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Saturday’s 12.2 miles – my longest run to date!


So, although I already posted about Sunday’s run – I thought I would come back to saturday.  I will admit – it wasn’t nearly as exciting however, it was noteworthy!  On Saturday, I ran the farthest I have run to

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Happy Feet! or “I love my Vibrams!”


So, Last night’s run was a nice mile run with my son.  I am very proud of him – he can do 1 mile (in 2 legs of .5 miles each with a side stretch in the middle) in 13:42! 

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Running Again!


So, I have not been allowed to run, due to my strained calf muscle – my physical therapist thought it would be wise to actually let it heal.  The only running one time in three weeks (which ended with my

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Sigh..Didn’t I play this game with the other leg?


So, I did go for my run.. and it felt AWESOME!!!!!! that is… until around 1.8 miles.  I had been running a nice steady 6.5 mph, enjoying the run – and watching for wet flower petals on the ground (those

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Injuries… To see a doctor or not?


It’s always interesting to decide how to handle an injury.  There is that question of – should I see a doctor, or wait and see what it does?  As a guy, you would think my standard response would be ” ‘eh,

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Mileage and days spent running..


A couple of weeks ago I posted that I was feeling guilty not running, even though it was a rest day.  At the time I was really trying to get used to my Vibram Five Fingers – and would do

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Even when you don’t want too.


So, Yesterday turned into one of those days.  It was beautiful out – the sort of day we have all been dreaming about all winter. I spoke to The Wife, and we came up with a  great plan to head over to

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Rest days and healing.


Rest days.  Those days we look forward to on our really hard work outs thinking “TOMORROW I get to sleep in!!!”  (Ok, so I have yet to get my butt out of bed consistently in the morning.. I do my

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KT Tape and Taking it easy…


So my free samples of the KT Tape and the Rock Tape did arrive last week, I apologize for slacking and not mentioning it sooner.  The Rock Tape company sent me two excellent little sample packs. Bright red tape with

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Video Games for fitness..


Its interesting the number of “Fitness” video games that are out.  Some are billed as such, and others have that “Benefit.” Nintendo of course seemed to start it off most effectively, with the Wii Fit – but ifyou recall they actually started

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