Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
The Zambonis are warming up
Do you smell that? It’s damned near hockey time. It’s kind of bittersweet for me this year as traditionally we go to Hurricanes games with my mom and this year she’s just not up for it. That’s a hard fact of life to run into and one that will likely have more profound impacts as [...]
A lamentation on lost time
I’ve gotten fairly serious about running. That should be fairly obvious given recent events. Consequently my lunchtime routine has changed significantly over the past year. Prior to running I’d do whatever the hell I wanted at lunch which normally involved eating things that are bad for me while reading. I’d take an hour or so [...]
Announcing StayFitDad.com
I’ve been running quite a bit. I’ve been blogging about running quite a bit. It dawned on me a while ago that it’s possible that those who read my blog might not care to read all the running stuff. Also, I’ve not written everything I might have wanted to write about running because I was [...]
Race Report: 2010 St. Timothy’s Spring Sprint 5k
I’m a little under a month following the Shamrock Marathon which is a wee bit funny to me. A month following the Marine Corps Marathon I was struggling with sore knees and dreading my runs. 4 weeks after the Shamrock and I’m shooting for a 5k PR. However, I had no clue what the course [...]
The excitement of packet pickup day
Packet pickup day is always fun. A mixture of excitement and trepidation as the race is almost there. I picked up my packet for the St. Timothy’s Sprint Sprint 5K yesterday for the race Saturday morning. It’s a smallish local race for a good cause. I’m hoping to set a PR tomorrow — which would [...]
Reacclimating to weather
The weather in North Carolina during the summer can be brutal. Triple digit temperatures and high humidity combine in ways that makes even the short trip from the car to my office building miserable. Running in such conditions is almost as much fun as punching yourself repeatedly in the coinpurse. But, you deal with the [...]
From the “why didn’t I think of that?” department: Road ID
I don’t think too much about mortality. I think about it more now that I’m married with child but still manage to keep it at bay. But I recognize that were I, say, 10 miles out on a long run along the Tobacco Trail and I keeled over with a heart attack or somehow got [...]
The summer of speed
After over a year of constant marathon training I’ve decided to spice things up this spring and summer. It’s not that I’m in a rut, it’s just that if I switch gears a bit I think it’ll help me both mentally and physically for any future marathon training I do. For one thing I want [...]
