Sunday, March 8th to Saturday, March 14th

Sunday, March 8th to Saturday, March 14th

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 8, Tue: 12, Wed: 20, Thu: 14, Fri: -, Sat: -

Steps:
Sun: -, Mon: 10849, Tue: 22436, Wed: -, Thu: -, Fri: -, Sat: -

I ran 4 times this week, 21.7 miles

Sun: rest day. Went out to the GVH club meeting for some food and beer.

Mon: laundry night ... not exciting but necessary so I could have clean underwear, socks and running clothes.

Tue: 7.1 miles, 58:54, 8:18 pace, FF Cobbs Hill run, 40F, 3.5 loops, light mist, calm, 2 stops, no pain. Gotta love the Cobbs Hill run! My knees ached a bit afterward. Maybe I need to run some trail.

Wed: 5.5 miles, 63:58, 11:38 pace, Late Night Gallop in Mendon Ponds, 34F, dark, muddy, windy, walked the hills, no pain. I don't know if I like running trails at night. I lost my pedometer somewhere in the mud of Mendon Ponds.

Thu: 5 miles, 40:10, 8:02 pace, Social run, 24F, calm, 1 stop, no pain. Started out slow, Pavel caught up with me and we picked up the pace. Nice time at the Social afterward. Now if I can just remember all the names!

Fri: 4.1 miles, 32:15, 7:52 mile, FF Happy Hour run, 30F, 2 stops, no pain. Started out slow, picked it up after I got my wind. I bought a new pair of running shorts and sunglasses at Fleet Feet.

Sat: I decided to take a rest day after 4 days of running instead of running Johnny's Runnin' of the Green 5 mile in downtown Rochester. From what I can gather, a good time was had by all. I went out to see my oldest son and father. I also enriched the local economy by shopping at WalMart, Walgreens and Wegmans ... gotta shop sometimes. I have a new pedometer now. My daughter had her own adventures taking a visit to see friends down at Houghton College ... wrong turns to and from!

Keeping active, Doug

Sunday, March 1st to Saturday, March 7th

Sunday, March 1st to Saturday, March 7th

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 23, Tue: 13, Wed: 20, Thu: 17, Fri: 16, Sat:

Steps:
Sun: -, Mon: 10089, Tue: 16365, Wed: 18334, Thu: 11234, Fri: , Sat: 22281

I ran 4 times this week, 36.3 miles

Sun: 12.6 miles, 1:47:45, 8:33 pace, 2 stops, up to the lake on St Paul + more, 22F, sunny, a little windy, 2 stops, no pain. I forgot to turn on my Garmin right away, I had 9.7 miles in 82:57. I used mapmyrun.com to estimate my mileage.

Tue: 6.1 miles, 52:52, 8:40 pace, FF Cobbs Hill run, 20F, a little windy, 1 stop, no pain. Cold with low wind chill. Brrr! But then again, any run is sweet!

Wed: 3.3 miles, 34:15, 10:23 pace, Snow Cheap #6, 24F, hilly and icy, no pain. I finished 49th out of 114, results here. My Facebook addiction saved me from missing the race. I came home, sat down, fired up the laptop, checked out Facebook and saw that someone was going to the Snow Cheap finale. It was Wednesday, 5:08PM ... I realized that it was Wednesday and that I had better get moving to make the race. It was a blast ... no snow but icy in the grove. I slid on my butt down one hill. Luckily someone loaned me a pair of Yaktraxs which helped out a lot.

Thu: A true rest day

Fri: I intended to run but my ex had car trouble so I had to go down to Ithaca College to pick up my oldest son for spring break. A long drive. So I felt I needed to do a long run on Saturday.

Sat: 14.3 miles, 120:52, 8:27 pace, run around the bay run, 35 to 45F, calm, some stops, no pain. I found out this run from the grtconline.org website, map here, plus people have recommended that I do social runs. It sounded fun so I did it. Basically you run around Irondequoit Bay with some big ups and downs on some little known roads on the west side (where you are right by the bay) and a long downhill and uphill at the bottom on Empire Blvd. I did shorten it a bit by heading all the way up Bay Rd to Lake Rd. All in all, a nice, pretty run early in the slightly foggy morning with a bit of sun in the middle. BTW, I saw some fishermen who started to walk(!) out onto the bay to go ice fishing ... a day after it was 60F!

I recovered by lazing around, spending time on Facebook, then watching the latest online episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse. I did manage to get up and take a shower and get out of the apartment.

I went out and watched the Newark basketball teams in their respective sectional finals ... both teams were seeded 2 playing the 1 seed. I saw the Newark boys lose to Pittsford Sutherland, 40-41 at the Blue Cross Arena, links here and here. When I got there, Newark was down 0-10. Newark had its chances with several 2 point leads in the 4th quarter, plus an open 10 footer with 12 seconds to go that hit all parts of the rim twice before bouncing out. What really sealed their fate was missed foul shots in the fourth quarter. After a bite to eat at Wendy's I went out to the Gates-Chili high school to watch the Newark girls play Pittsford Mendon. They won 47-45 in OT, links here and here. It looked like Newark would win handily with a 10 point lead in the 3rd quarter. But Mendon held Newark to 1 point in the 4th quarter to knot the game at 39 at the end of regulation. It was close in OT with the winning basket by Newark almost at the buzzer.

Keeping active, Doug

Sunday, February 22nd to Saturday, February 28th

Sunday, February 22nd to Saturday, February 28th
I ran 16 out 28 days in February, 89 miles, 5.6 miles/run
I have run 39 out of 59 days so far, 194.4 miles, 5 miles/run

Sun: 9.6 miles, 1:19:55, 8:19 pace, 1.5 x Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-2 Pond-Ridge run, 28F, easy, sunny, calm, 2 stops, no pain. Just an easy Sunday to prove to myself that I am not a slug.

Tue: 6.8 miles, 57:22, 8:26 pace, FF Cobbs Hill run, 20F, easy, calm, 2 stops, no pain. I took the back way to Cobbs Hill with 2 stops. But once I got there, I had no trouble with 3 loops and the run back on Monroe Ave. Strange.

Wed: 6.7 miles, Frenzied Late Night Crawl in the Woods at Mendon Ponds, 45F, easy, calm, multiple stops, no pain, 1 fall. A nice but exhausting night run on the trails with some running friends. Some of the trails were icy, my Yaktraxs helped.

Thu: I went out to Newark to work on my daughter's laptop. It had locked up on her on Tuesday so she abruptly powered it down. Well, it wouldn't boot back into XP. When she booted into Safe Mode, it was stopping at mup.sys. I Googled that and found that most people (not all) booted into Recovery Console and ran Chkdsk to solve it. Since I don't know the administrator password of her HP laptop from Houghton I booted from a BartPE CD to run Chkdsk. It took 2 hours, found some bad clusters (one in the software registry) and booted into XP with some slight hesitation on the first Safe Mode boot. She was happy ... no Internet for 2 days! If her laptop could boot from an USB floppy drive I do have a floppy that would hack her administrator password. I might test it sometime. I also really should dejunk it so it runs faster.

Fri: 4 miles, 31:56, 7:59 pace, FF Happy Hour run, 28F, easy to a little hard, a little windy, no stops, no pain. I started slow, then picked it up once I crossed Highland Ave. I was surprised at the pace, it didn't seem I was going that fast. I have a small bruise on my left hip where I fell on Wednesday but it doesn't bother me when I run.

Sat: I went to the Winter Doldrums, No Holidays, Im Bored, I need something to do Party out at Mendon Ponds. I brought some Wegmans Oatmeal Raisin cookies (being cooking challenged) as my dish to pass. I ate a lot of different food including some venison. Then I went down to Ithaca College to Michael's concert. A long drive. I definitely need to run tomorrow to run off all the calories from today.

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

Sunday, January 25th to Saturday, January 31st

Sunday, January 25th to Saturday, January 31st: 25.5 miles
Month of January: 105.4 miles, I ran 22 out of 31 days, 4.8 miles/run

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 7, Tue: 9, Wed: 10, Thu: 20, Fri: 15, Sat: -

Steps:
Sun: -, Mon: 14797, Tue: 17806, Wed: 8370, Thu: 18876, Fri: 15722, Sat: -

I ran 5 times this week.

Sun: 6.2 miles, 51:15, 8:16 pace, 1.5 Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-Collingwood-Seneca Run, easy, 14F, sunny, a little windy, 1 stop, no pain. A great Sunday morning run ... kind of makes up for being a slug yesterday.

Mon: 4.2 miles, 35:24, 8:26 pace, Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-Ridge Run, easy, 15F, night, calm, no stops, no pain. Icy sidewalks and driveways.

Tue: 6.1 miles, 53:05, 8:42 pace, Fleet Feet Cobbs Hill run, easy, 21F, calm, 2 stops, no pain. The sidewalks on Monroe Ave to and from Cobbs Hill were very icy. Baked a batch of cookies. Mmmm ... oatmeal raisin cookies!

Wed: Baked another batch of cookies. Need to remember to turn the timer on when baking cookies. The second batch are a bit ... crispy.

Thu: 4.9 miles, 44:08, 9:00 pace, Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-Collingwood-Seneca Run, easy, 24F, dusk, a bit of snow on the sidewalks, no stops, no pain. Nice run, a little hot outside.

Fri: 4.1 miles, 34:30, 8:25 pace, Fleet Feet Happy Hour run, 18F, easy, snowy sidewalks on Monroe Ave, no stops, no pain.

Sat: My youngest son, David, had his appendix out at 3AM on Friday morning. He is doing well now. He was in some pain from the three little incisions. I also saw my father at the Wayne County Nursing Home in Lyons.

Sunday, January 18th to Saturday, January 24th

Sunday, January 18th to Saturday, January 24th: 22.3 miles

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 17, Tue: 6, Wed: 20, Thu: 9, Fri: 20, Sat: -

Steps:
Sun: -, Mon: 12848, Tue: 21879 Wed: 16438, Thu: 10381, Fri: 14091, Sat: -

I ran 5 times this week.

Sun: 5.1 miles, 45:04, 8:50 pace, 1.5 Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-Collingwood-Seneca, Slow, 25F, calm, slushy, 3 stops, no pain. The run was harder than usual, the snow was slushy and hard to run through. The rest of the day was a vegfest. I watched the divisional championship football games between Arizona and Philadelphia (Arizona won) and Pittsburgh and Baltimore ( Pittsburgh won). So it's Arizona vs Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl.

Mon: 4.1 miles, 35:30, 8:40 pace, Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-Collingwood-Seneca, easy, 20F, dusk, calm, no stops, no pain. A little bit slushy, a good run. Nothing unusual.

Tue: 6 miles, 54:03, 9:00 pace, Fleet Feet Cobbs Hill run, 3 loops, 15F, a little windy, multiple stops, no pain. I am troubled with my lack of wind lately. It seems I can't keep running when it gets cold. Fleet Feet had a spur of the moment Inaugural Ball with champagne, after running food and nice conversation.

Wed: 3 miles (I guess), 44:36, 14:52 pace, FF Snow Cheap #3, 18F, wore my Yaktrax, no pain. I finished in 44:36, 109th out of 129, results here. The snow was kind of deep and tough going at the start. I ran better on the hard packed snow when there was some. The hills were steep and slippery. I got separated and got lost so I estimate I added 0.6 miles to my run, let's just call it 3 miles ... oh well, it's all good. I wore ankle supports to help protect me from kicking my inside ankles which seemed to help. My trail shoes and socks were soaked. My feet were cold when I got back to my apartment so I changed right into my sweats and thawed out with some hot chocolate. One thing about running events at night ... if there is food afterward you can usually eat enough so that you don't need to fix supper!

Fri: 4.1 miles, around 34:00, 8:20 pace, Fleet Feet Happy Hour run, 40F, easy, a little windy, 4 stops, no pain. Not really happy with my running as of late. I can't seem to keep my breath and have to stop every mile or so! Kind of frustrating. But I am out there in all kinds of weather ... which is more than most people can say.

Sat: The temperature really dropped from last night to today. It was 10F today, right now it is 6F according to Weatherbug. Another rest day. Tried to go through the stuff in my apartment. Got some stuff done ... not as much as I hoped. I moved some boxes of books down to my basement storage unit. For some reason, I can't get rid of books. I can read them years and years ago but I don't want to get rid of them or give them away. Another Saturday night spent watching TV and surfing the internet.

Keeping active, Doug

Sunday, January 11th to Saturday, January 17th

Sunday, January 11th to Saturday, January 17th: 22.5 miles

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 16, Tue: 17, Wed: 19, Thu: 16, Fri: 12, Sat: -

Steps:
Sun: 9802, Mon: 13857, Tue: 17879, Wed: 14284, Thu: 8234, Fri: 10479, Sat: -

I ran 5 times this week.

Sun: 4.1 miles, 2 x Seneca Ave, 34:03, 8:19 pace, 18F, easy, calm, no stops, no pain. It snowed about 4 to 6 inches overnight so I got out early and got a nice, easy run in before I went out to Newark to see my kids and Lyons to see my father. Karen went back to Houghton College. About 11AM I realized that I totally forgot about the Polar Cat #3 in Webster. Oh well!

Mon: 4.2 miles, 2 x Seneca Ave, 32:56, 7:50 pace, 26F, easy, dusk, calm, no stops, no pain. A nightly run is becoming a healthy habit.

Tue: 6 miles, Fleet Feet Cobbs Hill run, 25F and falling, easy, night, windy, light snow, 3 loops, 3 stops, no pain. The cold snap was making its way in, the temp was falling, light snow was falling, the wind was picking up. I took it easy, no IT band wrap, slipping and sliding on the sidewalks to and from. I went out to The Otter Lodge afterward with fellow FF runners.

Wed: Rest Day. Didn't get as much done as I would have liked. I gave blood today for the 66th time (64th according to the official record). My pulse was 50, blood pressure was 116/64. You can sign up to donate here.

Thu: 4.1 miles, Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo-Collingwood-Seneca run, 10F, calm, no stops, no pain. Nice run out in the cold, sweet! I did my laundry ... how exciting!

Fri: 4.1 miles, Fleet Feet Happy Hour run, 5F, a little windy, easy, multiple stops, no pain, 8:47 pace. It was windy during the day sending the wind chills plummeting below zero. But either I was shielded during the run or the wind died down. I was overdressed ... drenched when I got back to Fleet Feet.

Sat: Rest Day. I took my oldest son, Michael, back to Ithaca College. I stopped and saw my father at the Wayne County Nursing Home. I also enriched the local economy. I thought about going out for a run but vegged instead.

Keeping active, Doug

Sunday, January 4th to Saturday, January 10th

Sunday, January 4th to Saturday, January 10th: 23.5 miles

Flights (24 steps/flight)
Sun: -, Mon: 15, Tue: 12, Wed: 8, Thu: 15, Fri: 12, Sat: -

Steps:
Sun: 13701, Mon: 9171, Tue: 6621 (not on run), Wed: 10750, Thu: 7008 (not on run), Fri: 8361 (not on run), Sat: -

I ran 5(!) times this week.

Sun: 6.5 miles, 3 x Seneca Ave, 50:25, 7:45 pace, a little hard, 20F, sunny, calm, no stops, no pain, sweet! I just went up and Seneca Ave from Ridge Rd to Titus three times. I didn't chance the sidewalks ... just keeping to the wide shoulders of Seneca. After a bit I went out to Newark to see my kids and my father in Lyons.

Mon: I took a break from running, doing unimportant stuff like paying bills. I also copied Dark Knight and then tested the copy.

Tue: 6.0 miles, Cobbs Hill run - 3 loops, 50:20, 8:23 pace, easy, 30F, night, calm, a bit icy, no stops, no pain. A bit icy on the sidewalks to and from. I had a late start ... had to search for the top to my headlamp after I dropped it.

Wed: 2.7 miles, Snow Cheap #2, 31:55, 11:49 pace, easy, night, calm, no pain, slipping and sliding. An easy trail run full of slushy, slipping and sliding goodness around Cobbs Hill Park. I was 61th out of 138, results here.

Thu: 4.2 miles, Seneca-Titus-St Paul-Zoo run, 35:56, 8:33 pace, 22F, easy, night, light snow, calm, no stops, no pain. Yes, it was cold. Yes, it was lightly snowing. Yes, the run was sweet.

Fri: 4.1 miles, Fleet Feet Happy Hour run, 33:15, 8:06 pace, 20F, a little hard, full moon, 1 stop, no pain. A nice full moon for a frosty night! I wore my headlamp and blinker so I was seen for sure! It's all good!

Sat: A rest day after 4 straight day of running. I lazed around ... I should have done stuff but didn't. I did manage to keep busy ... sitting on my butt, surfing the web and chatting.

Lately all my runs have been sweet. I have running pain-free and have been just running for the sheer enjoyment of being out there ... in the moment.

Keeping active, Doug