My training log for the week of May 26th, 2025, began with Memorial Day miles through Mission Field. No delayed onset muscle soreness from Saturday’s run and I am sure that yesterday’s stretch and ab workout helped. Loop up Harper and through Mission Field (the chain in front of the […]
Monthly Archives: May 2025
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“The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience,” by Jennifer Pharr Davis is excellent. I am almost finished listening to it for the second time and it is great for training motivation while I run. It is available on Amazon and Audible, where I am listening […]
My Polar Fitness Test is taken once a month so that I can see if my training has been effective from month to month. Below are my results for May and the past six months of results. The Polar Fitness Test – A Deep Dive Into Unlocking Your Fitness Potential […]
Monday May 19th, 2025 For whatever reason, I had no DOMS to start this run, and my pace was significantly faster than it has been for a while. When I head east from my house, the view of the mountain is beautiful, but I also run on dirt along or […]
The Midland Run 15K was on May 19th, 1985. Less than two days before, I had had a bad car accident and had been pretty shaken up. I had picked up my 6-year-old daughter, Tara, and was driving home when a vehicle ahead of me made a left-hand turn out […]
My training log for the Week of May 12th starts with a mobility workout from Get Strong with Kelsey Heenan and a lot of stretching to get the soreness out of my legs from yesterday’s run. Monday May 12th, 2025 Day 6 of the Total Body Strong workouts, with just […]
How long age-wise can a person run? At 74, I don’t think that I am even close to stopping as long as I don’t put pressure on myself. I can’t run anywhere near as fast obviously, so I run for the joy of running and because I love running in […]
Using ChatGPT to create a training plan is not only easy but also interesting. Here is the plan that I got for a 20 mile week in answer to the request, “Create a training plan for a 74-year-old running 20 miles a week”. Staying Strong at 74: A 20-Mile-a-Week Running […]
My training log for the week of May 5th, 2025 started with a run long enough to get in some miles before the rain in the forecast started. Monday May 5th, 2025 I did an out and back from my house not really feeling delayed onset muscle soreness from Saturday’s […]