Joshua says, “you need to take a job.” I say I have a job. He says, “but you don’t make much moneys. You need a different job that will give you more money so we can buy a cool car.” Which reminds me of another “kids say the darndest things” story. After last January’s UT […]

Fabulous. Finally a normal, no-nonsense workout. No ups or downs or thoughts of quitting. Just consistent, low-key, no drama running. I don’t think I’d ever done this workout before. 2×2000, 3×1000, 4×400 with each subsequent set 2 seconds faster per 400 than the previous set. There was some confusion throughout about pace, number, groups but […]

Intended to try ten on the trail today. Two miles in felt lightheaded and blurry-eyed and just focused on not falling down. Jessica says, “Gee, wonder why?” Because by the time I ran at 10 a.m. all I had eaten was a fruit bar at 8 a.m. and some dry Cheerios at 9:30. So the […]

Last night as I was putting my boys to bed Elijah said, “you know those weird numbers, like 13, that you can’t get from any other numbers, like you can’t multiply something by two and get that number? what are those called?” I told him they were Prime Numbers, only divisible by themselves and 1. […]

Good thing we did Wilke today to offset at least a bit of the gluttony. Hallow33n is a big deal at my place of employment, which is odd if you know where I work. Lots of costumes and decorations and most of the organization does no work for a couple of days. Also, pertinent to […]

Jessica keeps clamoring for some knob, so let’s work backwards, because that’s the direction I feel I’m headed. Today I ate a bunch of cookies. Yesterday was 800s. Kicked. My. Ass. (As my friend says, “periods are comedy gold!”) Humidity at 137%, confidence level at -42 Kelvin. First lap of the first repeat with Jeff […]

I ate three chocolate chip cookies tonight. Sugary greatness. Jessica made a batch last night and I could have eaten all 12 then, and I could have eaten another 17 today. So I made another batch tonight. We made them with the fundraising cookie dough from my son’s preschool. By the way, all of you […]

Back to the Gazelles this morning, mile repeats at Zilker, and mentally it felt good to return, though physically left a little to be desired. The hamstring is still a little tender, I’m afraid to push it and it seems like it takes forever to get warmed up and “un-stiff”. My warmup now starts at […]