Week 6 ended without a long run, as I finally decided that week 7 was going to be let-the-damn-achilles-rest-already week, so I did a long(ish) run on the low hills of San Antonio and then put the shoes away for seven days. Instead, I’m gymming it, and keeping up some good stretching.
- Published: Apr 21st, 2008
- Category: Ultrarunning
End of week 5 (yeah, already!)
Good long run on Saturday on a new trail around a local lake. Nice run; lots of people; damn hot. Otherwise, aside from a little achilles tendinitis, everything is going along well. Ran out (not literally) to North Face yesterday to pick up the oft- and well reviewed Rucky Chucky trail shoes. I’ll post once I’ve tried them out.
Thanks for all your support.
- Published: Apr 16th, 2008
- Category: Ultrarunning
Music to run by
I ran for 20 years without listening to music, preferring instead to listen to whatever was going on around me, or my own breathing. I still prefer to run that way when I’m in a strange city doing road runs, but nowadays I’m all about the beats. I usually run with a combination of electronica, cadences, and some 80s stuff for amusement. I just discovered, however, a fantastic resource for runners looking for some new beats. Podrunner, offered by Steve Boyett, has been voted best podcast for a couple of years running (hah!) on iTunes. DJ Steve does fixed beat mixes that are geared to keep runners going. And going. And going.
For many years now I've left a trail of flecks across the Internet. Just begun novels; explorations of culture, music, writing, food, the future, mountains, long distances, shallow oceans, deep canyons, oddly-composed music, even more oddly-constructed poetry, impassioned editorials, strident analysis, and a slew of images, sounds, and scribbles. Most of this has passed into the aether, waiting only for some semi-sentient algorithm to pull it from obscurity twenty years hence. In the meantime, there is this lodestone, gathering what it can.