I’m not having fun, but I am getting fitter. Waking up at 4:30 am on Saturdays for running is not exactly my idea of a great time (even though I love, love, love, love my running partners) but it’s working.
I hate hills, even though I’m doing them.
To me, working out is just that–work. It’s not a bunch of fun, it’s work, and like in my life of work, I don’t miss work very often.
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Getting up before five on a Saturday morning is typically not a lot of fun. But it’s become my weekly stress relief, joining a running group that starts at 6 am at Kapi’olani Community College. A few of my Twitter friends are getting together regularly for a quick run, then breakfast at Grandma G’s, which […]
It was by far the worst Metric Century I’ve had of the three I’ve done in the last three years, even though my moving numbers were fine. My training–for cycling, anyway–was not. A week and a half after falling and injuring my right knee, worrying about some family issues and needing to meet friends to […]
We have, unfortunately, yet another family health crisis here–one that’s not entirely a secret, as I’ve been semi-discussing it on Twitter and Facebook–that could be the most serious of all. That said, I’m hoping we get a plan in the next few weeks and I can go back to blogging as usual. [ad#Google Adsense]
I dislike feeling selfish, but there’s no question I feel like I am. The time I set for working out is often at the expense of my family. When I do get vacation days, lots of them are spent taking my aunt and mother to doctor appointments. My cousin is supposedly coming to take over […]
It was better than either of my previous Ford Islands, but not the best 10K I’ve run. It was a beautiful day, I ran the whole way through, I made one pit stop to tackle two tasks: tying a loose shoelace and using the bathroom, and I lost a few seconds there. In the end, […]
Not the time of year, but what happened to me on my Wednesday evening run. Just a few tenths of a mile into a three mile run I fell for the first time I can remember. My right knee and phone took the brunt of the impact, both with more scratches than I’d like to […]
I’m slipping. It’s been an eventful week for me and I’m behind in my workouts–and I’m feeling more and more tired, maybe because I’ve been trying to cut back on my caffeine intake. I’m running on Wednesday for sure, and again on Thursday. I have a 10K on Saturday that I feel undertrained for. And […]
I’ve been desperately trying to get some training in, particularly for the Haleiwa Metric Century. It’s not been going as well as I want, although I have high hopes. The metric is in less than two weeks and I have yet to do any ride over half its length this year. That ends this weekend […]
I’m running out of time. It’s essentially April and I have several events this month, starting with Saturday’s Ford Island Bridge Run. This’ll be my third year in a row of running this particular 10K. It’s a lollipop course that starts downhill–and ends uphill. In the meantime I’ve not been training like I want to, […]