The plan for the week of April 21 2025 is to get in two strength workouts and run about 20 miles in five runs. I started the week with Get Stronger with Kelsey Heenan Day 3 Total Body 1 I finished the week with another Kelsey Heenan Get Stronger workout, […]
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Easter Sunday snow in Albuquerque is unusual, but after 153 days of no measurable precipitation, we were due for some moisture. We are well into spring and have already had one or more 80-degree days, but the forecast for Saturday said “rain/snow mix,” and that is exactly what we got […]
I ran the Boston Marathon 41 ago ago today in a persistent rain with cold temperatures. I did not dress to run that day and my story is below… On April 16th, 1984 I ran the Boston Marathon. The longest race I had run prior to that was the Nike […]
The plan for the week of April 14th 2025 is to do runs of 4 miles, 4 miles, 3 miles, and 7 miles to the beginning of the ascent of the Pino Trail. On Tuesday, the plan is to do a Get Stronger workout with Kelsey Heenan and then an […]
During the week of April 7th 2025, I did two strength workouts and 5 runs, the last of which was over 2 hours. Here are my Strava log entries for this week.
My “backyard ultra” was just a test run for creating a real backyard ultra course for here in Albuquerque. The distance has to be 4.167 miles per loop so I ran today to measure a loop course. The backyard ultra is an event that was created in 2012 by Gary Cantrell […]
The Week of March 31 2025 started out sunny but turned windy on Tuesday and ended with moisture on Friday and Saturday. 30 Day Breakaway Day 2 Upper Body on April 4th, 2025
My March 29th, 2025, 2-hour run completed three Strava Challenges – the 10K Challenge, the 100K Challenge, and the Elevation Challenge. Just like last week, I started at Tramway and Academy and ran north and then east on the trail along Simms Park Road. After heading north for .4 miles […]
It’s March 28th, 2025, and running with sciatica that may have been worsened by riding the bike on the resistance trainer yesterday. I should have google first but it might not have impacted it. Now I know that in my case it did and the run uphill and east from […]
It’s March 26th, 2025 and this run took me to the Albuquerque LDS Temple again. The run started on Paseo east of Ventura in Albuquerque and headed east on Paseo toward the Sandia Mountains. I turned south on Holbrook and then looped around the open space west of Eubank and […]
It’s March 25th, 2025, and the Sandia Mountains loom ahead of me as I head east for an out and back from my house that was primarily dirt. The Sandias tower over Albuquerque at over 10,000′ and provide endlessly changing views. In the first image is the Albuquerque LDS Temple, […]
The week of April 5th, 1982 was my first full week of training recorded in my “Runner’s Log”. It is my first full week of training since running in high school and at Rutgers in the 70’s. Between 1973 and 1982, I played soccer in Princeton, NJ and ran some […]