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A Beautiful 10K

This morning was my second visit to the Austin Capitol 10K race. Last year’s run represented my first real race, then two months into my new fitness regime, and I only met my third goal (“Finish without getting hurt“) while missing the first two (“Run the whole way“, and “Finish in 56 minutes“). Last year,Continue reading “A Beautiful 10K”

Slow Seaside Half

After my first real-world half marathon in January, I ended up signing up for the 2024 race, but I also quickly decided that I didn’t want to wait a full year to give it another shot. A day or so later, I signed up for the Galveston Island Half Marathon at the end of February,Continue reading “Slow Seaside Half”

A Year of Intention

By February 7th 2022, I hadn’t yet started jogging on my treadmill, but walking, biking, and improved diet got me down about 15 pounds from my peak. A year later, I’ve stabilized around forty pounds below that.

Couch to Half Marathon: Closing My First Year of Running

On February 11th, 2022, I took my first jog on my new treadmill, a single mile at 5mph. I’d been taking three mile walks for a couple weeks before, but that jog just under a year ago was my first workout over 4mph. Yesterday, I ran the 3M Half Marathon in Austin, crossing the finishContinue reading “Couch to Half Marathon: Closing My First Year of Running”

2022 EOY Fitness Summary

I spent dramatically more time on physical fitness in 2022 than I have at any other point in my life, in preparation for my planned adventure this June. My 2022 statistics from iFit on my incline trainer/treadmill show that I walked/jogged/ran almost 700 miles after it was set up on January 24th: Perhaps surprisingly (givenContinue reading “2022 EOY Fitness Summary”

Missed Half

After last month’s races, I decided that I could reduce some of my stress around my first half marathon (Austin 3M at the end of January) by running a slow marathon ahead of time — a Race 0 if you will. So, I signed up for the Decker Challenge, with a goal of finishing aroundContinue reading “Missed Half”

Q4 Races

I finished the first section of Tommy Rivers’ half-marathon training series (in Bolivia) and have moved on to the second section (Japan). I ran two Austin races in November, notching some real-world running experience in preparation for the 3M Half Marathon that I’ll be running at the end of January. Run for the Water OnContinue reading “Q4 Races”

Real-World Running

Yesterday, I ran my first 10K in “the real world”, my first real world run in a long time. Almost eleven years ago I ran a 5K, and 3.5 years ago I ran a non-competitive 5 miler on Thanksgiving. I was a bit worried about how my treadmill training would map to real world running,Continue reading “Real-World Running”