The Tao of Me

So you know how I said I was on the 15-day DL and couldn’t run this week? Well, after 10 days on the DL, I ran tonight! Yep, I I did!
I went to see Dr. Eva today and she liked my progress and gave me the green light to go! So what did I do? [...]

I just ended a week of not running, and I have one more to go.
After the Summer Breeze race, I limped around for three days. The pain in my lower left leg still lingered. It hurt most when I walked down stairs. When I saw Dr. Eva, she was troubled by this. My calf and [...]

Ever since Tuesday, I’ve been limping around, barely able to walk. Wednesday was a rest day, and another visit to see Dr. Eva. As I hoped, she had expected me to be *very* sore after the deep muscle work she did on my left calf on Tuesday. By Thursday, I felt slightly better but was [...]

We had our annual summer picnic at work today which included a little 5K race!
A couple of weeks ago I’d gone out to run Shoreline to map out a 3.1 mile course and came up with this course, which perfectly looped our picnic site:

Some photos I took from the mapping run:

* View from the course [...]

One thing I did this week was revisit some of the first posts I ever wrote on this blog, way back in 2007. I so enjoyed reading them; they took me back to that moment in time and reminded me of so many details that I had forgotten about…
I haven’t been regularly writing these days; [...]

This is long overdue.
Since I’m running the Portland Marathon this October, I decided to drive the course when I visited the area last month. I printed out the map posted on their Web site and ventured out with my aunt. She drove while I stuck my Flip Camera out the window and recorded. Seriously.
We started [...]

Its Sunday evening. Another weekend has gone by, once again, way too quickly.
The Good
We are having our annual summer event at work, which this year, includes a fun run. I’d been ask to coordinate it and I’d been putting off going to map out a 5K course. Somehow August just kinda snuck up on me [...]