Recovery Week

I love my recovery weeks. The older I get, the more valuable these become. Nothing but easy running this week.


Mon - 4 miles easy
Tue - 1hr 15min easy
Wed - 1hr 20min easy
Thu - 1hr 15min easy
Fri - off
Sat - 1hr 40min easy
Sun - 1hr easy


The workouts get tough starting next week. Hopefully I can get back to being this guy again...

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Talent Show

While our kids are trying to sound like Hannah Montana or playing Smoke on the Water on the guitar...this is what's happening across the Pacific....

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Fighting 5 Year Olds

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Growing Up Online

This is MUST WATCH TV. I watched a great edition of Frontline on PBS last night. Yes...no Celebrity Apprentice, but PBS. It documented the impact of technology on how kids today interact with each other and their parents. This is a must watch program for anyone who has children. Period.



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

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Toes

I have runners feet. My kids, nieces and nephews always freak out when I want to show off my latest black toe nail or blister. I am sure that when I am long gone someone will fondly remember me for having the worst feet on the planet. The photo of my feet was taken last week after the track workout. I wore the wrong socks.

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Tuesday Night Track Workouts

Winter is fully here and it is time to move indoors....at least on Tuesday nights. Vertical Runner hosts a group of various runners and provides them with sound workouts and target times for each runner. I on the other hand just follow what Pete tells me to do. Tonight it was mile repeats. I felt pretty good and went a little faster than what the plan said to do. I will probably pay for it in the morning with my 5am group, but so be it. Kent State is a good facility to do track work. Not too many people and a large enough track to make it worth the drive. The end result was 8 x 1 mile repeats. I averaged 5:45 per mile. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Finally.

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On the run

For the second week in a row I have had to make pit stops while running with the Saturday morning group. This is becoming a problem because the pack keeps going and I can't catch them. They are a fast bunch and it is just not very much fun finishing last. I will change my eating habits this coming Friday and see if that fixes it. Otherwise I will have to invest in this British portable 'loo".

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