A Passion for Running

Running wise, it was a pretty quiet weekend. Saturday morning Aaron and I went to the Kinsmen Sport Center for 15 minutes around the track. Afterward, he took me into the gym and showed me some terrific leg exercises which I hope to do at least once a week – just gotta figure out which day will work best.

On the home front, Friday night Lori and I noticed Christopher coughing. I know we both thought “uh-oh, here we go again” because he’s been sick a lot lately. To make a long story short, he got progressively worse, none of us got a lick of sleep all weekend which ended last night with him and I spending five hours in the Misercordia Hospital emergency room. Even though we were there for a long time, the doctors and nurses were great and Christopher was 100% better when we left for home. It turns out he has a touch of pneumonia and may be asthmatic. The Doc advised we should follow-up with our family doctor to see if he is asthmatic or if it is just something that occurs when he’s sick. Of course, I’m hoping for the latter.

On the positive side of things, it looks like my achilles tendonitis is gone. I’ll take it easy for a couple more days but it feels really good!

Aaron and Lori are going to laugh at this…

I’m a passionate guy. First and foremost I’m a proud Canadian but under my cold Canuck skin boils some hot European blood – 50% Italian (Dad’s contribution) + 50% French (Mom’s) to be exact. As people around me will attest, I can be passionate and (okay, I admit it) even over-dramatic. People often make fun of the way I emphasize words and phrases when I talk (they often think I’m yelling!) and how I capitalize, bold, and underline all kinds of stuff when I write.

So what’s the point of this post? Just to say what you’ve probably already noticed – I’ve changed the name of my blog to “Mark’s Passion for Running Blog”.

I’ve been fiddling with the look of the blog – how does it look?

it looks pretty good on my laptop but I have no way of knowing about on larger desktop monitors so I’d appreciate if you let me know what looks good, what doesn’t and leave suggestions for improvments.

Looks like if I’m smart about things I may need to re-evaluate my time goal for Corporate Challenge on June 2nd. I’ve got a bit of achilles tendonitis – something I don’t remember ever having before. It must have happened this past weekend during the half-marathon.

I’d like to avoid agravating the condition so I think I have to accept that training has to be a bit on the light side this next week or so…

argh.