I’m disappointed in my lack of non-running fitness in week 5, but you can’t win them all. And it’ll probably be that way for the next few weeks (thanks, work.) Today is day 36 and I need to take a break. I have a kitchen to clean and bread and soup to make and laundry [...]

Got the 10k run in I was supposed to, just a day late. Wore tights and a very light long-sleeved shirt and was waaay overdressed. That’s usually not a problem in January. Not much to say about this run. It needed to get done, so it got done. Had brief shin splints around kilometre 4. [...]

I got new glasses today. I can see. They are making me nauseous My eye doctor said that’s normal, but if I still feel nauseated (see what I did there? Used the terms correctly! Grammar win!) after two weeks to come back and she’ll fix it. I’m assuming that if I multiply this by 1000, [...]

I slept badly last night. Work was exhausting today. In a good way, I’m feeling challenged creatively and working on a legitimately interesting project. But it feels like a lot sometimes. And tomorrow I have two or three hours to kill between work and a book launch. My solution? Slot my speed work in there [...]

  Snow + sleepiness meant I missed my hill training yesterday. Oops. But I’ll make up for it. This weekend is all about the work-out. And I have new tendonitis-preventing shoes! I hope they work.  

Yesterday, I felt like crap. My body’s various aches and pains were all aligned against me. So, instead of going to yoga, like I planned, I went home after work, put on pajamas and went to bed at 8pm. I blame this on a bunch of things: no yoga last week (as you can see [...]