"That's been one of my mantras - Focus and Simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
Steve Jobs
ReInventing Mojo - Midbrow Humor. NSFW (Definitely Not Safe For Work)
Monday, June 04, 2012
Friday, June 01, 2012
The Run Streak
It's June 2012 and the streak continues. Today is Day 539.
Why do I run and why streaking? Is it good for your body to not have any rest days?
This running streak thing just started on December 11, 2010 at West Stride Running store in West Buckhead. I really didn't plan it. Back then I've been running for only about 18 months, two to four times a week. For about 10 years before that, sporadically I used to go to the gym, mostly on the weekends. I was basically a "weekend warrior", unfocused, unmotivated and lazy. Running was just an afterthought for me at the time even though I played soccer, basketball, and inline skate during Skate Nights. I ate a lot of junk food and got to almost 160 pounds which was the heaviest that I ever weighted.
In the summer of 2009, after turning 44, I joined the Atlanta Track Club to train for this Peachtree Road Race-the world's largest 10K race with 60,000 participants. The in-training group forced me to run every Saturday morning for 11 weeks before the race itself. We would have a training plan and supposed to run during the week too. I ran in some of the 5K Grand Prix races. I think I caught the "running bug" that fateful July three years ago. This year's race will be my 5th PRR overall and 4th in a row. I'm looking forward to running it with my wife who will be joining me for the first time ever. We've been together for almost 20 years (man, how time flies!!!) and I finally got her to go run it with me this year. The reason why she has never done it before, in her words: "I'm not a runner, running hurts my knees." She joined the Atlanta Track Club and has done 7 races so far this year. Hey, if we're addicted to anything, running is not that bad of a vice.
These days running just become automatic for me. I chose to run because I like it. I like how it makes me feel afterwards, that endorphin euphoria runner's high. I like the dedication it takes, I like the satisfaction and freedom it gives me. Yeah, it's that good 'ol American freedom-I do whatever whenever however I want. I run because it's my meditation, my zen time. I wake up every day thinking about my next run. I got a Garmin GPS watch and synced it with DailyMile, an online website to keep me accountable. I don't get overly obsessive about pace or distance or training plan any more. I try not to run in the same place two consecutive days. Really the trick to it all is knowing when to slow down and when to stop. Most of my runs are around 3,4 miles long. Some days if I feel like it I would run for an hour or 6 to 7 miles. My longest run ever was 10 miles a few months back. I have no desire to do a Marathon or even half of one. I love running but long-distance self-torture just ain't my thing. I don't think I'm one of those people who love to brag about how far, how long or how fast they can run.
My favorites running routes are the Silver Comet trail, the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Tolleson Park, Atlanta Road, Alpharetta Greenway, Heritage Park, Oakdale Park, Piedmont Park and Swift-Cantrell Park in Kennesaw. Most days I don't even know where I'll be running. But you can bet that I will go out for that minimum 1 mile/10-minute pace, anything after that is just the icing on the cake.
Why do I run and why streaking? Is it good for your body to not have any rest days?
This running streak thing just started on December 11, 2010 at West Stride Running store in West Buckhead. I really didn't plan it. Back then I've been running for only about 18 months, two to four times a week. For about 10 years before that, sporadically I used to go to the gym, mostly on the weekends. I was basically a "weekend warrior", unfocused, unmotivated and lazy. Running was just an afterthought for me at the time even though I played soccer, basketball, and inline skate during Skate Nights. I ate a lot of junk food and got to almost 160 pounds which was the heaviest that I ever weighted.
In the summer of 2009, after turning 44, I joined the Atlanta Track Club to train for this Peachtree Road Race-the world's largest 10K race with 60,000 participants. The in-training group forced me to run every Saturday morning for 11 weeks before the race itself. We would have a training plan and supposed to run during the week too. I ran in some of the 5K Grand Prix races. I think I caught the "running bug" that fateful July three years ago. This year's race will be my 5th PRR overall and 4th in a row. I'm looking forward to running it with my wife who will be joining me for the first time ever. We've been together for almost 20 years (man, how time flies!!!) and I finally got her to go run it with me this year. The reason why she has never done it before, in her words: "I'm not a runner, running hurts my knees." She joined the Atlanta Track Club and has done 7 races so far this year. Hey, if we're addicted to anything, running is not that bad of a vice.
These days running just become automatic for me. I chose to run because I like it. I like how it makes me feel afterwards, that endorphin euphoria runner's high. I like the dedication it takes, I like the satisfaction and freedom it gives me. Yeah, it's that good 'ol American freedom-I do whatever whenever however I want. I run because it's my meditation, my zen time. I wake up every day thinking about my next run. I got a Garmin GPS watch and synced it with DailyMile, an online website to keep me accountable. I don't get overly obsessive about pace or distance or training plan any more. I try not to run in the same place two consecutive days. Really the trick to it all is knowing when to slow down and when to stop. Most of my runs are around 3,4 miles long. Some days if I feel like it I would run for an hour or 6 to 7 miles. My longest run ever was 10 miles a few months back. I have no desire to do a Marathon or even half of one. I love running but long-distance self-torture just ain't my thing. I don't think I'm one of those people who love to brag about how far, how long or how fast they can run.
My favorites running routes are the Silver Comet trail, the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Tolleson Park, Atlanta Road, Alpharetta Greenway, Heritage Park, Oakdale Park, Piedmont Park and Swift-Cantrell Park in Kennesaw. Most days I don't even know where I'll be running. But you can bet that I will go out for that minimum 1 mile/10-minute pace, anything after that is just the icing on the cake.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Saturday, April 07, 2012
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Current Rotation
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| Top Left: Altra Instinct, K-Swiss Kruuz, Brooks Mach 11 spikeless,Branca Huaraches Brooks Green Silence, Mizuno Wave Ronin 2, Brooks T6 flats, Payless water shoes |
Monday, April 02, 2012
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Those who can't...
Those who care, teach.
Those who can't teach, become Administrators.
Happy April Fool's Day. Come on!
Those who can't teach, become Administrators.
Happy April Fool's Day. Come on!
Friday, March 30, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Skechers New Running Shoes
My next pair of running shoes: Skechers Go Bionic
Zero drop, flexible, lightweight (coming this July)
Zero drop, flexible, lightweight (coming this July)
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
3 Years o' Running
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| ATC Hearts & Soles 2010 |
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| Gobble Jog 2009 |
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| Chattahoochee Road Runners 5K -2011 (PR=22:52) |
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Don't Stop the Linsanity!
Art is unique because it is free of practical concerns and is THEREFORE
free to explore and express what CAN be expressed by no other activity.
Richard Serra (Minimalist sculptor, Process Art Movement)
Monday, February 06, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Tea Time
God works in mysterious ways, doesn't she?
Final score: New England 45- Denver 10. It wasn't even that close.
Final score: New England 45- Denver 10. It wasn't even that close.
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| "Dear Lord, please show me how to throw a perfect spiral like Tom Brady." |
Monday, January 09, 2012
Keep on Runnin'
Run Streak Day #395
5 Miles at the Silver Comet trail in Smyrna, Georgia
5 Miles at the Silver Comet trail in Smyrna, Georgia
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| Just another typical Monday after work run at the local trail OK, not really, this was taken in Washington DC this summer. Pride Week. |
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Jesus Walked!
God Hates Runners.
Love Jesus- Stop Running!
This is hysterical and offensive as hell. So there's your WARNING.
From the LA Marathon (2011?)
Love Jesus- Stop Running!
This is hysterical and offensive as hell. So there's your WARNING.
From the LA Marathon (2011?)
| LA Marathon | UCBcomedy.com |
| Watch more comedy videos from the twisted minds of the UCB Theatre at UCBcomedy.com | |
Monday, January 02, 2012
Resolution Run 5K
Whatever happened to run relaxed?
Need to relax the face, jaw, shoulders and hands.
Stay relaxed and centered. #ChiRunning.
Need to relax the face, jaw, shoulders and hands.
Stay relaxed and centered. #ChiRunning.
Sunday, January 01, 2012
New Year (The Beginning of the End of the World)
So it's 2012.
To ring in the new year this morning my wife and I went and ran at the Atlanta Track Club's Resolution Run 5K in Kennesaw. It was unusually warm- 60 degrees F at 11 AM. The humidity felt like 100%. There were lots of people, probably 2000+. This race marks my 3rd year of running. I actually started two and a half years ago at the Peachtree Road Race 2009.
I have always been an athlete as long as I can remember. My earliest childhood memory was of me playing soccer barefoot outside in the dirt with my friends when I was about 4 or 5. Growing up in a third world country I never wore any shoes or footwear besides flip-flops or sandals- the kind that was made from recycled car tires. I loved the feel of the dirt and the wet asphalt under my feet when it rained, which it did a lot along the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam. I remember running, riding bikes, playing soccer, jumping ropes and just walking for fun outside 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, literally from sun up to sun down. We did have a TV with one station which broadcasted in black & white from 7 to 12 at night. Yes, I'm that old. (Forty cough six)
Fast forward to some 40+ years later, and I now have a newfound love for barefooting or going sockless whenever I can. I run in minimalist shoes/ zero drop shoes for about a year now. I go barefoot indoors as much as possible, and wear flip-flops or sandals even in the winter. It must be my midlife crisis. Some men get convertible sports car or cosmetic surgery or have a mistress, I run. Every. Single. Day. I didn't set a personal record (PR) or anything like that today but it just felt great achieving my goal of running every single day for the past 387 days. KISS. Keep it simple sweetie.
2012 Resolutions:
#1 Run every day.
#2 Eat healthy.
#3 Live simpler.
#4 Keep a sense of humor.
#5 Be more pretentious.
#6 Act my age. Not!
#7 Will run no Marathon at all, not even half of one.
#8 Will stop posting on facebook when I'm drunk.
#9 Drink less beer. More wine.
To ring in the new year this morning my wife and I went and ran at the Atlanta Track Club's Resolution Run 5K in Kennesaw. It was unusually warm- 60 degrees F at 11 AM. The humidity felt like 100%. There were lots of people, probably 2000+. This race marks my 3rd year of running. I actually started two and a half years ago at the Peachtree Road Race 2009.
I have always been an athlete as long as I can remember. My earliest childhood memory was of me playing soccer barefoot outside in the dirt with my friends when I was about 4 or 5. Growing up in a third world country I never wore any shoes or footwear besides flip-flops or sandals- the kind that was made from recycled car tires. I loved the feel of the dirt and the wet asphalt under my feet when it rained, which it did a lot along the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam. I remember running, riding bikes, playing soccer, jumping ropes and just walking for fun outside 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, literally from sun up to sun down. We did have a TV with one station which broadcasted in black & white from 7 to 12 at night. Yes, I'm that old. (Forty cough six)
Fast forward to some 40+ years later, and I now have a newfound love for barefooting or going sockless whenever I can. I run in minimalist shoes/ zero drop shoes for about a year now. I go barefoot indoors as much as possible, and wear flip-flops or sandals even in the winter. It must be my midlife crisis. Some men get convertible sports car or cosmetic surgery or have a mistress, I run. Every. Single. Day. I didn't set a personal record (PR) or anything like that today but it just felt great achieving my goal of running every single day for the past 387 days. KISS. Keep it simple sweetie.
2012 Resolutions:
#1 Run every day.
#2 Eat healthy.
#3 Live simpler.
#4 Keep a sense of humor.
#5 Be more pretentious.
#6 Act my age. Not!
#7 Will run no Marathon at all, not even half of one.
#8 Will stop posting on facebook when I'm drunk.
#9 Drink less beer. More wine.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
IOWA
IOWA. YOU MAKE ME SMILE.
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I got this bumper sticker from our last trip to the state of Iowa in 1998, the year we got married. I have also lived in Iowa City in the early 80's.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
50x50x50
So this past Saturday was the 365th consecutive days that I have ran at least 5K. One full year, 12 months straight, not missing a single day. I've ran roughly 96% outdoors on the roads, trails, and parks. The times that I ran indoors were mostly on the indoor track and treadmill at Bally's Total Fitness gym where I've been a member since 1998.
I've ran in snow, sleet, rain, wind, hail, heat, humidity and even a couple of tornado warnings. I learned to love the summer heat here in Georgia, I actually enjoyed running in 95 degrees weather in the middle of July as I was training or practicing for the Peachtree Road Race 10K. I've learned to pace myself and limit my runs to around 3 to 4 miles range at a comfortable 9:30 pace. My longest run ever was 10 miles. This summer I was one of 14 people out of 14,000 members of the Atlanta Track Club who completed all 14 races of the Grand Prix Series and received a Bunny Award.
My new goal is 50x50x50: Run for 50 minutes in all 50 states by the time I turn 50 years old. I have about 162 weeks left to do this.
My first ever race was a One Mile Fun Run in Puerto Rico. It was the Ramey Fun Run held on the Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 1979.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, November 06, 2011
MGBG Guide to Winter Barefoot Running
The Maple Grove Barefoot Guy: The MGBG Guide to Winter Barefoot Running: You are about to go where few of us have ever gone before. You are not crazy. Okay...yes, you are crazy. Snow was in the forecast a fe...
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