Month: July 2011

  • Friday Long Run – 8 miles

    Friday Long Run – 8 miles

    It was an overcast 72 degrees today so the runner in me said “perfect, I’m gonna run long”. My employer encourages half days on Fridays in the summer so I changed my clothes and headed out for a run right from the office around 12:30. I headed up the Casco Bay bridge…and my Garmin died. […]

  • 3 in a Row

    3 in a Row

    I feel like I’m now officially back in the swing of things. I ran 7 miles on Sunday. Yesterday (Monday), I went to a Boot Camp class at my local YMCA. And today, I ran 3 miles at lunch time. It wasn’t a pretty run. It wasn’t quick. I didn’t feel like my legs had […]

  • A Post About Running

    A Post About Running

    We moved two weeks ago and have finally (mostly) unpacked. This week New England had a pretty crazy streak of hot days so I delayed my triumphant return to running for a few days longer than I would have liked. The heat finally broke a bit today and it was only in the low 80s […]

  • Our New Life is Just Ahead

    A month has gone by since my last post. That is inexcusable. Now I will proceed to make excuses…or at least try to explain. Until today, I hadn’t run in a month. It’s hard to write about running when you’re not actually running. The last time I ran, June 4th, I ran 3 miles and […]