Crosstraining

| October 30, 2004

I did my hour of crosstraining today. I don’t think the shins are ready to run yet. I want them to get as close to completely healed as possible because they just aren’t going to get better while I am running. So I did 20 minutes on the bike and 40 minutes of stepper. Tomorrow [...]

Not time to run yet.

| October 29, 2004

I downloaded Mozilla Firefox from the web and am using that to browse now.

I hate my computer.

| October 28, 2004

I have a Lexmar Jumpdrive and the damn USB ports (for some insane reason) only recognize it for 15 seconds.

I need a goal!

| October 28, 2004

Ok, so the half marathon is over and while my legs are returning to full strength (maybe I’ll get lucky and they actually will this time), I need to find another goal. Without it, I’m spinning helplessly and not going to motivate myself.

So here’s what I am looking at so far:

elbow

| October 28, 2004

My left elbow has become very dry and chapped. Its very odd. I’ve been putting hand lotion, vaseline and even chapstick on it to soften it up again. I coudn’t figure out why just that elbow. As I was sitting at the computer one day, surfing the web, I realized what causes it. That’s the [...]

Stop me.

| October 27, 2004

I’ve hit that time of day where the clock begins to slow and its far enough away from lunch that my tummy forgot what we had for lunch and its saying that the snack machine is lonely because we haven’t visited in a long time and all that spare change in my desk is going [...]

Feeling better now

| October 27, 2004

Well, my legs feel better but my voice is still gone. Still have residual soreness in my calves but my quads are happy today. The calves aren’t so bad that I am limping now, just sore. I think I will be fit for a light run tomorrow. This morning I was practicing my posture for [...]

The day after the day before.

| October 26, 2004

I spent yesterday at home, finally giving in to the cold I had been fighting all week. My throat was on fire and felt like I had been drinking hot coals. Fever. Full sinuses. And more pain in my legs than I can remember. After my first half I think I had alot of trouble [...]

The road to hell is paved with mud.

| October 24, 2004

Just in case you were wondering. ;) What a great race! I want to die now. My wife had put “Go Daddy Go!” signs all over the house last night while I was sleeping. She and my son weren’t going to be able to go to the race so she wanted to wish me luck. [...]

I’m up! I’m up!

| October 24, 2004

Actually I was up at 4 AM. My back prefers no more than 7 hours of sleep. If I try to go over this, it creates muscles spasms so painful, I can’t help but get up. I’ve tried all kinds of different types of matresses and nothing seems to help. F%$%ing back. So, as long [...]