Monthly Archive: October 2009

Oct
25

Running Again!

Ok, so it was only 5 intervals of a minute but it was still running. And it felt good. So after 3 weeks completely off and then 6 weeks of just playing it by ear, tomorrow I start the real thing. No more sloughing off a workout because I was out late. No more just going through …

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Oct
24

Song du Jour

Just decompressing after three days of workshops on teaching math in Whistler. Also discovering the genius of Delicious. Tomorrow I’ll update how training is going (it involves running again). Until then some fun with another song du jour… Oh wake up, you’re getting old I’ve been dreaming about mountains, you’ve been dreaming about gold And …

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Oct
12

Song du Jour

Dan Mangan – Robots Oh I don’t know what you’ve been told But I don’t get out much these days Waking young and feeling old The days are no longer my own, To piss away the waking hours But don’t, don’t don’t, don’t let them go oh don’t, don’t don’t, don’t let them go to …

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Oct
04

6 Weeks and Counting…

It’s been a while and I don’t think I ever wrote this definitively but it was a stress fracture in my left foot that had me hobbling after Kelowna. Turned out that it was bad enough that it probably would have shown up on an x-ray (hence the nasty swelling and bruising after the race). …

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