Posted in Exercise Diary, Jogging, Running on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We had a looooong winter in Chicagoland. Between the cold and being a SAHD, my failure-to-run excuse bucket has been pretty full. Still, I’m determined to run the Chicago Marathon. I’m currently at the there’s-no-way stage, but deep down I know it can happen.
Spring seems to have begun in earnest. I felt thrilled about three [...]
Posted in Babies, Exercise Diary, Running on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I won’t claim to be back to prime blogging form (like September…seven whole posts!!), but I am still alive. I thought perhaps being a stay-at-home dad (I’m gonna have to use SAHD from now on) would have left me lifeless, but would you believe my son is now almost four months old, and my fingers [...]
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 [...]
