Goal Setting for Runners

Goal Setting for Runners

Aug 05

I set my first life goal when I was 11 years old. It was 1976, and I was in a gang…. There were five of us. We specialized in small time stuff, like skipping our cub scout meetings and chasing girls during recess. We called ourselves the Bicentennial Minutemen. That is when I learned to like running. If you were fast, you caught the girl:) I wasn’t very fast. But I did have $.25 a...

The Justification

The Justification

Aug 01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdd31Q9PqA

I didn’t go for a run yesterday because it was Friday. I don’t like to run on Friday’s because I usually make Saturday morning my long run (this morning I ran a total of 3.63 miles). I didn’t run on Thursday morning because I was tired from travelling the day before. I decided I would run on Thursday night instead. When I got to work I found out that I was attending a...

Hot weather tips I learned from my dog

Hot weather tips I learned from my dog

Jul 19

If you go running at 9:30 in the morning in July here in Phoenix, it’s hot. It was 100′ when I walked out the front door this morning for my run. The sun was literally straight up over the city, which means very little shadows to be found. Now, my guess is there is about a 20′ difference in temperature between being in the sun and getting under some shade when it’s this...