km. OK, so I was slower than a dead goat. So sue me. I guess my body decided that it was going out for a run on a Sunday so it must be going to be a huge run…let’s flood his system [...]

Marathon Pictures

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

It seems there was a camera problem and a lot of the pictures were lost. I wanted to get some nice pictures of Edmonton’s beautiful river valley and skyscrapers but…I guess next time I need to have a professional photographer…how about it Lisa?

More comments on my first marathon…

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Rather than edit my original post and force people to read the whole thing over and over again (like THAT would happen, ha ha), I’ll just add a few comments as I think of them. Pictures will be coming later today.
I mentioned that I was self-sufficient and used a hydration pack. I want [...]