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Best laid plans and all that

I know I mentioned that I’d been fighting some kind of illness that was exacerbated by the flying & the marathoning, but it pretty much dissipated as my legs healed, and I thought that was the end of it.
Last week was my final week of class #3 (A-, keeping those 4.0 dreams alive), and the [...]

Long Run Report + Training Goals

First – the report on last week’s goals. It is not pretty. This is the least amount of exercise I’ve had in one week in ages and ages.
Yesterday afternoon, I was pretty hard on myself about it. I felt like a lazy slacker with no self-discipline. I felt better by the end of the evening, [...]

VIOLATED!

I was going to do a heart-warming post today about how I learned a new swimming stroke and have been good about icing, then invite your castigation for skipping my PT exercises last night & having a beer instead, and then skipped my morning run because it was DARK, but I have more important news.
My [...]

Sadness

I don’t know if any of you read Fatty’s blog, but I have been following his cycling adventures, as well as his fundraising efforts for the fight against cancer on behalf of his wife Susan for a little over a year.
Last night Susan passed away. Fatty doesn’t want to say she lost the battle, since [...]

Winos…back at it…sadness…and some happies

Last night, I walked for about 30 minutes before heading over to my friend’s to drink my uber-expensive bottle of wine…..

We drank the bottle, chatted, and she gave me clothes. I think I owe her a lot more $9.99 bottles of wine. And this was actually pretty damn good! Much better than my usual $6.99 [...]