A pet peeve of mine happens to be people that ride or run on the wrong side of the road. Bicycles are required by law to travel in the same direction as traffic, and pedestrians should run opposing traffic. This time of year a lot of people invade Cape Elizabeth to train for the Beach…
When I was in college, we used to go down to Camp Winona for Spring training. 10 miles in the morning, 5 in the afternoon, hang out in Daytona or at Lake Winona the rest of the day. One day during each trip we would check to see when low tide was going to be…
Migraines are bad. Chemical problems that cause the brain to hallucinate and creates an extreme photosensitivity and aversion to noise. Once the hallucinations begin to end (or sooner), a bad headache comes on. How do you tell that you are having a migraine and not just a regular headache? Does light or noise cause your…
Last night it was a bit chilly and it has been raining for a few days, so instead of doing 880s in Baxter Woods as we had on the schedule we went to Bradley Street to run. Bradley street is similar to Baxter Woods in an opposite sort of way (if that makes sense.) In…
It does not matter how little you have recently run, or what kind of speed work you have done, there is always that little barrier that says “You must pass me or you will not be satisfied”. You can push and put in a great effort, but 2 or 3 seconds slow and you feel…
Friday night I was tired. Bone tired. I went out on a dinner and theater date, and had trouble keeping my eyes open. (I do not recommend the Blue Spoon; it was not as cheap as my friend told me it was, nor was it as good. In fact, the food was rather lackluster. Throwing…
At some point in the past few weeks, one of my coworkers saw the “Naked Boys Singing” show. She did not realize that the actors would actually be naked for most of the show. Yesterday, my lifting included 5 sets of military press. Today, I ran first thing in the morning. At lunch today, I…
Time for another night of 880s in the woods. I forgot my watch at work (after going home at lunch and grabbing it), so for my warm up I ran back to work from the college and then ran to the woods. This was a bit farther than my normal warm up, so I missed…
The Greater Portland YMCA Back Bay 5k was Friday night. Erin and I ran down to the start as our warmup, and then hobbled our way through the race. The weather (somewhat) cooperated; for a change it was not raining. There are rumors that this afternoon the sun even shone for a few minutes at…
Having finished one phase of my training, the question is whether I should take a little time off before starting the next phase. Two weeks of low-weight, high rep total body workouts, 3 weeks of mid-range reps split into upper/lower (although I skimped on the lower body workouts since I am still running and do…