Yesterday, after I took my son back to his mom’s, I went out to Town Lake for a run. I decided to run the 4 mile loop on the east side of I-35.
The loop goes from I-35, out to Longhorn Dam, over the Dam, up Pleasant Valley Rd, then along Lakeshore Blvd, up to Riverside Dr, then back to I-35. I think the temperature was somewhere near 100 degrees, and I didn’t get started on trail until about 6:30 pm.
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I was dying.
Maybe because of how far …

I ran today for the first time in almost 3 months.  Well, if you can call it running since it was on a treadmill. In any case, I’m just happy that I was able to run today and had no pain in my foot.
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I’m very happy.
My stretching and cross training seems to have paid off. I saw some pictures of myself today, and quite frankly, I’m shocked. I need to do something about this state that I’m in. Maybe I need to commit to …

Well, I was over on the information page for the SA Marathon, and noticed that they have free online training sponsored by New Balance. Now, I’m a Brooks man myself, but I do likes me some free training. I signed up as a beginner runner for the training.
We’ll see how it goes.
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The rego fees don’t go up again until 8/31 and there’s a 12 mile run scheduled for 8/30. I figure, if I can finish the 12 mile run in good shape, I’ll register for …

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I’ve been swimming a couple of times in the last week or so.  I don’t remember the specifics of the other workouts, but last night I did a really simple workout.  I got out to the pool after work, so it was supposed to be a fast workout, but it ended up going long.  Here are the details from the workout:
300 swim
300 pull
4 x 100 pull on the 1:40
8 x 50 kick (1 free, 1 fly, 1 free, 1 back)
100 easy
Total 1500
After the swim, I hopped in the …