Back by popular demand Here we are December 2020 and I don’t need to make a comment on what we have all been going through thanks to the Coronavirus, the Covid 19 Pandemic. With races and track meets, and cross country events canceled I also put a hold on writing about the sport and competitions…
Author: Madeline Bost
Catching Up
I just renewed my webhosting with GoDaddy for three years. It reminded me that I have not posted anything here for nearly a month. I did a lot of indoor running in April, thanks to this strange spring. So thankful that we bought the Zero runner a few years back. Here’s to catching up. Friday,…
Governor closes the trails
Wednesday April 8, 2020 I have been so bad with logging in. I have been going out onto the WMA rail bed and up the Coyote Trail and just hiking for a lot of the time. I’ve gone on the Hidden Trail a couple times and of course that is just hiking. I really love…
Rocky went the distance
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 It is still raw out so I opted to not run outside but get back on the Zero. I needed to see how my boy Rocky was going to do. I hadn’t realized how many parallels I would find with my role model. He has to start training seriously now –…
An unlikely role model
Sunday, March 15, 2020 It looks like I am not only out of running and fitness shape, but gardening shape too. Yesterday I dug up a bunch of Daffodils and potted them up. A dozen or so pots. It requires a lot of squatting and bending. Then I remeasured and marked all the planting beds. …
Nothing is guaranteed in life, or running
Monday, March 9, The weather has turned and now in the low 50’s. I stalled around in the morning because I wanted to listen to Mark Simone who comes on at 10 am. I tried to stay on pace and I did not walk but was very slow. My goal was to get four miles…
Four weeks to Cherry Blossom
Today is Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Four weeks now until the Cherry Blossom 10K, my target race after my hospitalization in January. I hadn’t thought out my training too much. Go run and run some more. Today I went outside and ran over to Horseshoe Lake and back with about a mile and a half…
Don’t Break the Rules!
What is the irrefutable rule for coming off a lay-off? Do not overdo it. What is the most common rule disobeyed by runners coming off a lay-off? They get anxious and excited to be back in harness and they overdo it. On Sunday I skipped the “floor” exercises and gave my sore muscles a little…
Comeback
Note from Madeline: This is my first post since January 7th. As Paul Harvey used to say, “Now you know the rest of the story.” Another Comeback I was on my back on the living-room floor, a small cushion supporting my back a I tried to do scissor moves to the count of eight….
All the rest. Grand prix galore!
Albano nearly perfect A complete subset of grand prix(s) are folded into the New Balance Grand Prix. Dubbed Mini I, Mini 2, Mini 3, they match the distances in the larger grand prix. They require a minimum and a maximum of races in their series. A maximum of nine races are counted in the Mini1…