Tag: Running
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Tuesday Run Shutdown
I only made it a mile before deciding that continuing a long, easy run would just be begging for trouble. The calf is too tight. To call it pain isn’t right. I don’t exactly wince with every pushoff, but it’s unpleasant. Could I have forced it? Oh yeah. But it would not have had a…
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Running Pains
On Tuesday morning, I went for a run. About two miles into the cruise, I felt a tightening in one of my calves. Almost immediately, I shut down the run straight into a walk. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become much better about listening to my body. Stiffness, soreness, pain: stop. A lot less do…
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Running Pains
On Tuesday morning, I went for a run. About two miles into the cruise, I felt a tightening in one of my calves. Almost immediately, I shut down the run straight into a walk. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become much better about listening to my body. Stiffness, soreness, pain: stop. A lot less do…
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Old Running Man
A year ago, I ran my first marathon after a fairly long period of building up a good base of medium-distance running. I’ve long disliked running, don’t get the “runners high”, but I realized a couple of years ago, I needed to find a good way to shed some pounds. I had been getting heavy.…
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Time Zone Geography
I was in Missoula, Montana over the summer and loved almost everything about it. But there was one thing that gnawed at me daily. It was the town’s location relative to the time zone boundary. The sun rose so late in the morning that I never felt like I had time to get a good…