Tag: running

I got in a good run this morning on the treadmill, a slow three miles (28:50) and followed it up with an upper-body circuit.

I’m actually a little surprised I managed such a hardcore workout given the power outage last night and the 4 a.m. wake-up call we got from the power company. That’s when the electricity returned — announced by blaring televisons, bright lights and beeping appliances. I need a nap.

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An absolutely beautiful morning for a run outside. Yes, I managed to get outside and log 3.5 miles around my neighborhood in about 32 minutes. Not a great time, but a great feeling. Onward and upward, as they say!

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I got on the treadmill today and ran three miles in 26:51 — a good run given my recent history. My only hope of regaining consistency is to post these things and ask my readers to call me on my laziness. Next run is planned for Thursday.

• Send me an e-mail.
• Read poetry at The Subterranean.
• Suburban Pastoral, a chapbook by Hank Kalet, available here.

As I wrote last week, I am not a big believer in new year’s resolutions. If you want to make a change or set a goal, there is no reason you cannot do it on May 2 or Sept. 14. The fact that so many of us opt to focus on Jan. 1 — and then abandon the goals almost as fast as they are set — seems a bit dopey.

In any case, here we are in a new year and I’m back at the running game. My goal is to run a half marathon at Rutgers in May, which means I must get my fat and sorry tuchus in gear. So far, I’ve hit the treadmill twice, running three yesterday and two today. My goal for the week is 10 miles, with two miles added every week for the next month or so. We’ll see.

Class begins again on Jan. 25 — I’m teaching at Middlesex County College twice a week — which tosses my running schedule into the air, but I have to make that commitment to get back to the kind of aggressive training I had been doing until the last year or so.

Time to get serious.

I ran again — woo hoo!! Three miles in 27:30, which is not quite rockin’, but still on a roll.