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Carol on September 6th, 2009   Tags: , , , , 8 Comments »

I’ve been kind of klutzy my whole life.    I always blamed it the lack of peripheral vision that goes along with wearing eyeglasses.     I had  lasik surgery 4 years ago, and well, um, I’m still a klutz!   However, I do think all those years of tripping has given me a knack for falling in [...]

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Carol on September 4th, 2009   Tags: , , , 5 Comments »

I had another great session with triathlon coach, Stacey Richardson.      Stacey has an incredible knack for zoning into exactly what I need.  Exactly where I am making mistakes. And it’s wonderful to learn my mistakes, so I can continue to improve. I was showing her my treadmill workout from this morning, which was an interval [...]

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Carol on August 25th, 2009   Tags: , , , , 1 Comment »

I feel a lot better today!   Which reminds me again of when I was pushing past that 4 mile mark.     Back then I concluded that I wouldn’t worry too much about aches and pains in my body as long as they were gone by the next workout.  Which for running, should be just every [...]

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Carol on August 24th, 2009   Tags: , , , 3 Comments »

Okay, so I’m in quite a lot of pain today after yesterday’s 15 mile run.    It reminded me of my humble beginnings, when I was building up to 4 miles.   That was a hard milestone to get past.    I was in a lot of pain back then.   I had to walk that delicate line between [...]

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Carol on August 23rd, 2009   Tags: , 4 Comments »

Not long ago, I wrote about my preference for hilly bike courses.   Now I realize that  I don’t like running on flat terrain either!     I ran on the American Tobacco Trail today.  It’s a lovely shaded trail built on an old railroad line.    It’s really a beautiful scenic route through the woodlands near [...]

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