The St Valentine’s Day FatAssacre

 
Feb. 14, 2009
I’d been feeling some kind of sick coming on in the days preceding
the Charleston run. I felt a little better the morning of the run
and thought I’d successfully fought the thing off. However, I don’t
know if I sort of nuked my defense system with the hour and a half
of elevated pulse or if [...]

Charleston Challenge Mid-Winter Classic 15K

Feb 7 2009
Where: Charleston,IL
Time: 10:00 am
Surface: asphalt
Weather:sunny, 50F, breeze out of the south at 5-10mph
I hadn’t been for an organized run since the “mooing bear” incident.
Actually there aren’t many scheduled for the middle of winter around
these parts. This particular run had taken place for the first time
last year. It was small, as not many [...]

And then there was 2009

January is just a month to be survived if you’re trying to do anything outside. My only real running goal for this year was to try and be a little more active than last year. I don’t ask for much, and with my track record that’s a good thing. By my calculations I ran 15 [...]

A belated 2008 recap

When I said “See you in 2009″ at the end of my last post, I kind of figured it would be in about a week. However, with my great ability to procrastinate, I was able to push it about 5 weeks deeper into the year. I got skills, man!
We’ll start with a little blurb in [...]