I completed my first 5K race this morning! It’s been the culmination of 5 months of training. It was GREAT. My goal was to complete it. I wanted to finish. A secondary, less important goal, was to run the whole time…no walking. I am very proud to announce that I did BOTH! My finish time [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 18, 2008
The Running…
I’ve been very busy over the last few days. Time off between work details has been full of all kinds of chores, errands and visits from friends. All of these things have been wonderful. One thing I have had time to do is run, oddly enough. I was commenting to my Missus last night that [...]
August 8, 2008
Brief Tea Post…
I’ve been hitting two kinds of tea lots lately and I thought I’d mention it. One is corporate, one is not.
I’ve been on the lemon-zinger tip a lot lately. Perhaps it’s the heat of the summer, but that lemon and rose hip combo is REFRESHING, son, for reals. I usually do it up with one lump.
My second [...]
August 7, 2008
Rumination…
Sometimes I get a little frustrated, as I’m sure we all do, with the state of so many things in life moving at seemingly different directions at the same time. Example? Think about Lumber Liquidators (a flooring company) that widely advertises on both NPR (through “under writing,” of course…the NPR crowd would NEVER call it [...]
August 6, 2008
Mountains…
Last weekend my better half and I went to the foothills of the Appalachians, the Laural highlands just Southeast of the City that Steel built, to celebrate eight years of wedded bliss. It was magnificent for many reasons, the least of which not being the quiet.
While there I was able to get a morning run [...]
