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Training Log for the Week of June 1st 2026

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My training log for the week of June 1st, 2026, starts by trying to make amends for doing only two strength workouts in May. I got so caught up with running, hiking, and walking my daughter’s dog Maggie, that I put one of the things that is non-negotiable on the back burner. I have started June by doing a workout from one of my favorite programs, Job 1.

Monday, June 1st, 2026

This morning at sunrise, I started a Starbucks run and literally ran to Starbucks, got coffee, put it in a Thermos, and did a pretty run home with the Sandia Mountains to the east. Later, I did  Job 1 Start Strong: Back, Glute, and Core.

Run east toward the Sandia Mountains

Job 1 Start Strong: Back, Glute, and Core

AUTHOR

Rich Dafter
Prior to May 1985, I was super fit and super healthy, routinely running between 50 to 70 miles a week. Between March 16th and May 5th 1985, I ran 34:32 for 10K, 57:46 for 10 miles, 53:20 for 15K, 27:38 for 5 miles and 16:26 for 5K. I was 34 years old. On May 17, 1985, at around 5:00 PM on a Friday night, I was driving home with my then five year old daughter and we hit a van broadside. The van had been stopped in the left lane of a four lane road with its left blinker on and unexpectedly made a right turn out of the left lane directly in front of us. That accident, although we both survived, in an instant, ruined my health and changed my life. On Sunday, May 19th, I ran the Midland Run 15K (which I had run and eventually would run or try to run, 13 years in a row) and ran 53:03.

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