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Well. It is now official. We are moving back to Alabama–my home state. I just accepted a job as an academic department head at Jacksonville State University. Jacksonville is about an hour from my parents and three-to-four hours closer to my wife’s parents in the Florida panhandle. This is a great family and professional opportunity…
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Sunday long run today. Ten miles. I started much earlier than recent Sundays. I was up at 5 and on the rod by 5:40. The temp was in the high 60s and in the mid-70s by the end of the ten. I had a much better run. I’ve been wearing my Camelbak filled with Gatorade…
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Sorry to be so long in between posts. But there are some major changes about to take place in my life. First, we are planning to sell our house, which means (thanks to those clutter-obsessed HGTV jerks) I have ben cleaning the &^%$#(*&^% out of my house. We rented storage space to “stage” the house…
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I want to make sure that those of you who read this humble blog are linked on my favorites lists. It is my small way of thanking you for taking the time to read my posts. Let me know if you don’t see your link. Have a great day.
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My friend, Lisa, who is writing my training plan, also is a kiniesiologist and in the past ran a testing lab. So she hooked me up for an ECG and a VO2 test. We determined my max HR and more important, my Vo2 number. I only lasted on the machine from hell for about 11…
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A friend of mine has recently caught the running bug and has been trying to hook up with me for a run for sometime. For a while I was on injury recovery and couldn’t make a run with him. But a couple of weeks ago, we finally got together for about three miles of hills…
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Regular Sunday long run today. Plan called for a 5 mile run. I set out at 7 a.m. and immediately felt it. 78 degrees (f) and 89% humidity at 7 a.m. Summer has arrived early in Louisiana. I felt much like the cow above. The great news is that I ran 5 miles for the…
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Not me. But, my 6-year old won the kids 1K fun run! He ran 1K in 4:48 and was the overall winner for the 1K. I am so proud of him. He has a competitive fire that is rare for a lot of kids. My 8 year old did not run today because he told…
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Running today in a 5K, my first race since the half. The course is flat, shady, and fast–so says the brochure. Race report later. Have a great Saturday.
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You asked for it, you got it. Here are some IT band stretches links.I use some combo of all of these stretches. http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=6099 http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/itband.html http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/itband_str.html http://www.howtostretch.com/iliotibialstretches.html
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That is the number of days until the start of the WDW marathon, the training for which I formally began today with a nice 3 mile run. I think I am fully recovered from IT issues that cropped up while I trained for the Big D half-marathon. Just to be sure, I’ll visit the massage…
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