Posted in Babies, Exercise Diary, Jogging, Parenting, Running on September 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you’ve been following my running diary over the past few weeks, you may be thinking my first post on the subject turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy. No new posts for a week means Eric the Runner has yet again faded from glory. Well, you’d be wrong because I’m now Eric the Daddy!
My first child, [...]
Posted in Exercise Diary, Jogging, Running on September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I received my new watch, one in the Timex Ironman series, on Wednesday. This is model no. T5E231 if you’re shopping, and I got it at Amazon.com for $41. I’ve tinkered around with it, found it easy to learn, and ran with it yesterday for the first time. My wife and I have also been [...]
Posted in Exercise Diary, Jogging, Running on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m really getting excited about the possibility of substantially increasing my distance running. Of course, that’s a relative concept as long distance is a couple miles for some and 100 miles for others (like ultra-marathoners). For me, a marathon is plenty long, and I haven’t even begun to think of when I might attempt one. In [...]
Posted in Exercise Diary, Jogging, Running on September 8, 2007 | No Comments »
There’s nothing like a little professional reassurance.
Frustrated by backsliding performance in the past couple of weeks, I decided to check out a running book for some advice. I must have loaned out my old copy of Galloway’s Book on Running, so I picked up the newest version. Apparently I had forgotten everything Galloway wrote (I [...]
Posted in Exercise Diary, Jogging, Running on September 6, 2007 | No Comments »
I left shortly after my last post on Tuesday afternoon. It was another late afternoon run, which I think I need to swear off, at least while it’s still so hot. The temperature hovered around 90 degrees, and there was very little breeze. I forgot to check humidity, but it was about average.
I decided to [...]
