I spent the day in Chicago with my old Columbus friends Sande and Kevin. I haven’t seen them in more than 20 years. We had a lot of catching up to do, but nothing has changed in our friendship. It was as if I was at their house in Columbus yesterday for dinner. It was […]
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Living in the moment
Life is strange. As you get older, you are supposed to get wiser. Some of us learn from our mistakes and some of us keep repeating them. We pay for some of our mistakes and get away with others. I believe it is the mistakes we get away with that cost us the most. Let’s […]
Rest and travel week shaping up
I leave for Chicago on Wednesday. I’ll spend a day there with Sande and Kevin and then fly to India on Thursday. I don’t like to train the day before I fly. Today is Monday; hence it is rest day. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the day before I fly. Wednesday evening and part of Thursday, I […]
A day in Chicago with old friends
I thought about going out running again today but decided against it. The swimming pool equipment at our house has given us lots of headaches over the past couple of months but it was fixed today. The service folks were here all afternoon installing a new board and a wifi receiver/transmitter to allow control using […]
Pink Jeep Tours in Sedona
This evening, Missy was the most energetic she has been in months. She wanted to play, she wanted to eat, she wanted to bark, she wanted to run around in circles for no apparent reason. What she didn’t want to do was drink water. That remains a mystery. I crush up ice and feed her. […]
Ice instead of water
It was a rest and recovery day today. Not much happened. I’m mentally and physically fatigued. I may take another rest day tomorrow too. Missy is doing much better but somehow she refuses to drink water. We give her ice all day long. She loves ice. Did you know that when you freeze water to […]
Arizona Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon on Sunday
I have run the Arizona Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon for a few years now. I first ran it in 2010 on a whim (when I didn’t own a Garmin) and had a pretty good race with pretty much zero training. Since then, the course has changed. It is a lot harder now with a […]
KJZZ fundraiser, Buck & Rider
At the KJZZ wine event with Debbie On my London Marathon training schedule, today was cross-training day. If drinking wine and eating a big sushi dinner is considered cross-training, I did quite well! It started this evening with Don and Debbie at a KJZZ (local NPR radio station) wine-tasting fundraiser at a place called the […]
Mumbai > Bhubaneshwar > Puri > Kolkata > Agra > New Delhi > Ahmedabad > Mumbai
It rained. It stopped. It rained again. Then it poured. It was a nasty, wet and dreary day. Since it is Monday, I rested. I had my Zensah calf compression sleeves on all day. My itinerary for the trip to India is final now. It will be a hectic trip: Jan 30 to Feb 2: […]
Self coaching for the London Marathon
I feel better. By tomorrow or the day after, I should be back to my normal self. Missy feels better too. The 17-week training schedule for the London Marathon (April 24, 2016) began today. Fortunately, Mondays are rest days (see above figure for this week’s training schedule). Hence I rested today. I’m going to modify […]