Live Intentionally

Share Last Saturday (9/15) I was tired from a long week and lacking sleep and after a good 8 miles, I had to alternate walking and running the last 4.  But after good short runs last week on Tuesday and Thursday, I set off this past Saturday morning on another 12 mile long run with the [...]

Share I apologize again for my infrequent blogging.  I’m way over-committed right now.  And while it kills me not to blog, blogging is probably the only thing I can cut back on where someone else won’t kill me. Because of working hard and not getting as much sleep as I need, I hit a bit [...]

Share Sorry I’ve been lax in blogging lately.  Just extraordinarily busy with work, family, and church.  Saturday I ran the same 11-mile loop through several parks as I did last Saturday.  Only this time thanks to the online route mapping sites brought to my attention I knew it was 11 miles and so I didn’t [...]

Share Tuesday, for the first time in my 7 weeks of marathon training, I missed a training run.  Monday night I was heading back from an evening at my parents’ house and started to get that achy feeling that’s a sure sign of an impending fever.  I don’t even bother to take my temperature any more.  There [...]

Share Saturday morning I was getting ready for my long run - 11 miles this time.  Last week I did a 10 mile run by running a 3.3 mile loop three times so I could grab a bottle of water left in front of my house after each lap.  I looked at an online map for a way to extend [...]

Share “Conventional wisdom had long held that animal (and human) brains weren’t malleable: after a brief window early in life, the brain could no longer grow or renew itself. The supply of neurons — the brain cells that enable us to think — was believed to be fixed almost from birth. As the cells died [...]

Share This morning I did another short run of 5 miles, this time in 41 minutes, shaving 2 minutes off my Tuesday time.  I am getting close to a sentimental goal for my 5 mile time, which I’ll talk about when I reach it, hopefully next week.  Not much else to report on my training.  Looking [...]

Share If you’re drinking something, make sure you swallow first before reading this or you may end up wiping down your computer screen as I almost had to this morning…  Get ready for the newest health craze - the diet fork! “By eliminating over-indulgence, and creating a ‘chewing fitness’ dieters can now assist in metabolism by [...]

Share A couple of weeks ago in one of the forum discussions I initiated about The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer Book, someone commented, “Still trying to figure out why a non-runner would be training for a marathon…”  To which I replied: “Because it’s the quintessential personal challenge. It’s an extreme mental and physical challenge and I [...]

Share Saturday I crossed the 10-mile milestone with my long run.  One of the cool things about the training is that every week I set a new personal distance record.  I found the discussion about associative and disassociative mental techniques which were initiated after my last update to be very interesting.  I think I have a lot [...]