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The Week Before My First Official Run

Yes, two days ago I actually did what I’ve been planning and sort of preparing for since late March, but I’ll get to that in another post. This one is about the week before, starting on Sunday, May 8, when I walked the route I was to run, to learn it and notice slopes, turns, […]

Two Roughly Timed Runs and Maybe Back to Hordes of the Underdark?

There has been quite a lot of rain here lately, plus a fair amount of wind and even some hail, but I managed to squeeze two more runs on Saturday and Monday, despite the continued lack of a working stopwatch. Initially meant to run once more Wednesday or today at the latest, but that’d have […]

Ten and Almost Ten Kilometers, Nicusor Dan and Quest for Infamy

After wandering around the city for a while to compare some prices and get a few things last Tuesday, last week’s run was on Thursday and it was another ten kilometers, once again through the park, so three laps around the lake and then up the stairs and continuing to run all the way to […]

Over 45 Kilometers on Foot This Week

You’d think that, after running the distance of a half marathon on Tuesday and also walking about one and a half kilometers to the park and back, I’d have spent the rest of the week rather off my feet. And, in truth, that’s what I thought as well, but it sure didn’t happen, despite not […]

Covered a Half Marathon Distance in Under Two Hours!

Did something perhaps a bit crazy yesterday, but it was planned and there’s a reason for it, though I won’t get into that at the moment. What I will say is that, assuming Google Maps is right and a lap around the lake has 3.2 kilometers and the part I added at the end has […]