Self Diagnosis: Plantar Fasciitis

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I’m more than 50% certain it’s plantar fasciitis that is plaguing my ankle and foot. Let’s be honest, I run a lot and it’s not out of the realm of possibilities that I’d develop what is the most common heal pain. It comes and goes and is worse now and then. It’s not debilitating and […]

Odds Against Tomorrow

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Luck be a runner tonight… or at least on Tuesday, September 29th! That’s the day they’ll announce the lottery results for the Kyoto Marathon. I’m still hoping to do Tokyo as my big February run as an excuse to take my Mom and brother to Japan for a celebration runcation but figured I’d increase my […]

Maintenance Work

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A smart friend of mine, Jean Groce, dropped me a note wishing me a speedy recovery on my ankleness, my ankle-agility, my… there’s probably a clever word play on a tweaking ankle but I got nothing. Anyway, Jean wisely reminded me: Difficult though it is, you may have to give it some time off. We […]

Summer of Fun Half Marathon – Van Nuys, CA

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Tomorrow I’ll look at the big data, from whence we can drill into the details.  Times and conditions and whatnot.  But for today, I’m just going to enjoy the inexplicable.  Apparently I came in first for the half marathon.  It wasn’t a super fast time — maybe 1:41.  Slower than last week but faster than […]

I Choose NOT To Run!

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I’m in a funk. And I shouldn’t be. Yesterday I got to catch up with former roommate Brandon Oropallo and my brother. Brandon even brought me screen used Match Game answer cards. It was great to see him and to see him so happy – his wife and kid are really wonderful and I couldn’t […]

Ankling The Run

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So I skipped the run this morning. We’ll see if I can rally for this afternoon.  My mind says I need to go, my hear says go, but my body?  My body is saying something else entirely. I’m not sure if I’m Goldilocksing this thing — am I over doing it, under doing it, just […]

Slow and Unsteady

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I know, I know. There’s no such thing as a bad run. There’s a tough run, but there are no bad runs. Because I’m always glad to HAVE run, even if I’m not happy WHILST running. But today was a bad run. I was super slow, even with some green lights in my favor. Lumbering, […]

If it’s an ACME, it’s a gasser!

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I really, really, really, really didn’t want to go for a run today. Much like Shel Silverstein’s Lazy, Lazy, Lazy, Lazy Jane who wants a drink of water so she waits and waits and waits for it to rain, I might have waited, waited, waited for my legs to run on their own. But here’s […]