Now that October is in the books and November is upon us, I thought I’d do a survey of my progress in training for the half-marathon.
In the month of October, I ran on seventeen of the thirty-one days, taking a total of eighteen runs (including the warm-up jog I did before my 10K), and ran [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Progress report
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 31 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Will New York’s long national nightmare end soon?
Posted in baseball, diversion, ridiculing the NYT for sport, tagged baseball, New York Yanquís, Onion, satire on 30 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To read the scuttlebutt out of New York (I’m including you, NYT), you’d think Yankees fans had been waiting a lifetime for another chance at a World Series title.
(Actually, in the case of these tykes, they have waited a lifetime. But they can get back to me about being long-suffering Yanks fans after they hit [...]
Week 6, Run 3
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 30 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, that was humbling. Just as I was beginning to swell with confidence about my progress and prospects, I go and turn in a clunker of a time.
I’m still trying to figure out what happened. The weather was nice by the time I went outside to run: dry, a bit overcast, and a comfortable 59 [...]
Week 6, Run 2
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 29 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
‘Twas wet this morning when I went for my run. It wasn’t a heavy rain, but it was a bit steadier than a sprinkle. On the plus side, the temperature when I left was about 48 degrees, according to the thermometer on our balcony, so it wasn’t bone-jarringly cold. And the raindrops made me feel [...]
Week 6, Run 1
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 27 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
After running a pretty brisk ten miles on Sunday, my legs felt pretty good the rest of the day and into yesterday. I had some aches, especially in my calves, but nothing was howling at me, and I wasn’t finding it painful to do mundane things like walk up and down stairs (in contrast to [...]
Anze the Giant
Posted in Los Angeles Kings, hockey, tagged Anze Kopitar, hockey, Los Angeles Kings on 25 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Let the paeans to Anze Kopitar’s greatness be composed now.
Week 5, Run 4
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 25 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Brrr! We’ve had a bit of a warm spell the past week, by which I mean the temperatures have been in the 50s in the morning when I’ve gone for my run. We’ve also had some wetter weather, but I’d trade some light rain for the (relatively) warmer temperature.
I’d been a little apprehensive about my [...]
Applying myself
Posted in acamademia, tagged academic blues, acamademia on 23 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The past two days I finally hunkered down and assembled applications for a whole slew of tenure-track positions with upcoming deadlines, and today I finished sending in the remaining eight.
Counting the earlier deadlines for two jobs, I’ve now applied for a total of ten positions, all of which are tenure-track jobs.
Looking through my files, I [...]
Week 5, Run 3
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 23 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blah.
I felt well rested this morning, since I took a nap when I got home yesterday and slept in a bit this morning, which meant there was only some light sprinkling when I finally went for my run.
But my legs still felt a little fatigued from yesterday, and I just didn’t seem to have my [...]
Week 5, Run 2
Posted in running, tagged half-marathon, running, training on 22 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
My legs felt a good bit fresher this morning as I set out around sunrise for my five-mile run. The rest of my body felt a little sluggish getting out of bed, I think due to perpetually inadequate sleep. I wasn’t looking forward to running with the same relish that I often feel, but sometimes [...]
