A2K Running Club

Never happened to me when I ran at lunchtime. Hmmm, what a thought. I ran at the Santa Monica palisades, a place I know well over the years, including when a picnic bench and, if I remember, the people there, catapulted off the cliff. Anyway, in my time, there was a short fence.
I made paintings of my photos there, should post them, which would involve my getting my printer working.

Anyway, I left the lab, parked, ran, came back to work. I don't remember such a crisis and . . . I would. I probably smelled after my run. But, hey, I've no or very little sense of smell. Plus, I was senior.

I wonder now. The lab people did rise up re a guy from Guam who had poor hygeine, and that was delicately handled.

Hey, Gail would have told me.

A running video I like - click to get to the video

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/12/06/mental-health-break-730/

Did you know: running 5k burns roughly the same amount of calories as walking 5k?

having done both, i find that hard to believe...

Here's a pretty good article on the subject.

Distance itself does not really determine total calories burned. How long
you exercise, how fast/hard you exercise, how much you weigh, and your
fitness level are the major determinants of calories burned.

I was going to go out for a long walk on Sunday, but first I promised the
Lovely Bride that we would move some furniture around to make space
for the Christmas tree.

This turned into a major untertaking.

Now the dining room table and chairs are where the sectional couch was,
the sectional is where the dining room set was, the piano is a few feet
over from where it was, a book shelf is now on the other side of the piano
from where it used to be, some bookshelves are in the backyard awaiting
demoliton, many of the books from that and other bookshelves are boxed
for donation, another set of bookshelves swaped places with the flat
screen and my vertebrae are all a little closer to each other.

I never took that walk.

At lunchtime yesterday I ran a loop of about two and a half miles. The
weather was lousy: 30's, dark and rainy. My pace was slow and plodding.
But I was happy because I jogged the entire distance without slowing to
a walk and at the end my hammies were fine.

For once I made a rehab plan and stuck to it. I must have acquired
patience. I guess raising teenagers and planting tulips will do that
for you.

gladda hear...

gladda say

How you doon?

healthy, but haven't gone jogging since 11/30.
the only workout i got this week was playing with the wet-vac for an hour wednesday after work.
no residual aches n' pains from it, i'm happy to report.
will be away this weekend, so no JBR for me.
hoping to get a 4-miler in on sunday morning...

That sucks.

yeah, but at least it got the job done...

Sorry you won't make it to the Jingle Bell Run on Sunday.
You'll miss Rhys and me decked out in our Ugly Christmas Sweatshirts.

Rhys and I ran the Jingle Bell Run today (Sunday) in 41:51. We didn't
burn up Davis Sq., but we were happy with it. Nigel, his girlfriend, her
Mom and her brother also ran.

We all met for lunch afterwards at Mr. Crepe. Good time all around.

sorry i missed it.
got my 4-and change-miler in this morning...

Good day for it. I hope to get out at noon.

For the first time in a long while I decided to try a tempo run. I ran a 2.3
mile route and tried to keep the level of effort up throughout. I did better
than I thought I would. At mile 2, I kind of eased up, but I still had a 9:23
average pace. Who knows, maybe I could actually get below 9 again?

Well, it's something to shoot for, anyway.

Capstone Photography took pictures at the Jingle Bell Run.

We are bib numbers 4221, 4223 and 4224.

Can we see them?









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