Sunday, February 15th to Saturday, February 21th: 20 miles

Sunday, February 15th to Saturday, February 21th: 20 miles

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 8, Tue: 14, Wed: 9, Thu: 9, Fri: 20, Sat: -

Steps:
Sun: 13550, Mon: 11511, Tue: 19737, Wed: 16277, Thu: 9504, Fri: 15997, Sat: -

I ran 4 times this week.

Sun: 7 miles, 58:22, 8:20 pace, Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-2 Pond-Ridge Run, 26F, easy, calm, 1 stop, no pain. Just your average Sunday long run. My abs hurt from my workouts on Friday and Saturday.

Tue: 6.4 miles, 53:13, 8:19 pace, 3 x Seneca Ave, 28F, night, calm, easy, no stops, no pain. My main laptop is having registry issues. I recovered the registry, then it started overheating. I am on my backup laptop for a while.

Wed: 2.5 miles, 30:51, 11:20 pace, Snow Cheap #5, 32F, dusk, light snow, calm, easy, no pain. A bit icy in the grove and switchbacks but my Yaktraks handled it quite well. I finished 67th out of 110, results here. My headlamp batteries died so I stuck behind a woman who had a bright headlamp until the end.

Fri: 4.1 miles, 34:36, 8:26 pace, FF Happy Hour, 25F, dusk, light fluffy snow, a little windy, a little hard, no stops (except for traffic), no pain. A sweet run in the snow wearing my Yaktraxs!

Sat: A lazy day. I lazed around trying to get motivated to venture forth out to Newark to see my kids and Lyons to see my father. Meanwhile, friends on Facebook were telling about their long runs ... making me feel like a slug.

Mini-Rant: Drivers who don't look right before not stopping while turning right at stop signs, people who take elevators to go up or particularly down and people who smoke. I see an elevator as an opportunity for exercise ... by not using it and going up or down the stairs, not as an opportunity for a break to wait for it to cart me up or down. I tend to park far away at parking lots during the day so I can walk into the store. Parking far away also allows me to pull out rather than back out of the parking space. Choices you make everyday help determine your fitness level.

Sunday, February 8th to Saturday, February 14th

Sunday, February 8th to Saturday, February 14th: 22.4 miles

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 21, Tue: 8, Wed: 15, Thu: 13, Fri: 15, Sat: -

Steps:
Sun: -, Mon: 14914, Tue: 21343, Wed: 8955, Thu: 9521, Fri: 7446, Sat: 5888

I ran 4 times this week.

Sun: 8.7 miles, 73:00, 8:24 pace, 1.5 Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-2 Pond-Collingwood-Seneca run, 36F, windy, 3 stops, no pain. An easy long run. What ice was left on the sidewalks of Saint Paul was very slippery.

I saw a piece from Dateline about Dr. Tom White, a runner who had a motorcycle accident in his 20s which crushed one of his legs. He recuperated and taught himself to run again. His leg was getting worse so had his leg amputated so he could continue running and living his life on his own terms with a running prosthetic. It was an article in Runnersworld a couple of months ago. Runnersworld link here, Dateline link here. Truly inspirational. It makes my running so ordinary.

Mon: 3.1 miles, 24:18, 7:50 pace, Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Ridge run, 30F, dusk, calm, 2 stops, no pain. I really wish that all drivers would actually f***ing stop and look right before turning right onto Saint Paul. I have to run on the sidewalk there because Saint Paul is 4 lanes with no shoulder. Some do and actually wait for me and some don't. How can you tell? Maybe I should just run up and down Seneca Ave with its wide shoulders. It's roughly a mile from Ridge to Titus.

Tue: 6.5 miles, 56:51, 8:45 pace, FF Cobbs Hill run, 3.5 loops, 48F, calm, 4 stops, no pain. It was warm. After the fourth stop on just the second loop I took off my jacket ... I was hot. I didn't have to stop the rest of the way. I think my stopping problem of late has been because I was overheated ... even when it was really cold. Just an idea.

Wed, Thu, Fri: I took a bit of a break from running. I just kicked back and had a bit of fun.

Sat: 4 miles, 31:48, 7:57 pace, Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Ridge run plus a bit, 28F, calm, no stops, no pain. Just a nice run to clear my head and to get back on the horse after not running for three days.

Keeping active, Doug

Sunday, February 1st to Saturday, February 7th

Sunday, February 1st to Saturday, February 7th: 19.6 miles

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 30, Tue: 21, Wed: 27, Thu: 19, Fri: 17, Sat: -

Steps:
Sun: -, Mon: 16436, Tue: 11994, Wed: 16865, Thu: 8078, Fri: 14879, Sat: -

I ran 4 times this week.

Sun: 8.7 miles, 74:57, 8:37 pace, 1.5 Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-2 Pond-Collingwood-Seneca run, 42F, windy, 3 stops, no pain. I upped my long run from 6.2 last week to 8.7 this week ... probably more than I should have. But that is just how I roll. The Super Bowl was awesome! Pittsburgh won 27-23, link here and the commercials were great too, link here.

Mon: 4.3 miles, 34:23, 8:20 pace, 2 x Seneca Ave, 28F, night, calm, no stops, no pain. A great night run.

Tue: My right Achilles tendon felt weird all day. Sometimes when I started walking my tendon would hurt. So I decided to play it safe and not run.

Wed: 2.5 miles, 31:34, 12:37 pace, Snow Cheap #4, 11F, calm, no stops, no pain. It was easier than the last race or maybe I can getting better. I finished 67th in 31:34, results here. I won a "special" water bottle during the raffle afterward. I took a lot of ribbing when I said that I was going to gnaw on the nipple ... of the water bottle. The best suggestion was that I should "gently tug and play with the nipple".

Fri: 4.1 miles, 34:00, 8:18 pace, Fleet Feet Happy Hour run, 28F, night, calm, 2 little stops, no pain. I stuck with the lead group except a couple of walking breaks but caught back up. It was a bit warmer and easier to run.

Sat: A rest day. I went to the Inikori Dance Studio Open House tonight. The instructor gave twenty minute intros of the waltz, cha cha, salsa, foxtrot, argentine tango and east coast swing. Man, the latin dances are so much faster! The weather warmed up a lot today. Right now at 10PM it is 48F and very windy! A lot of the snow melted today!

Keeping active, Doug