Crazy Talk and Sometimes Socks
It has to be kind of obvious by now that the whole “running” thing I was so committed to this time last year has more or less fallen apart. And by more or less, I mean, it collapsed into a tangled, stinking pile of it’s own filth like a college freshman attempting to endure Rush … Continue reading Reflections on a renewed running regime
Having wrapped up the initial drafting of Project Macaroni, you might be wondering what’s on my mind now. Well, of course, there’s the usual stuff: work, family, trying to survive any given weeknight without the supernatural ability to split my consciousness into separate pieces and be in multiple places at once. Oh, also, the “cooling … Continue reading A picture instead a thousand words
My four year-old son, The Attitude, apparently just started a new stage in life. For the last few nights, he's been slow to get to sleep and has been waking up tearfully in the middle of the night. Kind of reminds me of my twenties, but let's not go there. In my son's case, I'm … Continue reading This is (actually) 40
Sometimes it's more apparent than others that I was never a Boy Scout. No, not even a Cub. Yesterday was one of those days. Rather foolishly, I made a public commitment to slip those fancy running shoes of mine back on and get back out on the pavement. 10k races, let alone half marathons, don't train … Continue reading Running Cold: Climbing back onto the horse (and freezing)
There are few things more motivational than publicly making a grand, almost ridiculous claim (for instance, "I'm going to run in a half marathon in the next 18 month") and then failing to back-pedal away from said claim with excuses of, you know, the usual stuff: drunkenness, concussion, mind-alter drug ingestion, or temporary possession by … Continue reading The (slacking) Runner’s Confessional
It's early afternoon on January 1, 2013. After another raucous celebration to usher in the next 365 days, people everywhere are a slowly, determinedly getting themselves into motion, while trying very hard to ignore that splitting headache and the fact that vampires have, in fact, been correct about that annoying daylight all this time. Luckily, … Continue reading New Year’s Day 2013: A brief look at the year to come
In case you've been wondering, yes, I more or less dropped the ball. Remember the way back time, when the planet was still young, dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the calendar page said, "August", and I had yet to begin the November sprint of chaotic word-spewing that was NaNoWriMo 2012? Back in those sunny, happy, rose-colored … Continue reading 10 Things I Learned from Couch-to-5k
I’m sick at the moment, and it sucks. And I don't mean my typical, “holy cripes that dude needs to be committed because he’s more wrong in the head than Robin Williams” sick, or the occasional, “OMG, that did you see that guy break his arm while attempting that 1280 Double Nooner with a front … Continue reading Getting it done, sick as a dog
That is, a quick update about running. I haven't got much time for the rambling or the nonsense or the, well, blogging in general today, but there's this thing that I wanted to mention to everyone before the weekend. This morning, Friday, at the sometime shortly after proctology o'clock, I ran five kilometers. Consecutively. Using … Continue reading A quick running update
This post will be brief, I reckon, as we're currently attempting to survive an internet blackout here at la casa de Puddin. So, a) I'm thumbing this into my phone, which is admittedly a tad small for my, um, generous thumbs, and b) I don't have the ability to make sure everything, including the pictures, … Continue reading The things running can make you do
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