A Passion for Running

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life’s treating me right

passion for running category: running on Wednesday, January 24 2007

First, here’s today’s run…

Time: 1:01
Distance: 3.7 7.38 miles (pardon the dyslexia)
Pace: 8:15 min/mile
Avg HR: 166 (it seems to be getting easier to work higher within my target range)

This was a really good feeling run and I’m especially happy because it was preceded by yesterday’s 90 minutes and Monday’s 2.5 hour long run. Today felt smooth and niggly free.

Work…

Recently, I was asked to take over a project. The transition within our team was a bit awkward and I made some quick moves that didn’t go very smoothly but today, we did something that hadn’t been done within the team before and the result was that everyone came out feeling really great about the work we did. Tomorrow is day two of the experiment and I’m excited to know we’ll get more done in these two days than we could have in a month working in the mode we had been. Nice.

Home…

I love my wife. I love my kids. They make me laugh and feel like someone.

Keep treating me well Life, cuz I’m lovin’ it.




11 Comments

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Comment by 21stCenturyMom

Wednesday January 24, 2007 @

Aw shucks – that is wonderful!

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Comment by Susan

Thursday January 25, 2007 @

Awwwww, that so sweet. Life is good.

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Comment by Thomas

Thursday January 25, 2007 @

Enjoy the wave while the going is so good.

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Comment by Jim

Thursday January 25, 2007 @

> Time: 1:01
> Distance: 3.7 miles
> Pace: 8:15 min/mile

Something…doesn’t…compute. :0)

I’m guessing that’s supposed to be 7.3 instead of 3.7?

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Comment by air-run

Thursday January 25, 2007 @

And he is the “math guy” at work too!!

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Comment by Dawn - Pink Chick

Thursday January 25, 2007 @

Nice going Mark. I agree life is good, hectic, but good.

Keep up the great running.

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Comment by Ruslan

Friday January 26, 2007 @

… Treating US (hopefully) right ! Wonderful Post!!! Posting this, you made me feel like we’re a lil bit more than only running machines. I heard you kids in that mp3 file you posted couple month ago, that was funny, I had expected a serious “Interview about Running” :) so keep us doing your inspirational blog .. and I will start doing mine soon

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Comment by runliarun

Friday January 26, 2007 @

Good to find out this still happens with random regularity: life treating someone good.

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Comment by deene

Friday January 26, 2007 @

it’s good to feel like “someone”.

shortly i’ll be purchasing a basic heart rate monitor, for running and for spinning. you’ve discussed this before on your posts so I hope you’ll give some pointers while figure stuff out once i get it.

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Comment by Karen in Calgary

Sunday January 28, 2007 @

So glad to hear everythings working well for you, Mark. You deserve it!

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Comment by jeanne

Sunday January 28, 2007 @

you’re definitely one of a kind mark! Make sure that wife hangs on to you!

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