Friday, August 31, 2007

running

I run alot.

Lately it's been extra-alot.....weekly average is up around 35 miles, definitely uncharted territory for me. While I've been into it for some years***, I've always been limited by my legs. Or rather the litany of little aches and pains and bangs and pulls and -itises that are a normal part of a runners' world. A shin splint here, a knee tweak there, maybe a bruised toe (trails!)....after last years Seattle (half) Marathon I was hobbling for months ( I put up a kick-ass time though! Beat my goal by 4 1/2 minutes!). Currently though, I am enjoying unprecedented injury-free leg action, and I'm 90% sure it's due to yoga. Yay yoga.

I mention this because...

there are a million cool sites people have put up using google maps and other map apps. Hmmm......map apps..... I've been using this one to keep track of my mileage lately....here's my route from this morning. Thats right, I am a big enough dork that I will sit and plot out the route I've just done. Just started saving them this week, thereby upping the dork ante considerably.
















***Running is absolutely the best thing you can do if you are quitting smoking! And I should know, I've quit smoking dozens of times!

3 comments:

Arlo said...

Random question for the day Mr Finn... last summer you had some sunglasses with green lenses - do you remember who they were made by? If memory serves me correctly you had two pairs, in case you broke one of them, which I think you did... (I see you have new ones now!)

Congrats on the running, sounds pretty damn healthy!!

Finn said...

ah....very fashionable of you to notice! Modern Amusement...they have a great webstore, by the way...

Arlo said...

Cheers... I will take a look!

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